The pool is already created and will be distributed according to where the first people donate. I think that’s similar to the facebook giving Tuesday in terms of how counterfactual it is: the funds will go to some charity and you can influence which one.
Seems like it’s counterfactual in the same sense as the Facebook match: all of this money is going to charities one way or another, but mostly won’t go to charities EAs find plausible so you’re moving money from some random charity to something you think is especially good.
I indeed meant that it’s counterfactual in the sense davidc and gcmn mentioned, i.e. the same sense as Facebook’s Giving Tuesday matches, namely that the matching funds are available for any 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so by donating you can redirect the matching funds from the nonprofits that others who might participate in this support to nonprofits that will use the money more cost-effectively. I.e. The money is not going to your chosen nonprofits regardless—it will go to whatever nonprofits others who participate in this match donate to. (Possibly it won’t all be spent, in which case I’d guess it’d roll over to future Every.org giveaways or be returned to the funder or something, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t all used up by the end of the month.)
The summary says the donations are “counterfactually matched”, but I don’t see anything about this in the body—would you be up for saying more?
The pool is already created and will be distributed according to where the first people donate. I think that’s similar to the facebook giving Tuesday in terms of how counterfactual it is: the funds will go to some charity and you can influence which one.
Seems like it’s counterfactual in the same sense as the Facebook match: all of this money is going to charities one way or another, but mostly won’t go to charities EAs find plausible so you’re moving money from some random charity to something you think is especially good.
(Same comment as gcmm posted at the same time… Won’t delete mine but it’s basically a duplicate.)
I indeed meant that it’s counterfactual in the sense davidc and gcmn mentioned, i.e. the same sense as Facebook’s Giving Tuesday matches, namely that the matching funds are available for any 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so by donating you can redirect the matching funds from the nonprofits that others who might participate in this support to nonprofits that will use the money more cost-effectively. I.e. The money is not going to your chosen nonprofits regardless—it will go to whatever nonprofits others who participate in this match donate to. (Possibly it won’t all be spent, in which case I’d guess it’d roll over to future Every.org giveaways or be returned to the funder or something, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t all used up by the end of the month.)