A great way to advocate for effective giving is by sharing your effective giving story.
Giving What We Can members from all over the world have inspired thousands more people to give more effectively by sharing their stories on social media, on their own websites, on our blog, or even with major media publications.
Please let us know if you share your story so we can spread it further. We also welcome you to submit a member profile for our blog or email us a guest post for us to share on our blog.
Examples from our members
Mainstream media
If you plan to submit your story to a major media outlet we encourage you to get in touch so we can help.
- Do not know what to promise? Here you get the world's best New Year's promise by Vera Wellander Lindén on Nyheter24
- This couple lives on 6% of their income so they can give $100,000 a year to charity by William MacAskill on Quartz
- ‘I give away half to three-quarters of my income every year’ by Allan Saldanha on The Guardian
- A Lifetime Resolution: The Giving What We Can Pledge by Daniel Selwyn on The Huffington Post
- I'm Giving Away Most Of The Money I'll Ever Earn. Here's How I'm Doing It. by Toby Ord on The Huffington Post
Personal blogs
- Donate Better by Daniel Kligerman on So Good
- My new years resolution for 2021 by Nathan Golden on Medium
- My challenge for you in 2021: Do the most good you can by Jesper Cockx on jesper.sikanda.be
- The Thing You Can Change by Jai Dhyani on Almost No One is Evil. Almost Everything is Broken.
- Giving what we can by David Charles on DavidCharles.info
- Why I Pledged by Julia Wise on Giving Gladly
- How I became an aspiring effective altruist by Catherine Low on Jug Half Empty
- Giving what I can by Matthew Allcock on MatthewAllcock.co.uk
- A New Year's Cure for the Spleen: Giving What We Can by Erwan Atcheson on Medium
- Why I’ve taken the Giving What We Can pledge by Max Ghenis on Medium
- We Should Tithe More! (and where I’m personally giving 20% of my income) by Rhys Lindmark on Medium
- Why I became an effective altruist by Michael Dello-Iacovo on MichaelDello.com
- Giving What We Can by Richard Chappell on Philosophy, et cetera
- Making a Difference by Alison Streete on Sinesalvatorem
- Nobody is Perfect, Everything is Commensurable by on Slate Star Codex
- As some of you know, I've pledged by Kelsey Piper on The Unit of Caring
- We Can Be Heroes by Ozy Brennan on Things of Things
- Giving what we can by Sophia Cheng on With Many Roots
- My giving story by Boris Yakubchik on yBoris.com
Forum posts
- How the Giving What We Can pledge event has inspired me to action in 2016 by Chris Watkins on EA Forum
- EA is the best choice I've ever made by Peter Hurford on EA Forum
- Why I Took the Giving What We Can Pledge by Peter Hurford on EA Forum
- How big a deal could GWWC be? Pretty big. by Rob Wiblin on EA Forum
Guest posts on our blog
- Confessions of a Giving What We Can member - how the pledge saves lives by Ahimza Thirunavukarasu
- Why I am taking the pledge this New Year's by Ali Ladak
- Why I give by Boris Yakubchik
- Becoming an effective altruist by Coralie Oddy
- Why I not only give what I can but also campaign for Giving What We Can by d'Arcy Lunn
- Why I finally took the pledge by Kat Steiner
- Why I Give: Lee Bishop by Lee Bishop
- My Journey to Taking the Giving What We Can Pledge by Mark Barnes
- Difficult decisions: How I'm using my life to help others by Parmeet Shah
- Why I joined Giving What We Can as a student by Sashika Coxhead
- Why I Give by Zoe Savitsky
Member profiles on our blog
- Alexandra Berlina
- Pippa Gilbert
- Michael Aird
- Catherine Thomas
- Pablo Ollier
- Heather McLaughlin
- Arvind Raghavan
- Insa Männel
- Jo Duyvestyn
- Mathias Kirk Bonde
- Catherine Low
Social media & forums
Facebook posts
Example Facebook post after taking the pledge from David Kile:
Example Facebook post on a pledge anniversaries Alex Rattee and Luke Freeman
Example Facebook post around the new year from Daniel Thomas:
LinkedIn or Facebook profile
Example LinkedIn profile:
Twitter Post
Example twitter post thread from @sleepinyourhat:
Example Twitter post when the pledge certificate arrives from @sritchie
Reddit posts
Example Reddit post from larissa_24joy:
Instagram posts
Example Instagram post celebrating 5 year anniversary from Adam Lapthorn
Forum posts
Example on OzBargain Forum from Waldo000000:
