“GWWC is retiring 10 initiatives” by Giving What We Can

In our recent strategy retreat, the GWWC Leadership Team recognised that by spreading our limited resources across too many projects, we are unable to deliver the level of excellence and impact that our mission demands. True to our value of being mission accountable, we've therefore made the difficult but necessary decision to discontinue a total of 10 initiatives. By focusing our energy on fewer, more strategically aligned initiatives, we think we’ll be more likely to ultimately achieve our Big Hairy Audacious Goal of 1 million pledgers donating $3B USD to high-impact charities annually. (See our 2025 strategy.) We’d like to be transparent about the choices we made, both to hold ourselves accountable and so other organisations can take the gaps we leave into account when planning their work. As such, this post aims to: Inform the broader EA community about changes to projects & highlight opportunities to carry [...] ---Outline:(02:30) Giving What We Can Canada(06:13) Effective Altruism Australia funding partnership(08:40) Giving What We Can Groups(10:57) Giving Games(12:50) Charity Elections(16:59) Effective Giving Meta evaluation and grantmaking(19:11) Giving What We Can Donor Lottery(21:32) Translations(23:59) Hosted Funds(25:56) New licensing of the GWWC brandThe original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: April 10th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/f7yQFP3ZhtfDkD7pr/gwwc-is-retiring-10-initiatives --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.