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'''Giving What We Can''' ('''GWWC''') is a community and charity evaluator that advocates for people to make significant donations (typically 10% of income) to the most cost-effective causes and charities. |
'''Giving What We Can''' ('''GWWC''') is a community and charity evaluator that advocates for people to make significant donations (typically 10% of income) to the most cost-effective causes and charities. |
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Founded by [[moral philosophy|moral philosopher]] [[Toby Ord]] in November 2009, Giving What We Can aims to encourage people to commit to long-term donation to the organisations that will do the most good.<ref name=wsj2011>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204528204577010061347756838|title = Small Sacrifice, Big Return|last = Espinoza|first = Javier|authorlink = Javier Espinoza|date = November 28, 2011|accessdate = March 12, 2014|publisher = ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''}}</ref> Giving What We Can conducts extensive research into the [[Effective altruism|effectiveness]] of various charities, and provides a list of those it most highly recommends. Currently this includes charities that work to treat [[Neglected tropical diseases|neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)]], [[micronutrient deficiencies|Micronutrient deficiency]], and [[malaria]], although the Giving What We Can Pledge is cause-neutral, and members can donate to other charities provided they have good reason to think they are more effective. |
Founded by [[moral philosophy|moral philosopher]] [[Toby Ord]] in November 2009, Giving What We Can aims to encourage people to commit to long-term donation to the organisations that will do the most good.<ref name=wsj2011>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204528204577010061347756838|title = Small Sacrifice, Big Return|last = Espinoza|first = Javier|authorlink = Javier Espinoza|date = November 28, 2011|accessdate = March 12, 2014|publisher = ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''}}</ref> Giving What We Can conducts extensive research into the [[Effective altruism|effectiveness]] of various charities, and provides a list of those it most highly recommends. Currently this includes charities that work to treat [[Neglected tropical diseases|neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)]], [[micronutrient deficiencies|Micronutrient deficiency]], and [[malaria]], although the Giving What We Can Pledge is cause-neutral, and members can donate to other charities provided they have good reason to think they are more effective. |
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==History== |
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| Founded | 14 November 2009 |
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| Founder | Toby Ord |
| Focus | Effective altruism, charity evaluation, pledges, poverty relief |
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| Origins | Oxford, England |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Method | Members donate 10% of income to effective charities |
Members | 2359[1] |
Key people | Toby Ord (founder and president) William MacAskill (co-founder) Michelle Hutchinson (executive director) Sam Deere (president) |
Employees | 8 |
| Website | www |
Giving What We Can (GWWC) is a community and charity evaluator that advocates for people to make significant donations (typically 10% of income) to the most cost-effective causes and charities.
Founded by moral philosopher Toby Ord in November 2009, Giving What We Can aims to encourage people to commit to long-term donation to the organisations that will do the most good.[2] Giving What We Can conducts extensive research into the effectiveness of various charities, and provides a list of those it most highly recommends. Currently this includes charities that work to treat neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), Micronutrient deficiency, and malaria, although the Giving What We Can Pledge is cause-neutral, and members can donate to other charities provided they have good reason to think they are more effective.
History
Giving What We Can was founded as a giving society in 2009 by Toby Ord (an ethics researcher at Oxford University) and his wife Bernadette Young (a physician) with the goal of encouraging people to give 10% of their income on a regular basis to alleviate world poverty; it was launched with 23 members and by 2011 had about 167 members, mostly other academics.[2] Ord cited writings from Peter Singer and Thomas Pogge about one's moral duty to give to the poor as inspiration for starting the organization.[3]
Methodology
Giving What We Can differs from other charity evaluators in terms of the importance they give to metrics such as administrative overhead. While charity evaluators such as Charity Navigator use the fraction of donations spent on program expenses versus administrative overhead as an important indicator, Giving What We Can focuses on the measure of quality-adjusted life years per unit money. Giving What We Can's position on this matter is similar to that of some other charity evaluators such as GiveWell.
According to GWWC, the variance in cost-effectiveness of charities arises largely due to the variance in the nature of the causes that the charities operate in. For this reason, GWWC focuses mostly on charities that work in the areas that that they consider the most likely to have high impact.
