Giving What We Can is making giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm - and raising a lot of funds for highly effective charities.

We're currently seeking funding to continue our work and ensure that we can inspire many more people to give effectively in the future. In 2024, we're hoping to hit 10,000 lifetime pledges.

At Giving We We Can, we encourage people to give more and give better.

Give more: We encourage people to pledge to give at least 10% of their income until the day they retire.
Give better: We provide a donation platform that makes it easy for people to donate to our recommended high-impact charities.

Over 8,500 people have taken the Giving What We Can Pledge to donate at least 10% of their income, and have collectively donated over $300 million. By 2030, we want to get to 100,000 pledgers and well over $1 billion of donations. Our ultimate mission is to make donating at least 10%, as effectively as possible, the global norm. We do this in three key ways:

Our pledge: which has inspired a movement of donors to give more significantly, more sustainably, & more effectively.
Our expertise: which helps donors to give more effectively across a diversity of causes and worldviews.
Our donation platform: which makes effective giving easy & accessible for half a billion people on our expanding list of countries (more coming in 2024!).

Our audience

We believe that many people are in a position to do a lot of good by giving effectively. We aim to change the norms around giving, encouraging people to be more impactful and generous.

Our pitch

A decade of charity research has revealed something huge:

The best charitable interventions often have 100x more impact per dollar than average ones

At GWWC, we help donors find those opportunities (leveraging thousands of hours of research) & make them easy to donate to via our donation platform.

Our impact

From 2020 to 2022, we estimate that we caused $45 million to go to charity. Once we account for the value of new pledge commitments, we estimate we generated $62 million in value.

These figures are our best guess of how much we caused to go to highly effective charities—they don't count money that would have been given anyway or money given to charities we aren't sure are effective.

The monetary impact of GWWC is best documented in our most recent Impact Evaluation, which suggests tha...

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