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Look, perhaps you should consider that you're not in the best possible position to offer suggestions on the topic, given your lack of information on the topic.
For example, I remember (I don't have a link handy, alas) someone from MIRI saying that monthly donations are better for them, since they're a more reliable source of money that allows them to plan ahead to some extent.
Then why are the major donors rewarding sixmonthly payments?
What sources of information on the topic would you recommend?
I'm guessing it's because they feel it increases donations among the people who don't monthly-donate.
When in doubt about what policy is best, then perhaps ask what the beneficiaries themselves think is best policy? They have probably thought about it longer than you.
Then shouldn't they run the doublings in different areas/communities each month so as to normalize the resulting donations across time?
I think I'll stop answering questions. I don't see why you're interested in my guesswork, rather than asking such questions to MIRI itself who could answer them more definitively.
Can you suggest a place to ask such questions publically?