$$$ In the wake of the 2017 presidential election, organizations such as the Sierra Club, Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU, and Planned Parenthood received lots and lots of donations from concerned citizens. (In my opinion, concerned for very good reasons that this year has only borne out.) For example, the ACLU got $24 million in one weekendfollowing the announcement of the original Muslim travel ban. I was among those who scattered some money around immediately after the election, that is, in November, 2016. I somehow thought that I was making an annual donation, and come the 2017 end-of-year donor season I'd get renewal notices from those organizations. Imagine my surprise when I started getting renewal notices early in 2017. It turns out that at least some of the orgs I donated to don't do 12-month memberships. They do calendar year memberships. So my money counted for November X, 2016 to December 31, 2016. I've been informing these organizations that their next donations will come on January 1, 2018 and I've suggested two things to them: 1. When you've got a giant windfall, extend everybody's memberships through December 31, 2017. 2. If you're not going to do that, at least make it perfectly clearon your web site what period of time donations apply to.
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