Joining Pledge1 has helped us to engage our employees and be more transparent in the way we give to charity – Co-founder Jimmy Lundström
We want to create a workplace people are proud to work at – CEO and Co-founder Emil Sjödin
At RefinedWiki we aim to instill ‘effective altruism’ into our company culture, and joining Pledge 1% has given us the means to do so. You may or may not have heard of the term ‘effective altruism’. The premise of the movement is that we use evidence and reason to help others with our time and money. Highly regarded philosophers William MacAskill and Peter Singer have both written books, given many talks, founded organizations and spearheaded the effective altruism movement. In line with this, RefinedWiki want our work and charitable giving to have a well reasoned and targeted positive impact on society. Pledge 1% has helped us to bring effective altruism into focus.
In order to bring our pledge into action and engage employees in the process, we decided this November to arrange a forum from which each staff member had the opportunity to pitch a charity they would like to support most, and why.
Following the pitches we voted on the top charities we want to support. This was a great way of:
- Working as a team to decide which charity we want to support;
- Targeting our efforts towards worthwhile (and effective) causes;
- Increasing the awareness of the charities we support, and;
- Feeling a part of the giving culture in the company.
We are proud to be Pledging1% and supporting four wonderful charities; Doctors without Borders, Charity Water, The Hunger Project and UNHCR.
