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Founders Pledge, the Glossary

Founders Pledge is a London-based charitable initiative, where entrepreneurs commit to donate a portion of their personal proceeds to charity when they sell their business.^[1]

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Altruism
Charity fundraising
Companies based in the London Borough of Southwark
Organizations associated with effective altruism

Animal welfare

Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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In the United States, a donor-advised fund (commonly called a DAF) is a charitable giving vehicle administered by a public charity created to manage charitable donations on behalf of organizations, families, or individuals.

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Dustin Moskovitz

Dustin Aaron Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) is an American billionaire internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook, Inc. (now known as Meta Platforms) with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes.

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Earning to give

Earning to give involves deliberately pursuing a high-earning career for the purpose of donating a significant portion of earned income, typically because of a desire to do effective altruism. Founders Pledge and Earning to give are altruism.

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Effective altruism

Effective altruism (EA) is a 21st-century philosophical and social movement that advocates impartially calculating benefits and prioritizing causes to provide the greatest good. It is motivated by "using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis". Founders Pledge and Effective altruism are altruism.

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Evidence-based policy

Evidence-based policy (also known as evidence-based governance) is a concept in public policy that advocates for policy decisions to be grounded on, or influenced by, rigorously established objective evidence.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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GiveWell

GiveWell is an American non-profit charity assessment and effective altruism-focused organization. Founders Pledge and GiveWell are organizations associated with effective altruism.

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Giving What We Can

Giving What We Can (GWWC) is an effective altruism-associated organisation whose members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities. Founders Pledge and Giving What We Can are altruism.

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Global catastrophic risk

A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying modern civilization.

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Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind Technologies Limited is a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Google.

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Impact investing

Impact investing refers to investments "made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return".

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Kabbage

Kabbage was an online financial technology company based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Kathryn Petralia

Kathryn Petralia is an American entrepreneur, and the co-founder and COO of Kabbage.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a global, zero-equity startup accelerator, founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2009.

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Mental health

Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior.

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Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman (born August 1984) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur.

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Open Philanthropy

Open Philanthropy is a research and grantmaking foundation that makes grants based on the principles of effective altruism. Founders Pledge and Open Philanthropy are organizations associated with effective altruism.

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Raising for Effective Giving

Raising for Effective Giving (REG) is a charity fundraising nonprofit. Founders Pledge and Raising for Effective Giving are organizations associated with effective altruism.

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Sam Altman

Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the CEO of OpenAI since 2019 (he was briefly fired and reinstated in November 2023).

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The Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator Management, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies.

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80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours is a London-based nonprofit organisation that conducts research on which careers have the largest positive social impact and provides career advice based on that research. Founders Pledge and 80,000 Hours are altruism.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Pledge