At Giving What We Can I work to support the global effective giving community and help with the development of new effective giving initiatives.
I also am the Executive Director of Impact Books.
I am committed to supporting the the effective giving ecosystem. As such I may be able to help you in the following ways:
I actually think that GWWC and AIM are exploring the possibility of setting up a new Fund which would make grants in the meta charity space (including to effective giving initiatives). It would likely have a similar focus to the meta funding circle. This is all very early stage, and there are lots of details to be worked out, but watch this space!
Happy to help if I can! Here's some more info on me and my role as Effective Giving Global Coordinator and Incubator :)
Hey Ulrik!
GWWC has this advise about 'why and how you should run a birthday fundraiser'.
I hope that helps :)
A midpoint approach (working hypothesis) could be to offer a lower standard pledge for GiveHealth (1%-5%) to appeal to a wider audience, but also mentioning the GWWC 10% Pledge in a few places and provide a link to it, similar to what AAC has done.
Normalising the 10% pledge often involves showing that others are already doing it. Therefore, it is important to ensure that when people pledge 1%, they are aware that there is a community (GWWC) that they can join, which pledges a higher amount (10%). I am very excited about this project and the potential to encourage a large number of healthcare professionals to give effectively. However, I would like to note that in GWWC's most recent impact evaluation, we found that a small but significant percentage of our Trial Pledgers have gone on to take the 10% Pledge. This likely represents the majority of the value we provide through the Trial Pledge. I believe this could also be true for people taking a GiveHealth pledge if you also were to promote a 10% pledge, although I am uncertain about this.
I also agree with Vaidehi Agarwalla's suggestion to reach out to OFTW and learn from their experience with the 1% pledge, including churn rates and other factors.
Hey GiveHeath!
I'm really excited about this new effective giving organisation - I think that you've done a really great job of capturing the heathcare vibe with the website and promotional video (simialr to how HIA captured the sporty/althlete vibes on theirs). Feels a bit like an NHS explainer video (which I think is awesome!).
My name is Luke, and I work at GWWC as the Effective Giving Global Coordinator and Incubator where I support the global effective giving community and help with the development of new effective giving initiatives. Here are a few ways that I might be able to support your project. The most relevant of which is that I would love to jump on a call with someone from the GiveHealth team to chat about ways that GWWC and the wider effective giving ecosystem can support the work that you're doing!
I'm also curious if you've been in contact with High Impact Medicine as I think they are interested in getting more involved in the effective giving space?
For a sense of what this might look like see what the GWWC research team found when they looked into how our donors’ giving is distributed across cause areas in our recent 2020-2022 impact evaluation:
*These results based on data from for both pledge and non-pledge donations, however, we analysed only donations to charities and funds for which we recorded more than $500,000 USD received over 2020–2022. See our impact evaluation for a complete picture of what the data shows.