Giving What We Can — and the 10% Pledge — turns 15!
Join us in celebrating 15 years of Giving What We Can and the 10% Pledge in November 2024!
Post on social media tagging Giving What We Can and share your thoughts/stories about pledging along with your hopes for the future of Giving What We Can.
Your thoughts/stories about pledging could be anything from what motivated you to take the pledge to the story of how you found about it and how it's impacted your life so far! Bonus if you include a photo of you holding your pledge and/or wearing your pin — you could take a current one or share something from the past. Alternatively, you can create a customised image for the 15th anniversary below!
Please don't forget to tag us! We're @giving_what_we_can on Instagram, @givingwhatwecan on Twitter (X) and you should be able to tag us on Facebook and Linked in by simply searching "Giving What We Can".
If you don’t use social media, submit a quote and photo to this form so we can include your story in our 15th anniversary compilation.
Create your personalised 15th Anniversary image:
We’ve created these beautiful templates that you can download and share on your social media to celebrate GWWC and the 10% Pledge’s 15th anniversary.
Canva templates you can access and customise below!
You'll need to create a free Canva account if you don't yet have one.
- Open this Canva file and make a copy
- Scroll down to Page 2 (Page 1 is an example)
- Upload a photo of yourself and drag it into the image
- Click into the text box and replace the name and date with your own. (You could also sub the date out with your pledge # if you prefer — find this by searching for yourself on our Members page!)
- If you'd like to share the "quote" image on Page 4, customize it by replacing the text with your own.
- Download your images: Click the Share button in the right hand corner, select Download, choose your preferred file type (we recommend PNG or JPEG), and select the pages you'd like to download. (If you don't want a zip file, you can download them one by one.)
🎉 The image(s) should now be in your Downloads folder, ready to use! 🎉
I'll also make a quick video to walk you through the process:
Sample post ideas to help spark your imagination:
SAMPLE 1
“Since I took the 10% Pledge in [20XX], I’ve now donated at least 10% of my income for [X] years. Over the years I’ve supported [Charity A], [Charity B] and [Charity C], amongst many others. I’ve found the most rewarding part of my giving has been [answer here]. I’m looking forward to @GivingWhatWeCan hitting 10,000 10% Pledges soon — If you’re interested in learning more about my giving or the 10% Pledge, please reach out to me!”
SAMPLE 2
“It’s the 15th anniversary of The 10% Pledge from @GivingWhatWeCan! My pledge has helped me give so much more to charity than I would have otherwise — enough to [prevent the death of X children from preventable illnesses (You could divide your total $ given by $5000 USD to figure this out)]. Who would have thought it would have grown into a community of people in 100 countries across the world, of almost 10,000 people so far?”
SAMPLE 3
“I can’t believe I took the 10% Pledge almost [X] years ago, when I was [at university, in a different job, without kids]. I’ve met so many amazing people through the @GivingWhatWeCan community, including friends like [First name] and [First name]. Most importantly, my giving has gone on to [help prevent thousands of children getting malaria]. I’d love to see more people I know commit to giving more of their income away — join me and be part of the first 10,000 people to take the 10% Pledge at givingwhatwecan.org/pledge”