Giving What We Can, a popular charity vehicle for those interested in Effective Altruism or who are EA-adjacent, tried to reach 10,000 pledgers to it's "10% pledge", but it came up a little short.
They look poised to reach the 10k mark this year, and well before year's end by conservative estimates. By when will this happen?
Current Number (as of this question's creation) is 9,516! This can be seen here: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/members
This question will resolve when the above page lists over 10,000 members, or any of Giving What We Can's social's (Twitter/X, E-mail, etc.) announce they have reached the 10,000 mark.
I may occasionally comment updates here as well.
Update 2025-12-01 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - Active pledge count on the website will be used to determine when Giving What We Can reaches 10,000 members.
Confirmation will also be sought through official social media announcements.
This AI summary has been FACT CHECKED BY REAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS! TRUE!!!!
1,000I will add additional months if we get to August and it still looks like they're not going to reach the goal. I added September now. @traders
Hey, @traders I noticed a small discrepancy on the website page. There were two different numbers, about 200 apart (see below)
The second list was said to be 'those who had made 10% pledge or more' so I tweeted at GWWC to ask for clarity and they said that the top image was a counter of 'active' pledges. In other words, some people in the lower count, had resigned from their pledge.
I will be using the number on the TOP screenshot to determine when they hit 10,000. and if announcements are made on social media I will check it to corroborate.
sorry for the ping. Have a great week!
Current pledge number is 9,532! an increase of 16 in just about a week.