I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
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Over the course of a year, the Fieldshaper program develops you into a field-leading grantmaker. You’ll steward $1,000,000 in grant capital, receive a $125,000 annual stipend, and deploy that capital within a sub-field of one of three key areas (farmed animals, global health, or philanthropic infrastructure); building the track record to become a grantmaker who can shape a field.
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Here are more Giving What We Can Stats linked from a thread last year
Minor suggestion: on all time donations, it would be helpful to specify the currency. I am guessing USD (with EUR or GBP as possibilities), but the raw unspecified number might look underwhelming to someone used to thinking in (say) yen.
Thanks! Should be fixed now. I think that was mostly built for internal use, so it's not polished or vetted