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Does something like a charity fund for FOSS exist? If not, do you think it could be a good idea?
There are a lot of awesome open source projects that I'd love to donate to, however, I can't afford to donate to all of them. It would be great if there was something like a charity fund (eg....
There are a lot of awesome open source projects that I'd love to donate to, however, I can't afford to donate to all of them.
It would be great if there was something like a charity fund (eg. GiveWell), but for FOSS. So a lot of people donate to it, and it distributes all collected money between some curated projects (most influential/important/promising/underfunded/etc.).
Do you know if something like this already exists? if not, could it potentially be a good idea to do? It seems like the idea of donating to open-source is currently more prominent in the community due to the xz backdoor thing.
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Ex-England boss Sven-Göran Eriksson said it was "absolutely beautiful" to fulfil his dream of managing Liverpool
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Novo Nordisk Foundation is entering into a partnership with Nvidia to establish a national AI research centre in Denmark – will be home to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers
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Playing Fallout 4 with only my eyes - Feat. SpecialEffect
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Sven-Göran Eriksson has been confirmed as part of the Liverpool Legends management team for their upcoming match against Ajax Legends
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Alternative or fun ways to donate to charity?
One of my financial goals for 2024 is to donate more to charity. I have a couple of major charities that I donate to once or twice a year and love the personal touch of a GoFundMe whenever someone...
One of my financial goals for 2024 is to donate more to charity. I have a couple of major charities that I donate to once or twice a year and love the personal touch of a GoFundMe whenever someone I'm in some way connected to needs help but otherwise I find it hard to get motivated to find charities to give to.
I used to donate regularly to Omaze, a Charitable organization that would count your donations as entries in raffles for the chance to win prizes. I never won and never really expected to but it made giving really fun and allowed me to reach a much wider breadth of charities than if I had done the legwork myself. Omaze is now shut down and while I'd rather not have to admit it, making donating fun or even just easier would get me to do it more often.
Does anyone have any recommendations to get my charitable motivation up other than finding worthwhile charities and manually donating myself?
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2024, a week-long charity fundraising event featuring speedruns, has begun
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Charity for profit: Brandfluence/Softgiving, the marketing agency behind some of Twitch's most successful fundraising streams quietly collected 42% of donations
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Visiting the king of Ant Island
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The Open Hand Foundation, founded in part by Jirard Khalil (The Completionist) has been keeping and storing donations for ten years
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GiveDirectly loses $900,000 in DRC mobile cash fraud
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The Jingle Jam 2023 charity Steam game bundle
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Desert Bus For Hope 2023 begins in half an hour
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I ran 365 marathons in 365 days
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How to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza
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Italy impounds three rescue ships as migrant numbers soar
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Bob Odenkirk says he’s starring in a remake of Tommy Wiseau’s ‘The Room’: ‘I tried my best to sell every line’
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The Summer Backlog Battle: Play your Steam backlog to benefit No Kid Hungry
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US states scrutinize the amount of charity spending from nonprofit hospitals in light of high salaries and large tax breaks
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-community-benefit/ POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-community-benefit/
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity.
The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. It also no longer had to pay local property taxes, taking away more than $900,000 a year from the already underfunded Pottstown School District, school officials said.
The district, about an hour’s drive from Philadelphia, had no choice but to trim expenses. It cut teacher aide positions and eliminated middle school foreign language classes.
“We have less curriculum, less coaches, less transportation,” said Superintendent Stephen Rodriguez.
The school system appealed Pottstown Hospital’s new nonprofit status, and earlier this year a state court struck down the facility’s property tax break. It cited the “eye-popping” compensation for multiple Tower Health executives as contrary to how Pennsylvania law defines a charity.
The court decision, which Tower Health is appealing, stunned the nonprofit hospital industry, which includes roughly 3,000 nongovernment tax-exempt hospitals nationwide.
“The ruling sent a warning shot to all nonprofit hospitals, highlighting that their state and local tax exemptions, which are often greater than their federal income tax exemptions, can be challenged by state and local courts,” said Ge Bai, a health policy expert at Johns Hopkins University.
