Announcing 10x donation matching on Watsi

Administrative time is always at a premium in non-profits, and optimizing for lower overhead in time and work is a reason for many things that might otherwise seem a little puzzling in their persistence.

> non-illusory matching may exist in some other circumstances. A couple possibilities: coordination matching and influence matching.

The author doesn't think much of those either, but IMO he's wrong and both would certainly qualify as genuine 1:1 matching.

The current cap for the campaign is $100k and we still have a ways to go. However, the campaign is off to a great start and there might be an opportunity to increase the cap if needed.

Which I guess I don't feel bad that more money is being raised for Watsi, but it's interesting that people don't see this sort of thing for what it is.

We can afford to do this by 1) raising money separately from a group of donors to cover our administrative costs and 2) enabling people who donate to patients to add a tip to help cover administrative costs (despite it being optional, ~2/3 of donors tip).

We're too new to have been rated by Charity Navigator. Regardless, even when we are rated I won't point donors there. I think Charity Navigator is a valuable tool (more transparency around nonprofits is a good thing imo) but I don't think it's an effective way of evaluating an organization's impact. It's focused on what % of donations nonprofits spend on programs (vs administration) but not on whether the programs work.