{"items": [{"author": "Emily", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124073906732", "anchor": "fb-10100124073906732", "service": "fb", "text": "Is this donation process through Facebook? I was reading that raising money on Facebook allows the company to donate the money as if it's theirs and get various breaks etc because of this, as opposed to the people who are actually donating it. Like sure I think at least most of the money ends up going to the charities still but it's allowing them to take advantage, if I understood it correctly.<br><br>The benefit of a matched donation might outweigh some of this in this instance?", "timestamp": "1574886189"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124073906732&reply_comment_id=10100124076661212", "anchor": "fb-10100124073906732_10100124076661212", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Emily where did you see that?  That's not my understanding.  The receipts I've received for test donations include \"This receipt confirms that you have made this donation as a charitable contribution and you are not receiving any goods or services in return\" and list the charity I chose as the recipient.<br><br>My understanding is that *all* of the money goes to the charity, not most.", "timestamp": "1574886639"}, {"author": "Emily", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124073906732&reply_comment_id=10100124077389752", "anchor": "fb-10100124073906732_10100124077389752", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Let me see if I can find the thing I was reading. Someone else had posted it", "timestamp": "1574887022"}, {"author": "Avi", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124073906732&reply_comment_id=10100124187748592", "anchor": "fb-10100124073906732_10100124187748592", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Emily Donations to US nonprofits on Facebook go to either (a) the nonprofit themselves or (b) Network for Good, a Donor Advised Fund, which then regrants the full amount to the nonprofit a few months later. If there are any matching funds, then Network for Good regrants those as well.<br><br>Facebook used to charge fees, but since Nov 2017 they've been charging 0% in fees, taking a loss on the credit card transaction costs.", "timestamp": "1574911762"}, {"author": "Paul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124073906732&reply_comment_id=10100124207024962", "anchor": "fb-10100124073906732_10100124207024962", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;You may have seen this false message: https://www.snopes.com/fact.../facebook-write-off-birthdays/", "timestamp": "1574923677"}, {"author": "Emily", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124073906732&reply_comment_id=10100124211750492", "anchor": "fb-10100124073906732_10100124211750492", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;I definitely was reading an article and not a meme, but I couldn't manage to dredge it up and I couldn't remember who had posted it. It's definitely possible it was going on the original \"Facebook keeps 5%\" or whatever it was fee that's apparently now done, because that number is familiar.<br><br>I might have also been confusing it, come to think of, with some info I was reading about other stores and charitable donation options. But, if Facebook provides the info for an individual's tax purpose then they can't be claiming it themselves legally", "timestamp": "1574930946"}, {"author": "Ruthie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124076242052", "anchor": "fb-10100124076242052", "service": "fb", "text": "Was there a per organization limit last year?  Seems like this limits the upside and adds an incentive to coordinate with like minded people.", "timestamp": "1574886415"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124076242052&reply_comment_id=10100124088128232", "anchor": "fb-10100124076242052_10100124088128232", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Ruthie last year it was $250k per organization instead of $100k", "timestamp": "1574891361"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124085693112", "anchor": "fb-10100124085693112", "service": "fb", "text": "Unfortunately they probably won't match donations to the people I most want to support: the producers of nonfiction podcasts about non-timely subjects.", "timestamp": "1574890347"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124085693112&reply_comment_id=10100124087494502", "anchor": "fb-10100124085693112_10100124087494502", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Kiran are they a 501c3?", "timestamp": "1574891131"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124085693112&reply_comment_id=10100124098332782", "anchor": "fb-10100124085693112_10100124098332782", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman Most of them are probably not even incorporated. But they do the work I want to support.", "timestamp": "1574894362"}, {"author": "Ross", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124085693112&reply_comment_id=10100124221381192", "anchor": "fb-10100124085693112_10100124221381192", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Donation swaps seems like a plausible answer to this -- find a trusted friend who wants to donate money to a charity that FB will match to; you get $100 matched in the FB event to their favorite charity and they give $125 to your podcast of choice!<br><br>(You deduct your donation and pay ~$0.75 to send your favorite podcast $1.25; they don't deduct theirs but pay $1.25 to send their favorite charity $2.)", "timestamp": "1574946083"}, {"author": "Samantha", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124085693112&reply_comment_id=10100124646933382", "anchor": "fb-10100124085693112_10100124646933382", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Kiran, care to recommend for those of us who want to consume?", "timestamp": "1575182865"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100124085693112&reply_comment_id=10100125402928362", "anchor": "fb-10100124085693112_10100125402928362", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Samantha Gastropod, Inquiring Minds, and This Week in Parasitism come to mind.", "timestamp": "1575542837"}, {"author": "Rob Bensinger", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XMMMnLP8LY65cwpnN#jj6GnZjbstyAFmCQz", "anchor": "lw-jj6GnZjbstyAFmCQz", "service": "lw", "text": "Colm put together specific recommendations for people who want to help MIRI get matched on Giving Tuesday: https://intelligence.org/2019/11/28/giving-tuesday-2019/.