Three Days. One Honest Account.
20–22 September · Centred on the International Day of Peace
September · Every Year
Every September, Givingtide pauses to ask what generosity has achieved. Across GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory, the Days of Account measure progress, invite scrutiny and identify the work still to be done. Three days turn an account of the year into a charge for its final hundred days.
Generosity Must Answer for What It Achieves.
Generosity begins with a willingness to give. Its credibility grows through the willingness to be measured. The Days of Account give Givingtide a yearly occasion to examine its progress openly: what has been received, what has been done, whom the work has reached and what remains unfinished.
A movement that asks the world for a proportional commitment owes the world a plain statement of what that commitment has produced. These three days are that statement. They are not a ceremony of self-congratulation, and they are not an inquest. They are the movement reading its own record aloud, in public, while there is still time in the year to act on it.
Renewal gives the year its promise. Reckoning tests that promise. Response carries it forward.
From Declaration to Examination to Resolve.
One Account is rendered over three days. Each day does a different kind of work, and none of the three stands on its own.
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20 September
The Provisional Account
Make progress visible.
The Provisional Account is published, setting out the progress of the Three Instruments of Peace across the year so far, and naming plainly what is still unfinished. It is offered as a first word, not a last one.
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21 September
Scrutiny and Reconciliation
Let the account withstand examination.
The Provisional Account is opened to examination. Questions are received, discrepancies are investigated and corrections are made. Any other formal act assigned to the Days of Account takes place on this day, unless it has been assigned expressly to another date.
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22 September
The Definitive Account
Turn what remains into a charge for action.
The Definitive Account is declared: the reconciled record of the year to date. It establishes the outstanding priorities, the charge and the targets of the hundred days that follow.
“Definitive” describes the reconciled September Account. It does not mean the calendar year’s financial accounts are closed; those run to 31 December.
One Account. Three Instruments of Peace.
Wealth, wellness and wisdom are not measured in the same way. Each Instrument is assessed according to its own work and purpose, and the three assessments are rendered as one Account.
What generosity has reached.
The reach of the alliance and the proportional giving that sustains it: resources mobilised and applied, the work they carried, and the progress made against extreme poverty among the world’s poorest tenth. The Account asks not only how much was given, but what the giving did.
What prevention has established.
The building of preventive health capacity: preemptologists trained, interventions undertaken, populations reached and preventive outcomes measured. Progress towards the Institute of Preemptology and its Founding Universal Project is reported as progress — what is planned is not reported as though it already stood.
What experience has returned.
The institutional development of the Centory: its intergenerational leadership and continuity, the contribution of the Centories already constituted, and the work of turning long experience and influence towards the common good rather than letting it fall idle.
Resources, where applicable · Work undertaken · Results measured · Reach attained · What remains
The measures differ between the Instruments. The discipline is the same for all three.
An Account Worth Trusting Must Be Open to Questions.
Publication is only the beginning of accountability. On the International Day of Peace, the provisional findings are examined, questions are heard and discrepancies reconciled. An account gains authority not by claiming perfection, but by being willing to correct what is wrong.
This is why the middle day matters most. A figure that cannot be questioned is a claim, not an account. By placing scrutiny between publication and declaration, the Days of Account make correction part of the process rather than an embarrassment after it — and the Definitive Account carries the weight of having been tested.
The International Day of Peace is observed worldwide and is not a Givingtide observance. Givingtide keeps its day of scrutiny on that date because the work being examined is work for peace.
An Account That Leads to Action.
The Days of Account do not end with a report. On 23 September, Givingtide enters the 100 Days to Zero: the final hundred days of the financial year, dedicated to making good what the Definitive Account has shown wanting.
The priorities and targets identified by the Definitive Account guide the final hundred days of the year.
Armistice Day falls on the fiftieth day. The 100 Invited Cities for the coming year are named.
The hundred days and the calendar financial year conclude together.
Global GoodTuesday++ falls on the first Tuesday of December, inside the 100 Days to Zero. It is the annual crest of the third Moment, GoodTuesday++, and not a Moment of its own.
“Zero” names the direction of the work and the ambition behind it. It is not a promise that every deficiency will be answered by 31 December.
A Founding Reckoning.
The first Days of Account fall in 2027, the opening year of the Decade. Their central day, 21 September, is also Founding GoodTuesday, when the Global Founding Semidon is convened at Oslo.
- 20–22 Sep 2027The first Days of Account are kept.
- 21 Sep 2027The International Day of Peace, and — in this year alone — Founding GoodTuesday.
- OsloThe Global Founding Semidon is convened.
- TogetherGIVA, Preemptology and the Centory are proclaimed together as the architecture of Give 100.
- 23 Sep 2027The founding 100 Days to Zero begin.
The designation Founding GoodTuesday belongs to 2027 alone. The Days of Account continue every year, centred on the International Day of Peace.
The Account Continues Beyond September.
The September Account is rendered at roughly three quarters of the financial year. The year itself closes on 31 December, and the account of the closed year is presented the following January.
The year’s progress is examined and the outstanding priorities are established.
The movement works towards the targets the Definitive Account identified. GoodTuesday++ keeps its weekly rhythm, as it does all year.
At the close of Pause 1·1·1 on Givingtide Day, the account of the closed year is presented by outgoing officers, offices whose terms have ended change hands, and the movement renews its commitment.
The September Definitive Account and the January presentation are two different things. One measures progress while the year is still running; the other presents the account of the year completed.
The Measure of Reckoning Is What We Do Next.
The Days of Account call the movement to examine its progress openly and direct renewed effort towards what remains unfinished. They create no additional financial commitment.
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Understand the Account
Read the published findings when they are available, follow what progress has been achieved across the Three Instruments, and look honestly at what remains outstanding.
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Strengthen the Three Instruments
Support the development of GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory through the established pathways. Get Involved sets out how.
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Answer the Rule of 100
Give what you can in wealth, wellness or wisdom, and help others take part. The 1-1-1 Framework requires one proportional financial commitment of 1%. The Days of Account impose no additional financial commitment.
The first Days of Account fall in 2027, so no Account has yet been rendered. This page explains what will be published, and will carry those Accounts when they exist.
Renewal. Reckoning. Response.
Global GoodTuesday++, on the first Tuesday of December, is the annual peak of the third Moment — not a fourth.
A Promise Is Made in Hope. An Account Is Given in Truth. Progress Is Made in Action.
Each year, the Days of Account ask the movement to confront what remains unfinished — and to enter the final hundred days determined to do more.