Deleting an initiative

Deleting an initiative is irreversible. There is no undo and no recovery.

Only organization admins can delete. Initiative Owners cannot delete their own initiative.

Consider unpublishing instead

If the goal is to take a program out of circulation, unpublish it rather than deleting. Unpublishing hides all member-facing content and removes it from counters and statistics, but keeps everything intact and reversible.

Delete only when you're certain the initiative should cease to exist.

The confirmation gate

Because it can't be undone, deletion is gated behind a typed confirmation. You must type delete — lowercase — before the Delete button becomes available.

This applies identically whether you delete one initiative from its row, or several at once by selecting rows in the initiatives table. The bulk prompt names how many initiatives you're deleting; the confirmation requirement is the same.

Deleting several at once

1. Select the initiative rows you want to remove

2. Choose to delete the selected initiatives

3. Check the count in the prompt — it tells you exactly how many will go

4. Type delete

5. Confirm

The count in the prompt is worth reading rather than skipping. It's the last point at which a mis-click on a checkbox is still recoverable.

Related: Publishing and unpublishing an initiative · Creating an initiative · Initiative roles and permissions