Giving What We Can July 2022 Newsletter

By Giving What We Can @ 2022-07-29T18:35 (+8)

This is a linkpost to https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/blog/july-newsletter-2022

Earlier this month, we sent an announcement to our Giving What We Can Pledge members about our new pledge pin. This pin will be given to all Giving What We Can Pledge members who have been pledgers for over a year and are on track with their donations.

It’s an honour to be a part of a community that cares deeply about giving and improving the world, and this is a small way for us to thank our members for displaying an ongoing commitment to their pledge.

Here’s the full pledge pin announcement along with some FAQs.
 

2021 Giving Review

We’ve launched our yearly Giving Review and have been collecting data about the donations our community made in 2021.

If you could spend 5 minutes reporting your donations before the 31st July, please do so. It helps us measure our impact and hopefully provide better experiences for our members in the future.

Yes, your donations matter!

In the wake of Bill Gates’ announcement about upping the spending of the Gates Foundation, some of us may feel that our relatively small, individual donations don’t matter.

We’d like to remind you that although your contribution may feel like a drop in the bucket, it means quite a lot to the people, animals and planet it benefits.

By giving effectively, you are part of a community of donors who — together — are drastically increasing the size of that drop, making a meaningful, concrete difference to the lives of others and helping to normalise giving to those who need it. That’s incredibly important, because even with generous donations from large philanthropists, there's much more to be done.

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Until next time, keep doing good!

-Luke Freeman & the rest of the Giving What We Can team

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Member Daryl D'Souza started a new job and shared a donation publicly with his network!
Congratulate Daryl on his new job and his advocacy here

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Americas/Oceania

The meetups team is hosting an EA Forum “Show and Tell.” Come and tell us about a forum post that you found interesting, didn’t agree with, didn’t understand, want to learn more about, etc., and we’ll discuss it together! Feel free to choose any post (old or new) on any topic or cause. Just come along and we can spend some time learning something new or debating something fun!

Europe/Asia

Tony Senanayake from IDInsight will join this session to answer some Q&A about his work with multiple organisations in the global health and development sector. Tony is a goldmine of knowledge and this is sure to be a fascinating discussion.

Open Forum

Our open forum is an event where you can come along with questions about effective giving and/or to meet others interested in effective giving. This event alternates between different timezones each month.
 

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