@brettcannon on the one hand; yes, boosted. On the other: this effort was spearheaded by me, personally, and 4 friends in the community, over the course of 7 days. We received matches from just over 100 donors from the community out of an audience of potentially millions, and notably, zero corporate donors. The fact that *we* were able to accomplish this and get to *2%* of the financial power the US federal government was able to deploy shows that there is a lot of headroom to keep going here
@glyph @brettcannon I'm out on a limb here since I don't really know how corporate donation programs work, but I imagine that at a lot of companies it wouldn't have been possible to get a donation approved within the time frame of your campaign. There's just too much bureaucracy to go through. (Heck, in my experience it sometimes takes weeks or months to pay *invoices*.) Plus, I think companies are less influenced by matching programs than individuals are. So I think there are explanations for why you didn't see any corporate donations that aren't just "companies can't be bothered to support the PSF". (But I am also not denying that most companies don't want to support the PSF)
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