1792 Exchange Marks One Year of Success in Campaign to End Corporate Reliance on SPLC’s “Hate List”
Following a year of research, corporate engagement, coalition building, and public accountability, major corporations have started to abandon SPLC-based charitable gift matching restrictions, charitable-giving processors have changed their practices, and hundreds of companies have faced calls for reform. October 17 marks one year of 1792 Exchange’s campaign to end corporate reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) controversial “Hate List” to determine which nonprofit organizations are eligible for employee charitable giving and corporate matching programs. Working alongside Bowyer Research, Inspire Investing, The Heritage Foundation, Alliance Defending Freedom, and other coalition partners, 1792 Exchange has helped secure meaningful policy changes at major American corporations, raised national awareness of discriminatory charitable-giving practices, and pressed major charitable giving processors and hundreds of companies to review their reliance on the SPLC’s “Hate List” data. The campaign began with original research by 1792 Exchange into Benevity, one of the nation’s largest corporate charitable-giving platforms, which processes billions of dollars in donations annually. The research helped uncover how Benevity uses SPLC designations to exclude mainstream conservative, Christian, pro-family, and other advocacy organizations from corporate charitable gift matching programs, often without employees or corporate leadership understanding the criteria behind those restrictions. 1792 Exchange identified more than 200 Fortune …