How DailyKarma Ensures Your Compliance with CA AB488

California's Assembly Bill 488 (CA AB 488) introduces stricter oversight of cause marketing campaigns and charity platforms. This law aims to enhance transparency and accountability in fundraising initiatives.

To help you navigate these changes, we've analyzed the bill and distilled the key points directly relevant to your give-back campaigns on DailyKarma.

What changes January 2025 

1. Nonprofits must be registered with our donation distribution partners Change (https://getchange.io) to be  included in Portion of Sales and Point of Sale campaigns. When you select your nonprofits in these campaigns, you will only be able to select nonprofits that have granted permission. This database features 5,500 top-rated and trending U.S. charities.

2. Nonprofits that have not registered CAN be included in all other campaign types, provided the customer is notified that the process of granting permission has not been completed. We have added this required notification to the Choose Causes / Learn More screen for you. It will only appear if you select one or more nonprofits that have not registered. Once a nonprofit claims their account at https://getchange.io/claim-my-nonprofit, we will remove the notification for you.

3. Nonprofit logos cannot be used for nonprofits that have not claimed their account and uploaded their logo. These will be replaced by default category logos until permission is obtained.

4. Nonprofits that have completed the process of registering are indicated by the “Permission Granted” flag on the Browse Nonprofits screen in your dashboard. 
   

5. To maintain compliance and ensure donations reach properly vetted international charities, all international organizations must now be onboarded and vetted through GlobalGiving. You can explore the full list of approved charities at GlobalGiving.org. International charities that are not on this list will be removed from the DailyKarma system. If you’d like to support an international cause, please review GlobalGiving’s list and let us know your preferred charity. We’ll swiftly add it to our system so you can incorporate it into your campaigns.
   
   

6. The product information that appears on the donation product on checkout, customer order summary and receipt has been updated to comply with the new law. It is important that you do not change this text, as doing so may affect your compliance status. 

What you need to do

1. Check your Portion of Sales campaigns

As of January 28, 2025, nonprofits that have not claimed their account at Change have been removed from all Portion of Sales campaigns. If a campaign also includes registered nonprofits, the campaign will remain active with those nonprofits. If the campaign only supports nonprofits that have not granted permission, it will be disconnected.

Check your Portion of Sales campaigns. If they have been disconnected, you need to select one or more nonprofits that have registered and appear in our database. Then you may reconnect the campaign(s). 

2. Check your Point of Sale campaigns for Brick and Mortar locations

As of January 28, 2025, nonprofits that have not claimed their account at Change have been removed from all Point of Sale campaigns. If a campaign also includes approved nonprofits, the campaign will remain active in the Point of Sale app with those nonprofits only. If the campaign only supports nonprofits that have not granted permission, it will be disconnected. 

Check campaigns that you have been using in the Point of Sale app. If they have been disconnected, you need to select one or more nonprofits that have provided permission and reconnect the campaign(s). 

Note, this only applies to Portion of Sales and Point of Sale campaigns. Nonprofits that have not yet granted permission can still benefit from your Donation Tiers, Round Up, $1 Donation, Custom Amount, Donate for Discount and Donate for Gift campaigns through your online store.

3. Check your campaign logos

As of January 28, 2025, logos for nonprofits that have not claimed their account at Change have been replaced in all campaigns with default logos. 

Check campaigns that are displaying logos to see if they have been replaced by default category logos and decide if you wish to remove these logos or change nonprofits.