Effective Altruism

Movement·Founded 2011 CE·No adherent count is meaningful. The nearest hard number is the Giving What We Can register: 11,153 people from 118 countries have taken the 10% pledge, with a further 1,601 on time-limited trial pledges.

Effective Altruism

The Centre for Effective AltruismGiving What We Can — the 10% PledgeThe recordTIME: Effective Altruist Leaders Were Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried

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Rite of Effective Altruism

The Pledge.

You commit publicly to giving away at least ten per cent of your income for the rest of your working life, and your name goes on a list. 11,153 people from 118 countries have done it.

⏱ Once in a life, and reported every year afterwards◌ Anyone; the register is public
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What happensCommit publicly to giving at least a tenth of your income for the rest of your working life, add your name to the register, then record your donations annually on a personal dashboard
What it needsAn income, and a willingness to be listed
What it aims atTo convert an intention that fades into an obligation with witnesses
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this rite is held

This is the closest thing on the page to a rite and it has the right shape: a lifelong commitment, made publicly, entered on a register that anyone can read, and renewed by an annual act of reporting. The Giving What We Can pledge asks for at least ten per cent of income for the rest of your working life, directed to whatever organisations you judge most effective — the destination is your choice, the proportion is not. As of writing, 11,153 people from 118 countries have taken it, with a further 1,601 on trial pledges of a chosen percentage for a set period. The organisation is explicit that the pledge is not legally binding and that members may resign at any time, which makes it a vow rather than a contract, and vows with public registers are religious furniture wherever else they appear on this site.

From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited

a public commitment to give at least 10% of your income to the organisations you believe can most effectively use it to improve the lives of others

Giving What We Can, givingwhatwecan.org

The pledge as the organisation describes it; the register of signatories is public and the commitment is stated as not legally binding.

The same ground, other faiths

rites that share this one's ideas
The cloak on the road from Nikolsburg. The Hutterites · story Read it in full →
The alms round. Buddhism Go deeper →
Gochari — grazing for alms. Jainism Go deeper →
A covenant binds a people to God across generations. Judaism · core tenet Go deeper →
Love of God and neighbor is the whole law. Christianity · core tenet Go deeper →
The two Eids. Islam Go deeper →

The conversation

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Where next

Effective Altruism's Practice roomback up one layer Propose a change to this riteone button — it routes to the review pool

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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