DoorDash Drops Southern Poverty Law Center as ‘Gatekeeper’ of Employee Donations
The Southern Poverty Law Center continues to lose credibility.
Employees at the food delivery company DoorDash can now have their donations matched to conservative nonprofits such as Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), Family Research Council, and Turning Point USA.
DoorDash will no longer allow the beleaguered Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to act as a “gatekeeper” for which companies employees can have donations matched to, according to an announcement from ADF. The food company outsources its screening to other companies, which rely on the SPLC for determining eligible charities.
“The change at DoorDash, which commands 56% of the U.S. food delivery market, follows shareholder negotiations led by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing IWP Capital and the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas,” the religious liberty group announced.
The legal group has been working to open up gift matching programs at major corporations. The change comes after revelations in the past several months that the SPLC was giving money to informants within extremist groups. The left-wing group would then fundraise off the supposed resurgence of those same organizations.
This tactic led the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file federal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, as Legal Insurrection has extensively covered.
The use of the center as a vetting tool for gift matching created a disparity within the company: employees could have donations matched to Planned Parenthood but not to the Family Research Council, for example.
The center also considers Alliance Defending Freedom and Turning Point USA as hateful, meaning conservative employees could not donate to those groups and have their donations matched.
Alliance Defending Freedom said this is the 55th victory in the past year alone that it has had in changing corporate giving policies:
Similar steps have been taken at Mastercard, Texas Instruments, and Salesforce—all of which, like DoorDash, agreed to remove the SPLC as a default screening agent, and Nvidia, Bank of America, Verizon, and Wells Fargo, which have opened their gift-match programs to religious charities.
This is a victory for religious freedom, Alliance Defending Freedom stated.
“Many corporations that rely on third-party administrators like Benevity and Deed may not realize those platforms use the SPLC to screen out mainstream religious charities,” Senior Counsel Jeremy Tedesco stated. “That is viewpoint discrimination—and it is precisely the kind of injustice our shareholder engagement work exists to correct.”
Noah Nash, another attorney with ADF, urged other companies to “follow DoorDash’s example and take meaningful steps that respect and protect fundamental freedoms of employees, shareholders, and customers.”
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More like Hatekeeper.
They’ve slandered and smeared huge numbers of people, and in the process limited their career opportunities. Seems like they should get sued into bankruptcy.
Unless there’s discrimination against a protected class, isn’t viewpoint discrimination lawful?
I don’t recall conservatives or conservative groups being legally classified as protected.
Or is someone bringing a disparate impact cause of action?