All of Giving What We Can🔸's Comments + Replies

In honor of Pledge Highlight Week, here’s a list of some resources we recommend for people who are considering taking a pledge.

Articles/FAQ related to pledging

Why pledge (even if you already donate)

5 things you’ve got wrong about the Giving What We Can Pledge

Can money buy happiness? A review of the data (newly updated!)

Pledge FAQ

Videos featuring @Luke Freeman 🔸 :

Why make a public giving pledge? 

How change happens 

How much to donate to charity: Finding a good standard for giving

Pledgers sharing their experience

Case studies page

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Was it Bullet Journal???

GWWC Anniversary Week Update:

We're in the middle of celebrating Giving What We Can and the 10% Pledge's 15th anniversary! Thanks to everyone who has posted their thoughts, pledge stories, or hopes for the future on social so far and/or contributed to our EA Forum thread.

We've also been posting pledge-focused content on our blog all week (and a bit before) and wanted to highlight a couple great posts to check out:

-The "Progressive Pledge" by Phillip Popien and Alana HF (a unique way to gradually increase your pledge percentage that takes into acco... (read more)

The project is continuing to hibernate for 2023!

Giving What We Can is also happy to sponsor donations for participants who'd like to do a giving game! Generally $10 or $20 for each adult! More info: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/en-US/events/guides/giving-games

We also offer a trial pledge where you can pledge 1%-10% of income for a custom length of time, so you can see how pledging and giving feels!

That's so nice to hear :)

Welcome to the community and please feel free to reach out if we can help you at all! - Grace

Who is your favourite GWWC team member? :)

Photo of where Grace is a Weavers Fields Playground (on the facebook event) if you like to join before we go to Newspeak House just before 12.30: https://www.facebook.com/events/178963095069220/?active_tab=discussion 

Don't forget this event is today! Grace from the team will be at Weavers Field playground from 11.30am in case anyone wants to bring their kids! and then at Newspeak house from 12.30!

Don't forget to bring something to eat

Hi Ben,

The donor lottery should be run again at the end of 2023.

As far as we're aware this is the only donor lottery occurring. 

And yes, the GWWC team took over the donor lottery from EA Funds at the end of 2021.

Thanks,

Grace

Update: The 2022 Donor Lottery has been drawn!

The draw for the donor lottery took place on January 24th and no winner was drawn for all 3 lotteries - meaning that the ‘benefactor’ was selected.

View the draws here:
$2M lottery: No winner
$500K lottery: No winner
$100K lottery: No winner

This means that the funds will stay in the pot and will have the chance to be won in the next lottery.

This year, there was a high chance that the ‘benefactor’ would have won each of the lotteries and this is what occurred. The probability ranged from 74% for the $100K to 96.6% f... (read more)

I've added a bunch of Giving What We Can's videos under the different sections of your list! 

We've had feedback from group leaders in the past that some of our videos have been helpful for introductory content for their groups. - Grace

Also between FB, LinkedIn and EA Forum about ~1000 people have responded to the event!

We already have a bunch of community members involved in the main event (they'll be sharing about their giving onscreen) but there will be a chance for everyone to discuss during the gathertown event afterwards!

We'll also be prompting people to let us know in the chat during the YouTube event!

It's unclear to me when the match will begin exactly. In the past the match has started in Eastern Time - so I would assume ET is when the match will begin but this could be inaccurate.

Thanks Will! Just want to publicly acknowledge that we'd like to chat with you more about it.

I agree that there's still a chance for EAs to shift a good amount to effective charities through the match, but I think in general there's less of a need for the level of coordination than previously.

Looking forward to seeing what we can work out together! - Grace

Yes, we think that's right. We've just quoted directly from Meta above about the match. 

We're also trying to seek clarification about some thing from Meta but they are unlikely to respond based on past experience.

Hi Tyler, I saw your email but I'm just having some technical issues responding via the tech stack we have set up at the moment, am hoping to resolve very soon! It looks like Giving Multiplier aren't current set up to receive donations via Facebook so this would mean that we can't include them for now - if they get this set up, then we would be happy to include them. 

Sorry for the delay in responding, I'm working on this project on top of my normal work for GWWC and this is already the busiest period of the year for me.

-Grace

Hi Kevin, we'd probably be able to arrange for someone to speak if there was an audience of 10 or more! Obviously the bigger the better :) Or we could try and combine several smaller groups for a virtual event!