GIVING WHAT WE CAN USA INC
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Mission Statement
Giving What We Can is on a mission tocreate a world in which givingeffectively and significantly is a cultural norm. We believe that charitable donations can do an astonishing amount of good. However, because theeffectiveness of different charities varies wildly, it is important that we donate to the most effective charitiesif we want to have a significant impact. Our community of donors is building a world that's better for all its inhabitants for generations to come.
About This Cause
Giving What We Can is focused on three main areas of work: 1. Ourpledges, which inspire a global community of donors to give more significantly, more sustainably and more effectively. 2. Ouradvice, which helps donors to give effectively and guides them to high-impact giving opportunities across a diversity of worldviews. 3. Ourdonation platform, which makes effective giving easy and widely accessible across multiple countries Additionally, we support and provide coordination for the broader effective giving ecosystem, including by making our products available to other effective giving organisations, coordinating within the ecosystem, and helping incubate new projects to fill pressing gaps. Our research and grantmaking focuses on three broad cause areas: 1. Global health and wellbeing. Millions of people die each year from preventable and curable diseases, including approximately 15,000 children every single day. These deaths (and the considerable suffering caused by these types of disease) can be prevented with proven treatments and techniques — that’s why we’ve eradicated these diseases in higher-income countries. The organisations implementing these interventions in lower-income countries, however, are perpetually underfunded. The best charities for global health and wellbeing tend to operate programmes with a strong evidence base behind them and a proven track record of success. They — quite literally — save and improve lives. 2. Animal welfare. Despite widespread awareness of animal suffering, only about 3% of US charitable contributions support animals and the environment. Farmed animals are even more neglected, receiving only 0.03% of all US charitable donations. Yet farmed animals experience the overwhelming majority of human-inflicted animal suffering. They live lives filled with extreme physical and emotional distress — and in the US alone, over one million land animals are slaughtered every hour. The best charities for animal welfare tend to operate programmes that are large in scale and tractable — they could reduce or eliminate the suffering of many, many animals through changes in policy, legislation, and consumer choices. 3. Reducing global catastrophic risks. Pandemics. Rogue AI. Nuclear catastrophe. Some of these threats may be more likely than we imagine — and with the wrong dice roll, could endanger the future of not only everyone alive today, but everyone who could ever live. Despite the enormous scale of these threats, research and initiatives to prevent them are still relatively limited. While interventions in this area aren’t always as tractable as in other areas, the threats are so large that it could be incredibly impactful to fund projects that give us a better chance at preventing them. The best giving options for reducing global catastrophic risks are funds that support promising projects to improve nuclear and biosecurity, prevent pandemics, and promote beneficial AI. (Because the field is developing so rapidly and the impact of interventions is harder to measure than in other areas, the expertise and context of specialised grantmakers are even more valuable when supporting this type of work.) Our latest recommendations are available at our best charities page: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/best-charities