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Benevity Blocks Donations to the SPLC, but Still Uses Its Hate List

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Tyler O’Neil of the Daily Signal reported that the largest corporate charitable matching platform, Benevity, cut off the SPLC from receiving donations, but has yet to remove the SPLC’s “hate list” as a filter for others, meaning that while the SPLC is no longer eligible, it remains eligible to determine the corporate giving opportunities of hundreds of thousands of employees across the country.

Benevity helps nearly 1,000 corporate employers facilitate employee charitable giving by connecting firms with a network of 513,000 nonprofits. For years, the company has offered corporate clients screening based on the SPLC’s “hate” list. Yet a small correction note in a Washington Post op-ed revealed Thursday that Benevity had rendered the SPLC ineligible to receive charitable donations on the platform.

“Blocking donations to the SPLC while staying silent on the filter that uses the SPLC’s ‘hate list’ to exclude other charities is an incomplete and unacceptable response,” Greg Scott, executive vice president at 1792 Exchange, told the Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “No serious platform should screen nonprofits with a disgraced, indicted activist organization.

“Benevity should drop that filter entirely and tell its clients and the public it has done so,” Scott added.

Benevity did not announce the change to the SPLC’s eligibility. Instead, the news came when 1792 Exchange’s director of research, Dustin DeVito, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that the SPLC could receive charitable gifts through the platform.

On Thursday, The Washington Post changed the article and added a correction: “A previous version incorrectly stated that the Southern Poverty Law Center was currently eligible for charitable donations through the Benevity platform.”

The full article can be found in Daily Signal.

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