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Diversifying income is something every responsible non-profit should be doing, and that's what this is. If I were you I'd be more worried if we didn't do someth
by jaas 10y ago
Diversifying income is something every responsible non-profit should be doing, and that's what this is. If I were you I'd be more worried if we didn't do something like this.
The bulk of our support comes from corporate sponsorship, another component is grants, and the third is individual donations. Individual donations are likely always going to be our smallest source of revenue but it's still an important source to develop.
We'll be around. Go ahead with your rollout, I hope it goes smoothly and that it inspires you to contribute back what you can.
- magila 10y agoAlthough it's not really intended for this sort of thing, I wonder if you could shoehorn Let's Encrypt into Patreon. If you're just trying to diversify your revenue it seems like Patreon would provide a more predictable cashflow than doing periodic crowdfunding campaigns.
- seeekr 10y agoThey could just offer a simple subscription (yearly or monthly) with user-chosen price tag, aka recurring donation. Call it "individual sponsorship", make a pretty login window and a little dashboard once logged in, that's it. Like if we had to pay for a subscription to use LE, except we don't need to.
- daveguy 10y agoYes! Patreon, Paypal, anything that has the ability to give a recurring donation. If they can get 20,000 people giving $5 a month then they have half their recurring costs. This is something I would consider giving at least $5/mo to along with wikipedia, united way, NPR, etc. Some efforts are just worth giving money to and recurring donations would be a lot more stable and valuable (even if smaller up front) than a one time $200,000 fundraising.
- bobjob 10y agoThats what you can via Paypal from there donation page ... And thats how they get 0.50$ every month(it is a small private, non profit site, otherwise it would be more).