Iād imagine that āease of changing selection processā varies considerably by company, so Iāll also share my anecdote (though I donāt doubt that itās 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/āstate or the topic of āhealthcareā. Using the latter category, I submitted several GiveWell/āTLYCS charities for consideration, and one of those was added to the list.
This didnāt make a huge difference in employeesā overall allocation (the list was on the order of ~100 charities long), but because Iād 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 Iād guess we redirected $10,000-20,000 overall.
Iād imagine that āease of changing selection processā varies considerably by company, so Iāll also share my anecdote (though I donāt doubt that itās 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/āstate or the topic of āhealthcareā. Using the latter category, I submitted several GiveWell/āTLYCS charities for consideration, and one of those was added to the list.
This didnāt make a huge difference in employeesā overall allocation (the list was on the order of ~100 charities long), but because Iād 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 Iād guess we redirected $10,000-20,000 overall.