Giving What We CanMission: We believe that people in the developed world have an amazing opportunity to substantially improve the lives of countless people at the other end of the global income scale. Our members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to the organisations which can do the most good with their donations to help people in developing countries. We use evidence to identify those organisations and share our findings. By forming a global community and making public our commitment to effective giving, we can inspire others and ensure that we make a real impact on global poverty. Brief: The society stemmed from the ideas of a moral philosopher Dr Toby Ord , who founded Giving What We Can in 2009 after four years of planning and discussion. During his studies at Oxford, Ord found out just how much he could help the world by simply donating his money: "I discovered that by donating most of my future income to the most efficient charities, I could save around 500 lives. Since I already had most of the things I value in life on my student stipend, I realised that my money would do vastly more good for others than it could for me and decided to make a commitment to donating to the most effective charities I could find. Many people contacted me asking how they could do this as well, and so I set up Giving What We Can." Giving What We Can now has hundreds of members and over $100 million dollars pledged to some of the most effective charities. This will make a huge difference to the state of global poverty. |