Therefore we believe that charity evaluation should start with the big picture, comparing different areas such as health, education and emergency aid to determine which of these are the most promising. After that, you can compare more promising sub-areas (such as malaria or HIV/AIDS treatment, within health) and then the programmes available in those sub-areas (such as bednets and antimalarials, for malaria). Finally, we compare particular charities which carry out the best programmes (such as Against Malaria Foundation).
Giving What We Can uses an expected value (or expected utility) framework when evaluating and comparing charities. It focuses on disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) as a measure of the good done by charities. It is similar to the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) with some small differences in accounting methods.
To conduct this research, Giving What We Can surveys publications from general academic literature as well as primary data from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP2) report published by the Disease Control Priorities Project, the WHO-CHOICE guide published by the World Health Organization, and the work of charity evaluator GiveWell. In addition, Giving What We Can actively conducts its own research.
Giving What We Can also focuses on the question of room for more funding, which describes what additional donations to a charity will accomplish.
Charity recommendations
This information is combined into detailed evaluations and case studies of top-rated recommended charities and analyses and evaluations of various causes. Examples include evaluations of Against Malaria Foundation, and their case study of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative.
Until May 2013, GWWC had three top charities, all of them operating in the domain of global health: Against Malaria Foundation (malaria bednets), Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, and Deworm the World Initiative. On May 16, 2013, GWWC announced the addition of a fourth charity, Project Healthy Children (focused on food fortification) and also restructured its list of top charities: it labeled AMF and SCI as established organizations and labeled DtWI and PHC as promising organizations. The list was re-affirmed in December 2014.As of November 2015, it continues to be GWWC's official list of top charities.
Pledges
Pledge to Give
In November 2009, Giving What We Can founder Toby Ord received significant media attention when he made a personal pledge to donate at least 10% of his income for the rest of his working life to combat poverty.[4][5][6] Ord founded Giving What We Can as a society of like-minded donors who chose to take similar pledges, gaining sixty members within a year.[7] The group has since expanded with a larger international presence[8] and surpassed 1,000 members in 2015.[9]
The purposes of the pledge are to:
- Establish a lifestyle that accommodates a high level of charitable giving, ensuring that the individual's donations are manageable and sustainable, whilst being enough to make a significant difference
- Make a personal and public commitment to maintain this level of donation
- Publicly demonstrate support for combating poverty by using the most effective means
Criticism
The charity comparison organisation GiveWell has critiqued the use of DALYs to compare charities[10] and the high regard these estimates give to neglected tropical diseases.[11]
A debate article in Ceasefire Magazine, between a GWWC representative and a critic, contained a range of criticisms of the charity. Criticisms were centered on what was described as "[t]he hollowness of paying others to push for structural change" which "is resounding and fundamentally misapprehends collective struggle", and an alternative method was posited: "sustained collective mobilizations against the structures and social relations of capitalism that underpin global poverty."[12]
See also
External links
References
- ^ "Our Members Have Done Some Amazing Things". Giving What We Can. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ^ a b Espinoza, Javier (November 28, 2011). "Small Sacrifice, Big Return". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Gill, Martha (January 8, 2013). "The man who gives away a third of his income. Would you give up a luxury to save a life?". New Statesman. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Richard Woods (2009-11-15). "Take My Money, I Don't Want It". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ^ "Academic pledges to give away £1m". BBC. 2009-11-14.
- ^ "Oxford academic Toby Ord gives salary to charity". BBC News. December 8, 2010. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
- ^ Woods, Richard (November 28, 2010). "C'mon, take more of my money, says Oxford don. A charitable society set up by philosopher Toby Ord has amassed £13m in pledges, and he will increase the money he gives away". The Sunday Times. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Hellen, Nicholas (December 9, 2012). "Oxford don sparks flood of charity cash". The Sunday Times. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "1000 people match Oxford philosopher's '10% of future income' charity pledge". University of Oxford. 15 July 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Cost-effectiveness estimates: inside the sausage factory". GiveWell. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ "Neglected Tropical Disease charities: Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Deworm The World". GiveWell. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ "Helping the poor…by getting rich: ingenious or delusional?". Ceasefire Magazine. Retrieved 2012-03-24.