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Risking playing the devils advocate, checking the EFFs annual financial reports shows 13M support + 1M from investment income against 7,5M total expenses (salar
by a_imho 10y ago
Risking playing the devils advocate, checking the EFFs annual financial reports shows 13M support + 1M from investment income against 7,5M total expenses (salaries being 5,3M). EFF is doing good work and Let's Encrypt is a great initiative and I'm sure they can use every dollar, I'm just wondering whether you could have a bigger impact donating your money to other organizations / developers who are worse off.
https://www.eff.org/document/fy-2014-statement-activity https://www.eff.org/document/fy-2014-statement-activity
- zeroxfe 10y ago> I'm just wondering whether you could have a bigger impact donating your money to other organizations / developers who are worse off. You certainly could. However, every donation has opportunity costs in multiple dimensions, and if you walk down the "can I have better impact somewhere else" path, you'll find it rife with circularities and get nowhere. Instead of the top N _best_ candidates to donate to, I usually look for N _good_ ones, and be done with it.
- arviewer 10y agoThe smaller the organization, the bigger the impact of your money. However that doesn't mean it will be spent better.