Coming up to Christmas I generally make some small donations. Some of these I ask for as Christmas gifts because I’m old and basically have very basic wants and needs so I’m hard to buy for.
Curious to hear if / what others do.
I’ve expanded my annual list to include:
- Wikipedia
- Lemmy.world (my home instance)
- Mozilla (I’m not happy with how they spend their money necessarily but I’m very thankful to have Firefox)
- Signal messenger
- A few Ukrainian things (u24.gov.ua is the official site if this is your thing but there’s a great lady on Reddit I give to occasionally too)
- The guardian (I read so many articles from there linked on here that I feel like I should and I really appreciate the lack of paywall and easy cookie rejection but never use the site logged in)
From what I’ve heard about Wikipedia’s finances they’re set for the foreseeäble and my money would be better used elsewhere.
Here’s why knowing the above i still donate to wikipedia.
Because we don’t want them to be in a position where they take money with strings attached. Imo its good for them to be reminded they serve the public first and foremost.
Yeah, Wikipedia is such a stable and positive force in the internet and directly reaches so many people. It’s easy to take it for granted but the internet would be so much incredibly worse without it.
I happily donate.
I want any organization that has shown that much commitment to making the world better to be well supported.
Here’s their audit report. 59.8% of their expenses are in
executivesalaries, a total of $107,793,960 this year. They list internet hosting as 1.7% of their expenses at $3,116,445.That salary number is all ~700 employees, not just “executives”. That averages to about 150k apiece, not unreasonable for what is probably mostly tech workers.
The total for just the executives is $88million. Leaving $19million for the 700 employees, or $27,000 each. You are donating to executives.
Edit: whoops, it’s total salary in 2021, I misread
Good lord these numbers are ludicrous
The actual total in your own link was 5.2 million for executives. The 88 million is, again, the entire salary base just in 2021. Assuming they still had 700 employees (which is a current figure, not 3 years ago) that’s still about 120k apiece for everyone else.
I can’t tell if you’re just being disingenuous or you really can’t read your own sources…
You’re right. It’s not just executives. I believed the criticism was over inflating executive salaries, but it is indeed all salaries. Wikimedia operated with a total salary of $26million in 2014 but now has salaries totalling $107million. Quadrupling their salaries in 10 years with little explanation. You’re assuming it goes to IT infrastructure workers, but they don’t explain where it actually goes.
Good find.
used to donate to the Blender foundation to support development, but I’m holding off till I am in a better place financially to resume my donation. Same goes for amnesty, mediapart and acf
Thanks for posting this! It’s a nice reminder to support some of the organizations who’s products I enjoy.
Currently I only donate to give directly
Archive.org, Wikipedia, Signal, Mozilla (I feel the same as you), and a bunch of patreons for artists.
You might be interested in supporting Nebula, which is sort of like if YouTube was a creator owned coop. Lots of good content on there and I feel good about giving them money to compete with google.
Got a recurring donation to our local Cat Rescue. It’s not much but it’s a start.
So every year I go donate Blood, since I’m Bloodtype 0. Aside froom that there are these:
- KDE
- FDroid
- Tutanota (Yes you can donate)
- Yet Zio (yet-calc App)
- My favourite Artist in Music
- A political Party which stands for Privacy
- EFF
- Tor
- Local food bank
- Local humane society
- Local wildlife recovery sanctuary
- Doctors Without Borders (during AGDQ)
- Prevent Cancer (during SGDQ)
- Trans lifeline
- Signal
I have a monthly recurring donation to the GiveWell Top Charities fund. GiveWell ranks charities by efficiency (i.e. impact per dollar) and distributes the funds donations to the most effective ones. Those include fighting malaria, world hunger, child blindness,…
Internet Archive Duplicati (FOSS backup software)
- various other small open source projects
tor project
More of a regular thing for me than annual. It’s primarily Doctors without Borders and some international charities,mainly for the middle east. A while back my wife and I paid for some wells for some villages in Pakistan.
I have a list of the OSS apps I use, on Linux, Windows and Android. Some already have some pay mechanism, but I like to donate once a year.
It’s like I’m paying for a software license for stuff that I find indispensible, e.g. Syncthing-Fork, Ditto (windows clipboard utility), Advanced Renamer, Linkwarden, etc.
I cannot afford much, but I gladly give monthly to Doctors Without Borders.
I donate a bunch of things on Marketplace (mostly baby/kids’ clothes and toys the kids outgrew). I also give to the local food banks and food drives whenever I can and think about it. If you’re specifically asking about money, I give to, and last summer fundraised for, Muscular Dystrophy Canada.
EFF Wikipedia KDE Asahi Linux Thunderbird Mozilla Archive.org Libreoffice My lemmy host Voyager
These are all one time donations, i tend to donate around 15€ a month in 5€ chunks. Some have repeated donations, other a single one. Started only a few months ago doing this
