Wise Giving Principles

Version 0.3 - March 2025

Wise giving aims deep
- We are aiming at the one goal that encompasses all others: enable a thriving future for humanity¹
- Outgrowing the metacrisis² requires a wiser world: a worldview (paradigm³ ) shift through cultural evolution
Wise giving navigates complexity
- Complex⁴ systems are not amenable to simple assessment
- We must discern holistically and support incremental⁵ progress
Wise giving is relational and distributed
- Our personal discernment⁶ is governed by the quality of our relationships
- Cultural development requires distributed cosmolocal⁷ coordination
Wise giving transcends-and-includes⁸ known best practices, such as:
- Effectiveness and outcome-orientation
- Epistemic humility
- Awareness of biases and conflicts of interest
- Goodhart-sensitive measurement

References

Recognizing the interconnectedness of humans with the entire biosphere ↩
Homegrown definition: power outstripping wisdom, solutions that create bigger problems ↩
Ref Donella Meadows 12 places to intervene ↩
Ref Cynefin model ↩
Ref Gall’s law ↩
Ref McGilchrist master and emissary ↩
Ref definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_localism ↩
Ref integral definition ↩