Listen, we're talking about a company with over 50,000 employees and 1,200 branch offices. They matched an employee's donation to his choice of "charity". They regretted it (letter sent 2004) and instituted a policy of neutrality with controversial organizations.
Given the size of the business, this sounds to me like they are trying in good faith.
OK. I got tired of hearsay...you say this...my source says that...so I went to the horse's mouth...well, the horse's hoof, anyway. I didn't call LDI, but I looked up their report they put out 6x a year--The Caleb Report.
Their March-April '06 issue was commenting upon misleading feedback from corporations that LDI receives. On page 5 -- here's the URL http://www.fightpp.org/downloads/pubs/March-April-ws3.pdf --and the Report's author was responding to several companies' feedback, two of which I found interesting in light of your claim that your company's gift was only a matching gift to an employee's gift:
So according to LDI's Caleb Report--note the bold-face below (BTW, I have no idea if these companies are still on the boycott list...again this was from Spring '06): Lora Welch Phillips of Symantec’s Community Relations and Corporate Philanthropy department, references the company’s Matching Gift Program, but LDI does not track such donations. LDI does, however, track gifts-in-kind...[page 5] [Then in regard to another company, LDI repeats its policy on page 6]: And LDI does not track grants made to Planned Parenthood via a Matching Gift Program. (p. 6)
Now, mind you, I'm not saying that what you say didn't happen at your place of work...I'm just saying from the Horse's Hoof that perhaps your place of work didn't drop the other shoe in 'fessin' up to you as to a certain additional gift...and that newsletter does say it'll include boycotts due to gifts by regional offices as well as in-kind gifts. How do you know that one of those 1,200 branch offices you mention didn't give a donation that wasn't a matching gift?