Giving What We Can - Wikipedia

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 Nonprofit organization that promotes effective giving 
 

 Giving What We Can Abbreviation GWWC Formation 2009 &#59; 17 years ago  ( 2009 ) Founders 
 Toby Ord 

 Bernadette Young

 William MacAskill 
 
 Founded at Oxford , England Type Charity Registration no. 1207964 (UK) Purpose Promoting effective giving Membership 8,983 (2024) President Toby Ord Website www .givingwhatwecan .org 
 Giving What We Can ( GWWC ) is an effective altruism nonprofit that promotes effective giving through education, outreach, and advocacy around the 10% Pledge, which encourages members to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities. [ 1 ] It was founded at Oxford University in 2009 by philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill . [ 2 ] 

 
 History

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 Toby Ord is one of the founders of Giving What We Can. 
 Giving What We Can was launched as a giving society with 23 members [ 3 ] in 2009 by Toby Ord , an ethics researcher at Oxford , his wife Bernadette Young, a physician in training at the time, and fellow ethicist William MacAskill [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 2 ] with the goal of encouraging people to give at least 10% of income over the course of their working life to alleviate world poverty. [ 6 ] This is similar to Ma'aser kesafim in Jewish tradition and zakat [ 7 ] in Islam, but Ord said there was no religious motivation behind it. [ 8 ] Ord cited writings from Peter Singer and Thomas Pogge about one's moral duty to give to the poor as inspiration for starting the organisation, [ 9 ] and personally planned to give away everything above about $28,000 a year, the median after-tax salary in the U.K. [ 3 ] His focus was on donations to charities which saved a maximal amount of life per donation amount. [ 10 ] 

 In 2011, a sister organisation at Oxford led by MacAskill and others called "High Impact Careers", soon after renamed to 80,000 Hours ., [ 11 ] was spun off from Giving What We Can. In 2012 both organisations incorporated the Centre for Effective Altruism as a nonprofit to serve as an umbrella organisation. [ 5 ] [ 12 ] In 2024, Giving What We Can became its own legal entity, and is no longer part of the Centre for Effective Altruism or Effective Ventures Foundation. [ 13 ] 

 Giving What We Can began providing regular reports on what charities were most effective at addressing poverty in the developing world, using research conducted by GiveWell along with the concept of the quality-adjusted life-year, [ 14 ] as early as 2011. It no longer focuses only on global health, recommending research-backed charities in several cause areas including global poverty a

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