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Ibrahim Dagher's avatar

YES!

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Spiarrow's avatar

This is so great, welcome to the club!

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Kyle Star's avatar

LET’S GOOOOOOO

Taking the pledge is one of the best moral decisions a person will make in their whole life.

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Joe Schmid's avatar

BASED AND EFFECTIVE-GIVING-PILLED

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Jonathan Milligan's avatar

Doing my part for a better world. Pledge taker #10243.

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david's avatar

what % of your charity dollars go to each charity that you support?

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

52.60 a month to ACE

100 a month to SWP

100 a month to insect institute

121 a month to the malaria consortium

44 a month to the EA long term future fund.

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Arbituram's avatar

Congrats, and welcome to the club!! Giving What We Can is really, to me, the heart and core of the entire movement.

Children are dying of easily preventable causes and we can make a material difference to that with a trivial proportion of our income.

That's it. That's all.

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Laura Duffy's avatar

Thanks for this! Really cool that you took the pledge! It prompted me to increase my donations from 10% to 15% :)

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

Awesome!!!!!

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Tyner's avatar

Congrats! I am number 10,213, your pledge number neighbor (=

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

That's amazing!!!!!

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Jacco Rubens's avatar

Can I get a subscription if I'm already a Pledger?

Great article, and congrats on your pledge!

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Jonah Dunch's avatar

I've been meaning to sign up for a Trial Pledge for a while now--since your last post about this, actually--and this post prompted me to finally pull the trigger. I've committed to 10 percent for a year, and we'll see how it goes. Whether that merits a comped sub I leave to your judgement ;)

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

I currently don’t have internet but I’ll give you a sub when I get it, and you can remind me if I forget!

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Jonah Dunch's avatar

Sounds good!

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

That’s awesome!!!

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Elim's avatar

Just took the Pledge, only have a part time job so it's not a lot (100$ a month) but I hope it helps!

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Alex C.'s avatar

I would do this, but some 20 years ago, my wife and I made the decision to spend most of our disposable income on cat rescue. We currently have more cats in our house than I care to mention. In retrospect, this may not have been the optimal strategy to help animals, given the fact that cats are carnivores and saving them might be a net negative. But it is what it is.

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