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Earning to Give (EtG) Pledge Club
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This post is tangential to AI safety but relevant to EA community infrastructure; it documents a short-lived GWWC initiative around career and giving norms for high earners, now discontinued.
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Giving What We Can launched an exploratory Earning to Give Pledge Club to identify and support a community of high earners donating 20%+ of income to high-impact charities. The project aimed to determine whether dedicated community infrastructure could benefit EtGers, but was discontinued in April 2025 as GWWC refocused strategic priorities, with CEA potentially filling the gap.
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- •EtG is defined as deliberately pursuing high-paying morally neutral jobs to donate 20%+ of income to high-impact charities.
- •GWWC's 10% Pledge is explicitly not exclusive to EtGers; EtG represents a distinct, more intensive subset of the pledger community.
- •The Pledge Club initiative sought to map who EtGers are, what they need, and whether community-building could add value.
- •GWWC discontinued the project in April 2025 due to strategic refocusing, not lack of perceived value, and is seeking others to continue it.
- •CEA indicated potential interest in filling the EtG community-building gap directly or indirectly.
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by Luke Moore 🔸 Dec 10 2024 3 min read 8 113
Building effective altruism Career choice Community Effective giving Earning to give Announcements and updates Donation pledge Giving What We Can Frontpage Earning to Give (EtG) Pledge Club What do we mean by EtG? Launching the EtG Pledge Club 8 comments Edit (22 April 2025): After careful consideration we have decided to discontinue our investigation into whether there’s some value in (someone) building a community for those in the earning to give (EtG) space and to close down the EtG Pledge Club.
At GWWC, we’ve recently made the difficult decision to retire a number of initiatives in order to focus our attention on our ambitious new strategy .
We still believe in the impact potential of this project. Our decision doesn’t reflect a lack of perceived value, but rather our need to focus at this juncture of GWWC's development. Thus, we are actively looking for organisations and individuals interested in taking on this project. If that’s you, please do reach out. Note: CEA have indicated to us that they might be interested in filling this gap directly or indirectly (see their most recent strategy post ).
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In my capacity as Effective Giving Global Coordinator and Incubator at Giving What We Can (GWWC) I’m currently exploring whether there’s some value in (someone) building a community for those in the earning to give (EtG) space—specifically, whether there is scope for GWWC or another organisation to incubate a project of some kind that’s genuinely useful here (I'm aware that there might be some initial funding available for a new project). The key questions we’re trying to answer are: Who is out there? What do EtGers need? And is there a community-building project that could offer real value? My next step in this exploration is identifying EtGers who are interested in this among GWWC’s community of pledgers.
A note of clarification: Outside of the EA community, the 10% Pledge is often misinterpreted as being targeted directly and/or exclusively at people who are earning to give. We wish to explicitly clarify that this is not the case. Rather, the Pledge is aimed at anyone with any career who can afford to give a portion of their earnings to high-impact charities (and we think that’s most people earning an average salary in a high-income country – hence, our mission of creating a cultural norm).
What do we mean by EtG?
We define earning to give as people who are deliberately pursuing high-paying (but morally positive or neutral) jobs with the aim of giving much more than ten percent of their income to high-impact charities. Our current proposal (given some o
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