I’d imagine that “ease of changing selection process” varies considerably by company, so I’ll also share my anecdote (though I don’t doubt that it’s often quite difficult):
The health software company I worked for in 2015-16 offered each employee something like $600 to donate to any charity in a long list they offered, almost all of which were connected somehow to the surrounding city/state or the topic of “healthcare”. Using the latter category, I submitted several GiveWell/TLYCS charities for consideration, and one of those was added to the list.
This didn’t make a huge difference in employees’ overall allocation (the list was on the order of ~100 charities long), but because I’d been running a small EA group at the company, I was able to inform the members and some of my interested coworkers about the new option, so I’d guess we redirected $10,000-20,000 overall.
I’d imagine that “ease of changing selection process” varies considerably by company, so I’ll also share my anecdote (though I don’t doubt that it’s often quite difficult):
The health software company I worked for in 2015-16 offered each employee something like $600 to donate to any charity in a long list they offered, almost all of which were connected somehow to the surrounding city/state or the topic of “healthcare”. Using the latter category, I submitted several GiveWell/TLYCS charities for consideration, and one of those was added to the list.
This didn’t make a huge difference in employees’ overall allocation (the list was on the order of ~100 charities long), but because I’d been running a small EA group at the company, I was able to inform the members and some of my interested coworkers about the new option, so I’d guess we redirected $10,000-20,000 overall.