Friday, September 15, 2017
The Questionable Ethic of an Opt-Out for Recurring Donations: A Caution for Nonprofits
Forget the fact that the nonprofit in question here is the Committee to Defend the President; its practice of automatically signing donors up for recurring donations has, according to BuzzFeed News, landed it in trouble with its donors, who are demanding their unauthorized money back—around $210,000 of it.
And, indeed, there has been a spate of articles in the last year about related practices among both Democrats and Republicans. Donors had difficulty cancelling recurring donations to the Trump Campaign even as the campaign was ongoing, and donors were charged by the Hillary Victory Fund after the election was a done deal...