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They also no longer hand out Christmas presents. But those had been on a downhill slope for a while.

$400 dollar donations to charities we can choose from is fine by me and A LOT of other Googlers.

Eh, money is fungible. They could have always just given everyone a <1% pay rise instead of a Christmas gift, for the same monetary effect.

I'm a bit out of the loop. How limited is the list of charities to choose from? Is it a small list, or essentially free for all?

(For charity, I usually just pick whatever GiveWell suggests at the moment. Everything else feels like an insult to humanity to me.)

There is a very big list. It's even filterable by continents. I have always found the charities I want to donate on there.