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Want to advocate for effective giving but don’t know how? This giving season from December 1 (Giving Tuesday) through to January 1 (New Years Day) we’ll be running an Effective Giving Advocacy Challenge alongside our Pledge Drive. Sign up and we’ll email you with a small action you can take each day to make a difference this giving season!

Do you have a burning question about effective giving, pledging to give, Giving What We Can, or effective altruism? Want to make a suggestion or discuss an idea? Just keen to meet others interested in effective giving?

If I told you to imagine a member of the top 1 percent in your head, what would they look like?

Companies pledge to give at least ten percent of their profits to effective charities, following the lead of the Giving What We Can community.

"I like the idea that people will give together. I hope the pledge will start to build that social norm"

Yesterday we reached 5,000 members who have pledged to give at least 10% of their lifetime earnings! Read more about this milestone, watch the video message from our founders & members, and join us this weekend to celebrate! This edition includes information about our 5,000 member celebration events; updates from Giving What We Can, EA Funds, Open Philanthropy, GiveWell and Charity Entrepreneurship; a selection of interesting articles; upcoming events you can join; and some ways you can help.

Today we reached a major milestone. More than 5,000 people have pledged to give at least ten percent of their lifetime earnings to effective charities.

"I think that people unfamiliar with giving not only miss out on the positive impact that we can have on the lives of others, but also the positive impact on ourselves. There is a strong satisfaction in doing what you think is good!"

To celebrate reaching 5,000 members we are organising a huge global hangout day (in person and online) on the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of October, 2020. Here’s how it’s going to work...

Join us on the 5th or 6th of September for one of our online meetups. Our special guests are Karolina Sarek and Lewis Bollard from the EA Animal Welfare Fund.