“Announcing our 2025 strategy” by Giving What We Can

We are excited to share a summary of our 2025 strategy, which builds on our work in 2024 and provides a vision through 2027 and beyond!

Background

Giving What We Can (GWWC) is working towards a world without preventable suffering or existential risk, where everyone is able to flourish. We do this by making giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm.

Focus on pledges

Based on our last impact evaluation[1], we have made our pledges – and in particular the 🔸10% Pledge – the core focus of GWWC's work.[2] We know the 🔸10% Pledge is a powerful institution, as we’ve seen almost 10,000 people take it and give nearly $50M USD to high-impact charities annually. We believe it could become a norm among at least the richest 1% — and likely a much wider segment of the population — which would cumulatively direct an enormous quantity of financial resources [...]

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Outline:

(00:20) Background

(00:37) Focus on pledges

(01:29) Introducing our BHAG

(02:10) Working towards our BHAG

(03:01) Laying the foundations for scalable growth

(03:55) Looking towards the future

(04:18) BHAG FAQ:

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First published:

April 10th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aPFGarxoS8pvboKFD/announcing-our-2025-strategy

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