How does one plan for death as an effective altruist?

By zenc @ 2026-07-19T06:22 (+7)

I may or may not have dreamt this, but I thought there existed a useful post on the forum about how to write a will as an EA so that your money goes to the most effective charities in the world upon death. For the life of me, I can't find this post now (pun unintended), so if anyone remembers this post or is able to point folks interested in this question to resources on the subject - I would really appreciate it.

Lorenzo Fong Ponce 🔸 @ 2026-07-19T17:51 (+5)

Hey zenc!

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yfpGTWTry9e5pDX4y/have-you-written-a-will-involving-a-bequest-to-charity-do

Includes:

a past initiative from Joey Savoie a decade ago before he founded Ambitious Impact (now defunct)
A GenerationPledge website for ultra high net worth inheritors (now just some Google Slides, but seems updated as of 2026!)
UK-specific resources from Giving What We Can
Survey-style questions from the OP in the comments.

Another guide from 2014 with several defunct links here.

State of the art today (for now): most Effective Giving Organisations have a "Bequests / Last Wills" webpage. To my knowledge there is no "effective giving online will generator" platform (yet).

Current people I'm aware of that are doing this at or above ~0.1 FTE is Anne Schulze (Effektiv Spenden co founder), Fianna Nieuwenstein (Senior Comms professional at Doneer Effectief).

There are other players who have WIP products but I'm unclear to the extent I can disclose here. I am personally extremely interested in this question and overall subject. We should DM