Givingtide International
The Capacity to End
Extreme Poverty Exists.
The Standard Does Not.
Givingtide proposes what the philanthropic world has never had: a universal, proportional, accountable standard. One percent. Three disciplined channels. Every nation, institution and person, in the same proportion. As standard. GIVA, the alliance that carries this standard, is the first of Givingtide’s Three Instruments of Peace.
Give 100 is Givingtide International’s global campaign to establish GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory as three permanent Instruments of Peace. Its governing principle is the Rule of 100: 100% of humanity giving 100% of what each can give toward the 100% elimination of extreme poverty, preventable disease and avoidable suffering.
The Global Reality
Unprecedented
Wealth. Unacceptable
Poverty.
For the first time in history, the aggregate resources of the world’s nations, corporations, and foundations are sufficient to end extreme poverty within a generation. The coordinating framework now exists.
Givingtide provides the architecture: a proportional standard transforming fragmented generosity into systemic advancement.
Poverty Is Only One of Three Failures.
Generosity is not the only resource the world leaves badly ordered. Prevention is spoken of everywhere and owned nowhere: no clinical discipline is responsible for the whole of it. And completed leadership, the accumulated judgement of those who have held a city’s highest offices and laid them down, is treated as spent rather than as the civic reserve it is. Three gaps, and three Instruments to answer them.
The Scale of the Gap
People in Extreme Poverty
More than 800 million people, about 1 in 10 worldwide, live below the World Bank’s $3.00-a-day extreme-poverty line—a condition the world holds sufficient resources to resolve.
Global Output Each Year
Projected 2026 world output is about $223 trillion at current purchasing-power-parity prices (IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026). The resource is not scarce. Its direction is.
What Ending Extreme Poverty Would Take
Measured against that output, the shortfall required to eliminate extreme poverty is less than one fifth of 1%. The one percent standard clears that threshold many times over.
The Scale, and the Ask
At Givingtide’s founding, 1 in 10 people live in extreme poverty; GIVA asks 1% for the poorest 10%. The convergence is coincidental, but it makes the scale plain.
Ways Generosity Goes Undirected
Towards need, no shared proportional standard directs a defined share to those living lowest. Across boundaries, no common reciprocal rule. In common purpose, no standing mechanism by which voluntary giving may converge on one project. GIVA answers all three.
Ways Prevention Is Unowned
As a field, no clinical home takes responsibility for prevention across all diseases. Among physicians, no specialist is accountable for prevention across the whole of medicine. For the person, no unified system delivers preventive care. Preemptology answers all three.
Ways the Wisdom of Completed Leadership Is Underutilised
No known city has a standing, citywide emeriti council that brings completed leadership across fields into continuing service. Long life is honoured, but that honour has no civic form joining distinction to continuing purpose. And power laid down has no standing vocation directing its accumulated authority towards those with the least. The Centory answers all three with its pillars: Intergenerational Continuity, Honoured Longevity and the Greatest for the Least.
The Charter · The Architecture of Peace
The Three
Instruments of Peace
The Givingtide Charter begins from a simple diagnosis: three immense human resources are badly ordered. Generosity exists without a common discipline; prevention is practised everywhere without one profession accountable for its whole; and the accumulated wisdom of completed leadership is treated as spent. Givingtide exists to give each a permanent institutional home. They are GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory, the Three Instruments of Peace (3IoP), and together they seek one end: peace for future generations.
In Constitutional Order
GIVA orders what we have
The Give 1% Alliance is the giving instrument of peace, uniting the givers of wealth. Through the 1-1-1 Framework it gives generosity a disciplined institutional home: 1%, three channels, one shared standard of what is owed by everyone who has anything, in the same proportion. Its three commitments are Equity, Cross-Continental and Universal.
The 1-1-1 Framework →Preemptology protects how we live
The health instrument of peace, uniting the givers of wellness, treats the preventable dimension of disease as one object across primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, and gives it an accountable practitioner: the preemptologist. Its independent Institute, Instop, is to be founded at Enugu; its founding proof of concept is the elimination of cervical cancer.
The Institute of Preemptology →The Centory keeps what we have become
The civic instrument of peace, uniting the givers of wisdom, gathers completed leadership into city emeriti councils. Centorians are elected to an indelible and perpetual civic dignity and bound by three commitments, Intergenerational Continuity, Honoured Longevity and the Greatest for the Least: accumulated influence and judgement returned to the service of those with the least protection and opportunity.
The Centory →Three Instruments. Nine Commitments. One Aim.
Each Instrument has three commitments, and each commitment is a proposition about peace: nine commitments resolving into one aim, peace for future generations. Each also makes a unity, gathering a class of givers: GIVA the givers of wealth, Preemptology the givers of wellness, the Centory the givers of wisdom. Within the International Decade of Strengthening of Peace for Future Generations (2027–2036), proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 June 2026, Givingtide exists to establish the Three Instruments in every city willing to receive them.
Instrument I · GIVA
The 1-1-1
Framework
The 1-1-1 Framework is the standard through which GIVA, the first of the Three Instruments of Peace, orders generosity. The 1% commitment flows through three coordinated channels: Core Equity Giving and Cross-Continental Giving are required, and support for the Universal Project is invited and is not a condition of membership. 1% is all that GIVA asks: the three are channels of the same 1% and not three 1%s, equal in importance and not in quantity. GIVA disciplines the 1%; it does not compound it.
The Operational Channels
Core Equity Giving (CEG)
1% of each member’s applicable financial base, directed annually to the world’s poorest tenth. This single 1% is the whole of the financial commitment and the core of the discipline.
