Givingtide International

What is Givingtide?

Givingtide refers to three closely related things: the commitment to give one percent (1%), the one-percent gift itself, and the global movement—formally known as Givingtide International—that exists to advance both.

At its core, Givingtide is only one percent.

What that one percent is
How it is directed
What is required
What is optional
What Givingtide is not

The commitment

The commitment to give one percent (1%).

The one-percent gift

The one-percent gift itself.

The global movement

Givingtide International exists to advance both.

The Core Givingtide Commitment

Givingtide International calls for a single, simple, and unified commitment: just one percent (1%).

Nations dedicate 1% of Gross National Income (GNI)

Corporations dedicate 1% of annual income before tax

Foundations dedicate 1% of their total annual grants or endowment value

This Core 1% is the defining pledge and gift associated with the name Givingtide. There are no additional mandatory percentages beyond this core commitment.

How Givingtide Directs Generosity

Givingtide advances global solidarity through three distinct but complementary commitments. These commitments are clearly bounded and not additive.

Core 1% for the Poorest 10% (Foundational)

The Givingtide commitment directs the Core 1% toward initiatives that uplift the poorest ten percent (10%) of people globally. This is the moral centre of Givingtide.

Cross-Continental Giving (CCG) (Required)

Givingtide calls on nations, corporations, and foundations to ensure that one percent (1%) of their total annual philanthropic budget is directed to initiatives on a different continent from their own.

This commitment is required, not optional.
It is not an additional percentage layered onto Givingtide.
It does not need to be the same funds as the Core 1%, though organisations may choose to align them.

One Universal Project (U.P.) Each Year (Optional)

Each year, Givingtide highlights one world-changing Universal Project. Participation in the Universal Project is entirely voluntary:

contributors may give any amount,
or none at all,
optionally drawing from existing philanthropic resources.

The Universal Project provides a shared focal point, never an obligation.

Givingtide: Core Architecture at a Glance

Givingtide asks for one percent. It requires cross-continental giving. Everything else is optional.

GIVINGTIDE Exactly 1%

CORE 1% → Poorest 10%

CCG Required

1% of total philanthropic budget → Other continent

Universal Project Optional

Any amount or none

Givingtide asks for one percent. It requires cross-continental giving. Everything else is optional.

What Givingtide Is — and Is Not

Givingtide is:

a one-percent commitment,
a one-percent gift,
a global norm of disciplined generosity.

Givingtide is not:

three percent,
a bundle of escalating demands,
a mechanism for donor control,
a replacement for existing philanthropy.

Together, these commitments form a minimal, disciplined, and scalable architecture for global generosity. Givingtide asks for one percent. It asks that generosity look beyond continents. Everything else is an invitation—not an obligation.

“Givingtide refers to the one-percent commitment, the one-percent gift itself, and the global movement—formally known as Givingtide International—that exists to advance both.”

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