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How to Keep Your Pledge (8)
Strategy 8: Donate on pay day It's pretty tough to make a donation when there's no money in the bank. Match your pledge to your cash…
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Does Aid Work?
This is a guest post by Matt Sharp, President of Giving What We Can: York. Does aid work? Some authors argue yes, and we should give…
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The Buffett Family Teach Effective Philanthropy…But Only Score 5/10 Themselves (1)
Today my homework for Doris Buffett’s Giving With Purpose course is due in. Instead, I submit this blog post. I am one of 10,000 people taking…
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How to Keep Your Pledge (7)
Strategy 7: Give away your raise When you get a pay raise, the impulse is to increase your standard of living. A bigger paycheck each month…
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Strategy 6: Bring your friends Call it what you will - peer pressure, herd mentality, in-group conformity - we humans tend to behave like our friends.…
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How to Keep Your Pledge (5)
Strategy 5: Advertise to yourself Everyday we are surrounded by advertisements trying to influence how we spend our money, but only a tiny fraction of that…
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The Centre for Effective Altruism’s Weekend Away in Wales
CEA ran a Weekend Away in a Welsh castle last weekend for 60 people from the four charities they have launched – Giving What We Can,…
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How to Keep Your Pledge (4)
Strategy 4: Taxes, taxes, taxes If you don't trust your government to spend money wisely, and you live in a country where charitable donations are tax-deductible,…
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How to Keep Your Pledge (3)
Strategy 3: Make it automatic It’s easy to set up recurring donations to the effective charity of your choice (thanks technology!). Calculate the monthly or quarterly…
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How to Keep Your Pledge (2)
Strategy 2: Save If you’re a natural saver, you’ll enjoy looking for ways to cut costs from your lifestyle. Bring your lunch to work, skip those…
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How to Keep Your Pledge (1)
Strategy 1: Match your luxury spending This was the most effective strategy for me when I first started giving. For some reason, $20 given away felt…
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Effective Altruism Summit: Day 7
I have become nocturnal. I couldn't get to sleep on the night of Day 6, I slept through all of the sessions on Day 7, then…