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New Year's resolution is not to donate to things until I check if there's a matching donation drive starting the next week :( Anyway, donated a little extra because of all the great social pressure from everyone's amazing donations here. Will donate more when I have an income.
At first I felt a little better that someone else made the same mistake, but on reflection I should feel worse.
I would avoid the phrase "I should feel worse" in most scenarios due to pain and gain motivation.
On reflection I shouldn't feel bad about much of anything.
I don't think it actually matters, unless the matching drive isn't fulfilled. Even then, I would be really surprised if Jaan and Edwin take their money back. So in some sense it is better to have donated before the drive, as it allows someone else to have their donation matched who might not have donated without the promise of matching.
I wonder if there's empirical research on how much in advance to announce matching donation drives so as to maximize revenue.
Any observations of how established charities handle this?