The Pottstown case reflects the growing scrutiny of how much the nation’s nonprofit hospitals spend — and on what — to justify billions in state and federal tax breaks. In exchange for these savings, hospitals are supposed to provide community benefits, like care for those who can’t afford it and free health screenings.
More than a dozen states have considered or passed legislation to better define charity care, to increase transparency about the benefits hospitals provide, or, in some cases, to set minimum financial thresholds for charitable help to their communities.
The growing interest in how tax-exempt hospitals operate — from lawmakers, the public, and the media — has coincided with a stubborn increase in consumers’ medical debt. KFF Health News reported last year that more than 100 million Americans are saddled with medical bills they can’t pay, and has documented aggressive bill-collection practices by hospitals, many of them nonprofits.
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Graeme Souness, 70, of Liverpool and Scotland fame swims English Channel for charity
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Summer Games Done Quick 2023, a week-long charity fundraising event featuring speedruns, has begun
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From playwright to pandemic Queen: How D’Arcy Drollinger became the first drag laureate
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Murhaf raises $230,000 selling charity flower pins in Sweden – sales skyrocket after a viral post about the boy, and a racist backlash, only brings in more money
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The rich have their own ethics: Effective altruism and the crypto crash
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Humble Türkiye-Syria Earthquake Relief Bundle
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'Everything Everywhere' props auctioned to support low-income Asians and trans community
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The world's biggest charity speedrunning [GDQ] event just banned Hogwarts Legacy
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Amazon discontinues charity donation program amid cost cuts
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‘You have to learn to listen’: How a doctor cares for Boston’s homeless
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2023, a week-long charity fundraising event featuring speedruns, has begun
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ABBA's massive 1979 hit Chiquitita has never earned the Swedish supergroup a penny – Björn Ulvaeus gave the copyright to Unicef
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Altruism and development - It's complicated
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Yogscast Jingle Jam 2022 Games Collection
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OneWhale charity aims to establish first open water safe haven in a reserve for whales, including a Russian beluga that went viral on YouTube
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"LGB Alliance" found to violate UK nonprofit code
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Last year I secretly ghost-wrote and published my best friend's autobiography as a joke. This year I recorded the audiobook version using a deepfake of his voice, and released it for charity.
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Summer Games Done Quick 2022, a charity speedrunning marathon, has begun
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A major update in our assessment of water quality interventions
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How war in Ukraine is making people hungry in the Middle East
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Book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
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Automotive journalist Victoria Scott plays Need For Speed: Underground for fourteen hours and raises over $40,000 for trans kids in Texas
@victoria scott: Coming back to update this since it's still getting RTs - we BEAT the game, all 112 races, we raised FORTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS for trans kids in the South, and my friends and everyone there cheering and donating and watching was incredible and amazing and I love them so much!!!
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JLA/Avengers to be reprinted for charity
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So you want to run a microgrants program
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 has raised $3,416,729 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation
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Finnish teacher Ilona Taimela secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text through the Lifelong Learning Foundation
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Which are the most effective climate change nonprofits?
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Desert Bus For Hope 2021 begins in less than six hours
DBFH is "the Internet's longest running charity marathon." For fifteen years now, they've fundraised on behalf of Child's Play Charity for children who live in hospitals and in shelters for...
DBFH is "the Internet's longest running charity marathon." For fifteen years now, they've fundraised on behalf of Child's Play Charity for children who live in hospitals and in shelters for victims of domestic violence.
The event runs continuously, 24h/day on their twitch channel for an expected period of roughly one week. During this time, unpaid volunteer entertainers play games, do contests and comedy bits, take challenges from chat for songs, dances, readings, etc. and call-ins from guests while simultaneously raffling and auctioning various game culture and pop culture related items donated by sponsors or made throughout the year by unpaid volunteer crafters.
Every year it's a really good time with a great community, so for those who weren't aware of the event I thought I'd mention it here. Last year alone the community managed to raise more than one million US dollars, and more than 7.1 million dollars throughout the life of the project so far, entirely for charity. Hope folks from here would like to join in and (if you can) donate (responsibly).
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Satanic Delco founder on the group’s ‘To Hell with Homelessness’ campaign
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#TeamSeas seeking $30M for Ocean Conservatory
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