"A group of Singularity Institute donors has stepped forward to match all donations given through Philanthroper today"
Does this make sense? How do we know they wouldn't have given that money anyway?
I'm one of the matchers, and I can promise you that I wouldn't have given that money anyways!
This is generally a good question though; for bigger matching fundraising drives I think that more often or not the money is precommitted.
Singularity Institute is today's featured charity on Philanthroper.com
Philanthroper is a micro-giving site that profiles small charities hand-selected by their editors. Their site encourages donors to “give every day” by only requesting $1 contributions.
A group of Singularity Institute donors has stepped forward to match all donations given through Philanthroper today so I'd encourage each of you to give $1 now if you support Singularity Institute and have a US-based bank account (Philanthroper requirement). We'd like to have a healthy total raised by the end of the day. The fundraiser has already been featured on Gizmodo but please submit it to other news sites if you can.
I signed up and gave my $1.