This blog series assumes a basic familiarity with Giving Games. If you’re new to this topic, we suggest you take a brief look at our Giving Games FAQ page.
This is the first in a series of blog posts I will be writing about The Life You Can Save’s Giving Game program. Giving Games are at the heart of our philanthropy education efforts, and this program has been growing so rapidly that we are behind in updating you on our progress. This series will put a fix to that, and by the end of it we hope you’re as excited about Giving Games as we are.
Giving Games are an effective, inexpensive, and scalable way to promote effective giving. Further, they are a way for people to get tremendous leverage out of their personal giving, which is why we are investing heavily in financially supporting and promoting Giving Games. The next posts in this series will address these three issues in turn: Why do we believe Giving Games teach better giving? How cost effective are Giving Games? And why do we think the model will scale?
Subsequent posts will explore topics such as using Giving Games for research purposes, how Giving Games add value for each stakeholder constituency, and we will provide several ways that allow you to personally participate in supporting and/or running Giving Games. We’ll also provide updates on the growth of our program, and our plans going forward. If there are other topics you’d like to know about, please use the comments section to let me know!
