State the baseline donations.
Say what each side would otherwise fund, and why that baseline is credible.
Donation offsets
When two donors would otherwise fund opposing efforts, they can redirect matched funds to a mutually acceptable destination.
Offset flow
Say what each side would otherwise fund, and why that baseline is credible.
Pick one named charity or fund both sides can regard as a shared good.
Record match, surplus, evidence, expiry, and anti-threat certification.
Valid offset checklist
Trust block
Receipts, prior giving records, or third-party attestations can support review.
The donor must credibly show they would have made the opposed donation anyway.
Threat-like baselines, coercive copy, and prohibited destinations are blocked.
Destinations
Global health and anti-poverty
A broadly legible anti-poverty and global-health destination for donors who want a compromise charity many moral views can endorse.
Open destinationEmergency public health
A widely recognisable public-health charity for offsets that need a simple, high-trust compromise destination.
Open destinationClimate and air quality
A climate compromise destination suitable when both sides value broad reductions in climate risk or pollution harms.
Open destinationAnimal welfare
A fund for neglected-animal interventions when both sides can agree that avoiding zero-sum advocacy is better than opposed spending.
Open destinationFuture flourishing
A long-run future destination covering existential risk and broadly shared future-flourishing concerns.
Open destinationMarketplace snapshot
Reviewed direct offset records only.
Completed offsets routed to broad public goods.
Committed pool amount, not verified redirection.
Pools gathering commitments before verification.
Safeguards
Offsets are not for campaign finance workarounds or candidate contributions.
Receipts are evidence for review, not platform custody or legal escrow.
Unverifiable baselines and coercive proposals remain paused or blocked.
Further reading
Ord's examples motivate opposed-donation redirection and reciprocal moral trade.
Open the paperCompromise can work when different views value overlapping outcomes.
Open the articleShared goods can make compromise more robust than thin bilateral settlements.
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