The shortfall required to eliminate extreme poverty is less than one fifth of 1% of world output. GIVA’s 1% standard is designed to mobilise the world’s capacity to give towards closing that gap.
Equity: peace through justice.
Learn more →Cross-Continental Giving (CCG)
At least 1% of a member’s annual giving goes across a continental boundary, to any cause the member chooses there; the gift need not follow need. Its purpose is reciprocity, and it runs in every direction. This is a rule of allocation, not an additional giving commitment: where a member’s entire philanthropy is its Core Equity Giving, at least 1% of that 1% is directed across a continental boundary.
Cross-Continental: peace through sight.
Learn more →The Universal Project (U.P.)
Givingtide’s one global project of civilisational significance, universal in choice, contribution and benefit. Support is invited, and may be met from within Core Equity Giving. The Founding Universal Project is the Instop Complex, establishing the Institute of Preemptology at Enugu to make prevention a disciplined clinical responsibility across every branch of medicine.
Universal: peace through common purpose.
Learn more →The Proportional Threshold
Examples of the 1% commitment across different classes of GIVA.
Nations
Corporations
Foundations
The Tide Defined
A rising tide lifts all boats. A tide is not a single wave but the movement of the whole body of water, and so Givingtide calls the whole human capacity to give into motion. Its measure is not how high the strongest rise, but whether those riding lowest rise with them. A tide ebbs and flows but remains; so Givingtide is continuous even as its public rhythms recur.
A Principal Pillar
Givingtide
Moments
Moments provide the calendar architecture of the whole movement. The year has three Givingtide Moments, in the order of their annual culmination: Givingtide Day for renewal, the Days of Account for reckoning and GoodTuesday for response. Their recurrence gives the movement its tidal rhythm.
Givingtide Day
The 1·1·1 Day: the annual ceremonial renewal of the movement. Observed on 11 January, it is the point at which every GIVA, nations, corporations and foundations among them, publicly renews its commitment to the 1-1-1 discipline—a pledge renewed for generations yet unborn.
The Days of Account
The movement’s annual reckoning, held from 20 to 22 September: the Provisional Account is published, opened to scrutiny on the International Day of Peace, and declared definitive. Its findings guide the 100 Days to Zero, from 23 September to 31 December, with Armistice Day marking their midpoint.
GoodTuesday
The movement’s weekly rhythm of generosity and response, inviting every nation, institution and person to give, serve or convene. Global GoodTuesday, the first Tuesday of December, is its annual peak. Neither observance adds to the financial commitment of the 1-1-1 Framework.
A Principal Pillar
Givingtide
Headquarters
At Givingtide International, location operates as a core institutional principle.
The headquarters structure distributes presence across the global landscape, with each office located according to a distinct principle: generosity, need and scale.
Explore Givingtide HeadquartersThe language of disciplined giving
GIVA: The Give 1% Alliance
GIVA gives Givingtide a shared language for disciplined generosity: Give, 1, %, Alliance.
GIVA means Give 1% Alliance—the disciplined one percent framework through which Givingtide organises proportional generosity. It is the first of the Three Instruments of Peace, the giving instrument, standing alongside Preemptology and the Centory.
The word GIVA carries three referents. A GIVA is a registered member, whether an institution, a nation or a natural person, that has adopted the 1-1-1 Framework; a natural-person GIVA holds the style Chartered Philanthropist. A GIVA Chapter is the local self-governing body of GIVAs in one city, known publicly as GIVA [City] or Givingtide [City]. The Give 1% Alliance itself is the worldwide fellowship of all GIVAs.
The act that opens the name.
The Roman numeral for one.
The stroke of the per cent sign.
Two words enclosing two figures: the name spells the standard.
Through GIVA, the 1% standard becomes a shared practice of disciplined, proportional generosity. 1% is all that GIVA asks. The invitation to become a GIVA is three words: Join the tide.
The Campaign
GIVA · PREEMPTOLOGY · CENTORY
Give 100 is Givingtide International’s global campaign to establish GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory as three permanent Instruments of Peace.
Give 100 is not institution-dependent but institution-building.
Its governing principle is the Rule of 100: 100% of humanity giving 100% of what each can give toward the 100% elimination of extreme poverty, preventable disease and avoidable suffering. It asks no person for more than they have and excuses no person on the ground that they have little. Reduced to its invitation, it is 100% of humanity invited to host or participate in a semidon in support of the Three Instruments of Peace.
The Semidon
A semidon is a cause-seeding gathering. A Give 100 semidon is governed by the Rule of 100: a roll of exactly 100 named adults, 100 commonweal lights and no more than 100 minutes, with the host among the hundred.
One Decade. One Campaign. One Event. Three Instruments.
The Invitation
History Is Being
Written Now.
The world has the wealth to end extreme poverty, the knowledge to prevent much disease, and the wisdom of completed leadership to build a better, more peaceful future for generations yet unborn. What it lacks is the permanent institutional architecture to bring all three to bear on humanity’s greatest challenges.
Givingtide provides that architecture through the Three Instruments of Peace: GIVA directs proportional generosity towards the world’s poorest; Preemptology establishes prevention as a comprehensive clinical responsibility; and the Centory returns completed leadership to the service of cities and future generations.
The Decade 2027–2036 is the founding opportunity to establish these Instruments in every willing city. 2027 is the Inaugural Year, when the first founding acts enter the Give 100 Register. Those who convene, serve and build during the Decade will leave a permanent record of their part in establishing institutions intended to endure for generations.