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Why should you convert some of your savings to Glo?

Glo allows you to contribute to charity without having to donate—or, if you're already donating, to maximise your impact beyond your donations.

by
Jasper
Driessens
August 30, 2022
About Glo
Social impact

Putting money in Glo means your savings passively lift people out of poverty. Here's how it works.

You buy Glo with dollars. You can always convert back to normal dollars—every Glo is always worth $1—so you're not losing any money. But while your money is in the form of Glo, it slowly generates a bit of interest. We give that interest to people in Kenya and Liberia, so they get a basic income of $30/month.

In other words, you're generating money without it costing you any money. It's like passive income, except it's passive philanthropy. No donations required. That's the magic of Glo.

The more money we all collectively convert to Glo, the more people we can help.

Approximately every $17,000 of Glo is enough to lift one person out of poverty. But any amount helps! If you have, for instance, $1700 of savings, consider putting that into Glo. If 9 other people do the same, we've changed one more person's life.

Glo is not available yet—we'll launch within a couple of months.

But if you're excited about this and plan on buying Glo, you can already contribute. Simply tell the world about your intention to put some savings in Glo when we launch later this year, for instance on Twitter, LinkedIn, or a WhatsApp or Telegram group. This helps a ton, because you might inspire one or two people to do the same. The more people we can reach before launch, the faster we can hit the ground running. If you support the mission of Glo, please consider spreading the word ❤️

See this page for all big and small ways you can contribute to GLO.

So how exactly does Glo 'magically' generate money? It's actually quite simple.

To buy e.g. 1000 Glo, you send us $1000. We keep that $1000 in our reserve. That's how we make sure your 1000 Glo stays worth $1000, and you can always convert it back if you need to use the money. However, rather than literally keeping your $1000 sitting on a back account, we invest a part of it in US government bonds—specifically, 3-month T-bills. That's about the least risky investment you can think of. But it still generates a small interest (currently 2.9% per year). Our competitor stablecoins, like Tether and Circle (USDC), take this interest as their profit. But Glo is non-profit. We give 100% of that interest away for free, in the form of basic income.

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In this program, GiveDirectly identifies impoverished African villages to give their citizens $30 per month, transferred via mobile money technology, for 3-5 years. For people living on less than $2/day this is a transformational amount.
Glo's economic model is to invest its reserve in short-term Treasury bills and give the proceeds away entirely to GiveDirectly.

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Glo for savings

Why should you convert some of your savings to Glo?

Glo allows you to contribute to charity without having to donate—or, if you're already donating, to maximise your impact beyond your donations.

Everyone on this page is going to buy Glo at launch 👇

Putting money in Glo means your savings passively lift people out of poverty. Here's how it works.

You buy Glo with dollars. You can always convert back to normal dollars—every Glo is always worth $1—so you're not losing any money. But while your money is in the form of Glo, it slowly generates a bit of interest. We give that interest to people in Kenya and Liberia, so they get a basic income of $30/month.

In other words, you're generating money without it costing you any money. It's like passive income, except it's passive philanthropy. No donations required. That's the magic of Glo.

The more money we all collectively convert to Glo, the more people we can help.

Approximately every $17,000 of Glo is enough to lift one person out of poverty. But any amount helps! If you have, for instance, $1700 of savings, consider putting that into Glo. If 9 other people do the same, we've changed one more person's life.

Glo is not available yet—we'll launch within a couple of months.

But if you're excited about this and plan on buying Glo, you can already contribute. Simply tell the world about your intention to put some savings in Glo when we launch later this year, for instance on Twitter, LinkedIn, or a WhatsApp or Telegram group. This helps a ton, because you might inspire one or two people to do the same. The more people we can reach before launch, the faster we can hit the ground running. If you support the mission of Glo, please consider spreading the word ❤️

See this page for all big and small ways you can contribute to GLO.

So how exactly does Glo 'magically' generate money? It's actually quite simple.

To buy e.g. 1000 Glo, you send us $1000. We keep that $1000 in our reserve. That's how we make sure your 1000 Glo stays worth $1000, and you can always convert it back if you need to use the money. However, rather than literally keeping your $1000 sitting on a back account, we invest a part of it in US government bonds—specifically, 3-month T-bills. That's about the least risky investment you can think of. But it still generates a small interest (currently 2.9% per year). Our competitor stablecoins, like Tether and Circle (USDC), take this interest as their profit. But Glo is non-profit. We give 100% of that interest away for free, in the form of basic income.

Alexander Drummond
Director of Partnerships
Deborah Lightfoot
Head of Finance & Reserves
Lisa LoGerfo
General Counsel
Marcia Blacken
Head of Operations
Garm Lucassen
Co-founder & CTO
Jeffrey Milewski
Co-founder & CEO
Harikrishnan Shaji
Software Engineer
Sascha Wu
Software Engineer
Jasper Driessens
Co-founder & Head of marketing
Bram Voets
Growth
Seth Ariel Green
Researcher-Writer
Eric Tsang
Software Engineer
Rad Iglantowicz
Software Engineer
Sid Sijbrandij
Non-Executive Founder
Alexander Drummond
Director of Partnerships
Deborah Lightfoot
Head of Finance & Reserves
Lisa LoGerfo
General Counsel
Marcia Blacken
Head of Operations
Garm Lucassen
Co-founder & CTO
Jeffrey Milewski
Co-founder & CEO
Harikrishnan Shaji
Software Engineer
Sascha Wu
Software Engineer
Jasper Driessens
Co-founder & Head of marketing
Bram Voets
Growth
Seth Ariel Green
Researcher-Writer
Eric Tsang
Software Engineer
Rad Iglantowicz
Software Engineer
Sid Sijbrandij
Non-Executive Founder

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