What if you change partners?

We haven't named a partner yet — the selection is in progress against six published criteria (see /impact/choosing-a-partner), and the meal fund pools toward the $50,000/year threshold that unlocks a formal partnership. Once a partner is signed, here's the process if we ever changed it:

We'd publish the proposed change on the blog at least 90 days in advance, with the specific reasoning. Not "we're transitioning" — the actual case for why the new partner is either more effective or better fits our operating model. The blog post would include the effectiveness comparison and any relevant third-party analysis.

You would have the full 90 days to cancel your subscription with a pro-rated refund of any period you'd earmarked into the meal fund but that hadn't yet been reported in a monthly fund report. If a partner change happened mid-month, we'd process your refund immediately on request — no forfeiture of already-earmarked funds toward a partner you didn't agree to.

The first monthly fund report under the new program would carry an explicit label ("first report under new program"), so any subscriber who missed the announcement sees it in the ledger.

We would not silently rebrand or absorb a new partner into the existing "$0.80/meal" framing unless the numbers actually still worked. If the new partner had a different per-unit cost, we'd re-do the math publicly and re-anchor the marketing accordingly.

The one thing we would never do: change partners because a competitor offered us a better commercial deal, or because a partner offered us kickbacks. There are no kickbacks in play now (charity donations don't work that way), and if a future partner offered any, we'd disclose it publicly and refuse to route the money there.