After a successful 2025 laying the foundations, this year we're strengthening our foundations and starting to accelerate growth towards our Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG): 1 million pledgers donating $3B USD to high-impact charities annually.

Where we are

Giving What We Can is working towards a world without preventable suffering or existential risk, where everyone is able to flourish. We do this by making giving effectively and significantly a norm among those who can afford it.

Our community of ~20,000 pledgers and donors has already given more than $500M across a range of causes, from global health to animal welfare and from climate to AI safety, and currently records ~$80M per year in donations with Giving What We Can, either by giving through our donation platform or reporting on donations for their pledge. Even only counting donations to GiveWell recommended funds and charities in global health, our community currently prevents the death of a child every three hours.

Last year, we announced our BHAG and laid the organisational foundations for building towards it. Among other things, we recruited an executive team with experience scaling similar products and organisations, grew our team from 10 to 16 core staff, set [...]

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Outline:

(00:31) Where we are

(02:20) Whats changing in 2026

(02:24) Were making the donation platform more central to our strategy

(03:41) Were making pledge fulfillment a priority

(04:41) Were doubling down on whats working while making new big bets

(05:35) What stays the same

(06:26) What we wont do

(07:24) What GWWC could look like by the end of 2028

(08:37) Get involved

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