To clarify our process here, which we haven’t detailed except in emails to the donors to whom this applies:
We plan to stop accepting donations to the programs previously on our top charities list by December 31, 2022. In the few months before then, we are contacting donors with open recurring gifts to these programs several times, asking them if they’d like to reallocate their gifts elsewhere. If we don’t get a response from these donors by the December 31 deadline, we are automatically cancelling any portions of recurring donations that are allocated to one of the five former top charities (except those set up via PayPal; see below). If I’m interpreting you correctly, you’re asking why we’re choosing to cancel those donations instead of automatically reallocating them to a different program or fund—is that right?
We made this decision because it was more practical for us administratively, and because we expect that we’ll ultimately end up needing to cancel very few donations, if any. Most donors will be able to choose their reallocation rather than this happening by default. When we discontinued the standout charity designation, the vast majority of donors switched their designation to a different program based on their preference; we think that will most likely happen this time as well, so we don’t expect to end up missing out on large amounts of funding.
The exception to the process above is recurring donations through PayPal—we can’t cancel or change these ourselves, so, after December 31, any funds we get from donations to previous top charities will be automatically reallocated to the Maximum Impact Fund (which seemed like a simple, justifiable default).
I hope that’s helpful, and thanks for your engagement!
Hi, David,
To clarify our process here, which we haven’t detailed except in emails to the donors to whom this applies:
We plan to stop accepting donations to the programs previously on our top charities list by December 31, 2022. In the few months before then, we are contacting donors with open recurring gifts to these programs several times, asking them if they’d like to reallocate their gifts elsewhere. If we don’t get a response from these donors by the December 31 deadline, we are automatically cancelling any portions of recurring donations that are allocated to one of the five former top charities (except those set up via PayPal; see below). If I’m interpreting you correctly, you’re asking why we’re choosing to cancel those donations instead of automatically reallocating them to a different program or fund—is that right?
We made this decision because it was more practical for us administratively, and because we expect that we’ll ultimately end up needing to cancel very few donations, if any. Most donors will be able to choose their reallocation rather than this happening by default. When we discontinued the standout charity designation, the vast majority of donors switched their designation to a different program based on their preference; we think that will most likely happen this time as well, so we don’t expect to end up missing out on large amounts of funding.
The exception to the process above is recurring donations through PayPal—we can’t cancel or change these ourselves, so, after December 31, any funds we get from donations to previous top charities will be automatically reallocated to the Maximum Impact Fund (which seemed like a simple, justifiable default).
I hope that’s helpful, and thanks for your engagement!
Miranda