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“GoodWallet: Scaling Effective Giving Through Everyday Payments” by Patrick Mayerhofer 🔸


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We’re building a frictionless way to turn everyday transactions into donations to the world's most effective charities, and we’re seeking funding and partners to accelerate our growth.

GoodWallet: Making Effective Giving Frictionless

We’re building GoodWallet, a digital wallet that makes donating to high-impact charities as simple and seamless as sending money to a friend. Our simple, flexible design supports a wide range of real-world uses, such as repayments between friends, tips for creators, business payments, and peer-to-peer fundraising. By embedding effective giving into everyday financial flows, we aim to unlock new counterfactual donations and introduce more people to the principles of effective altruism.

For more on our functionality and vision, see our last post from July:
🔗 GoodWallet: Turning Everyday Repayments into High-Impact Donations

Since launching in May 2025, we’ve grown to 150+ early users, processed $1,500+ in donations, and secured conditional 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsorship with SparkWell, allowing us [...]


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Outline:

(00:22) GoodWallet: Making Effective Giving Frictionless

(01:33) The Core Team that Got Us Here

(02:24) How We Would Use Funding

(03:54) Our Theory of Change

(04:20) Please Reach Out

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First published:

September 25th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kDzxEfLqQz9EjA7um/goodwallet-scaling-effective-giving-through-everyday

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