<br><br>Other EA orgs that want to get matched might benefit from something similar; I haven't looked at the specific suggestions other orgs are making.", "timestamp": 1574981720}, {"author": "jkaufman", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XMMMnLP8LY65cwpnN#2B6562sPsmZj5xour", "anchor": "lw-2B6562sPsmZj5xour", "service": "lw", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Those instructions are not as good as the EA Giving Tuesday ones.  They don't tell you to confirm your identity 1d+ before, or to click the green button 30s+ before.\n", "timestamp": 1574994536}, {"author": "colm", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XMMMnLP8LY65cwpnN#LACysFvwk8bMg6x4D", "anchor": "lw-LACysFvwk8bMg6x4D", "service": "lw", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;&rarr;&nbsp;I agree, Jeff. I&apos;ve updated the page accordingly.<br><br>Thank you for your identity confirmation investigations.  How confident are you that individual donations of more than $2,499 will be matched during the event itself? ", "timestamp": 1575114015}, {"author": "jkaufman", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XMMMnLP8LY65cwpnN#gkZ5uJCD7BYSxee9J", "anchor": "lw-gkZ5uJCD7BYSxee9J", "service": "lw", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;&rarr;&nbsp;&rarr;&nbsp;Pretty confident; I did three $9,999 donations as a test run without getting any declined. The EA Giving Tuesday team (which I'm not on) has thought a lot more about this, and you could ask them?\n", "timestamp": 1575116955}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822", "service": "fb", "text": "A the last minute we found out that the $2499 limit was back this year, even for people who had confirmed their identity.  I saw two declines, and got eleven transactions through (taking timestamps from the receipt I got in my email):<br><br>* AMF $2499 7:59:57<br>* AMF $2499 7:59:59<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:00<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:03<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:10<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:12<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:14<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:15<br>* EA Meta $2499 8:00:19<br>* EA Meta $2499 8:00:20<br>* EA Meta $2499 8:00:22<br><br>I intentionally started several seconds early in case the timestamp that FB is using is the transaction complete time and not the button click time.  Since I was donating more than the $20k limit that should be fine.<br><br>The earlier timestamps seem about right to me, but the later ones look delayed.  I was going at about 1.5s per donation, so the 8:00:03 one looks slightly delayed and the 8:00:10 and later look substantially delayed.<br><br>I had been planning to do 100% AMF but I moved a small number of my donations from AMF to the EA Meta fund since (a) I wanted to fund both this year and (b) AMF looked closer to its limit, based on EA Giving Tuesday pledges, if you figure the same 65% as last year.", "timestamp": "1575378925"}, {"author": "Ruthie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100125016427912", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100125016427912", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;More data:  I clicked at roughly 8:00:01, 8:00:02, 8:00:03, and 8:00:04 and my receipts say 8:00:01, 8:00:03, 8:00:10, and 8:00:14", "timestamp": "1575379098"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100125018887982", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100125018887982", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;I'm now making follow-up donations, since I believe today is the only day I can donate to the EA Meta Fund with a credit card with fees waived.", "timestamp": "1575380200"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100125024461812", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100125024461812", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;I got an email alert:", "timestamp": "1575381928"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100125024561612", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100125024561612", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;But when I click through it won't let me:", "timestamp": "1575381949"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100125024726282", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100125024726282", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Which is not really surprising: credit cards don't generally let you make payments in response to \"pending\" purchases, though those still affect your credit limit.  But it's silly that they're sending an email with a call to action that I can't actually do.", "timestamp": "1575382002"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100133244783222", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100133244783222", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Match notifications are out! They show up in your fb notifications list.  I see:<br><br>* AMF $2499 7:59:57 no<br>* AMF $2499 7:59:59 yes<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:00 yes<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:03 yes<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:10 yes<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:12 yes<br>* AMF $2499 8:00:14 and later no<br><br>So $12.5k out of $20k possible.", "timestamp": "1579646187"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100133248051672", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100133248051672", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman excellent clicking!", "timestamp": "1579647622"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124060698202?comment_id=10100125015973822&reply_comment_id=10100133251584592", "anchor": "fb-10100125015973822_10100133251584592", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Jess thanks!<br><br>(The later timestamps are substantially later than when I actually clicked; I think we overloaded the system and it started queuing.)", "timestamp": "1579649213"}]}