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Awesome Donations: A repository of FLOSS donation options

Mountain_Skies 2y ago
Too bad the norm for FLOSS foundations is to take donations and use it for anything and everything except the purpose the foundation was created to promote.
- DriftRegion 2y ago
  Hi, source?
meonkeys 2y ago
Check out https://floss.fund https://floss.fund too. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032
westurner 2y ago
Jupyter is now with LF Charities, with a new 501(c) EIN: https://github.com/jupyter/governance/issues/204#issuecomment-2486846048 https://github.com/jupyter/governance/issues/204#issuecommen... NumFOCUS has Sponsored Projects: https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects and Affiliated Projects: https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects/affiliated-projects https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects/affiliated-projects Datasette-lite is another way to support client-side search and faceting of data like a list of open source projects with attributes, in YAML-LD in git, but SQLite with sqlite-utils. FUNDING.yml is the GitHub Sponsors way to support donations: "How to add a FUNDING.yml to github orgs and org/repos" https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository#about-funding-files https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi... Open source projects can link to a "Custom URL" in a GitHub organization or project's FUNDING.yml file to add a "Donate" button. From https://github.com/sponsors https://github.com/sponsors : > Support the developers who power open source > button text: See your top dependencies > button text: Get sponsored Open Source sponsoring organizations like NumFOCUS, LFX Platform, and LF Charities (Linux Foundation) could crawl GitHub Sponsors FUNDING.yml documents to build Donate pages. Test as a normal human customer in through the front door like everyone else; I want to donate with a DAF or a QCD, How do I find the EIN for a nonprofit corporation in the US? /? "$project" "EIN" /? ein donor advised fund : DAF: Donor Advised Fund QCD: Qualified Charitable Donation (from an IRA) DAF pros and cons: [ https://smartasset.com/investing/donor-advised-funds-pros-and-cons https://smartasset.com/investing/donor-advised-funds-pros-an... , ] "Ten of America’s 20 Top Public Charities Are Donor-Advised Funds" (2024) https://inequality.org/article/top-public-charities-dafs/ https://inequality.org/article/top-public-charities-dafs/ From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189240 : - CharityVest: https://www.charityvest.org/ https://www.charityvest.org/ : >> Donate cash, stock, crypto, or complex assets to your giving account when it's most tax-efficient. It’s all tax-deductible upon receipt and on one tax statement at year-end. >> Make employees the authors of your impact story with personal and corporate donor-advised funds. >> Provide tax-smart charitable stipends to employees, automate matching gifts, and enable equity donations.* - TheGivingBlock handles (crypto) charitable donations to and for nonprofits: https://thegivingblock.com/ https://thegivingblock.com/ W3C Web Monetization could solve for nonprofit donations too, I think. https://WebMonetization.org/ https://WebMonetization.org/ Web Monetization handles micropayments with low fees (with ILP Interledger Protocol, like FedNow) with an open standard; Web Monetization > Monetizing a web page: https://webmonetization.org/specification/#monetizing-a-web-page https://webmonetization.org/specification/#monetizing-a-web-... : <link rel="monetization" href="https://example.com/pay" onmonetization="sayThanks(this)" > <script> function sayThanks(monetizedLink) { // Do something here } </script> Maybe some links to obviously relevant and manually tangential wikipedia pages about concepts described herein and herewith: Charitable organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization Philanthropy in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_in_the_United_Sta... Philanthropy > Criticism, Differences between traditional and new philanthropy > Promoting equity through science and health philanthropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy#Promoting_equity_through_science_and_health_philanthropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy#Promoting_equity_... Nonprofit organization > Fundraising, Problems, tech support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization#Fundraising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization#Fundrai... Non-profit technology > Uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_technology#Uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_technology#Uses : > [Computers and Internets,;] volunteer management and support, donor management, client tracking and support, project management, human resources (paid staff) management, financial accounting, program evaluation, research, marketing, activism and collaboration. Nonprofit organizations that engage in income-generation activities, such as ticket sales, may also use technology for these functions.
752963e64 2y ago
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Too bad the norm for FLOSS foundations is to take donations and use it for anything and everything except the purpose the foundation was created to promote.

DriftRegion 2y ago
Hi, source?

meonkeys 2y ago

Check out https://floss.fund https://floss.fund too. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032

westurner 2y ago

Jupyter is now with LF Charities, with a new 501(c) EIN: https://github.com/jupyter/governance/issues/204#issuecomment-2486846048 https://github.com/jupyter/governance/issues/204#issuecommen... NumFOCUS has Sponsored Projects: https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects and Affiliated Projects: https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects/affiliated-projects https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects/affiliated-projects Datasette-lite is another way to support client-side search and faceting of data like a list of open source projects with attributes, in YAML-LD in git, but SQLite with sqlite-utils. FUNDING.yml is the GitHub Sponsors way to support donations: "How to add a FUNDING.yml to github orgs and org/repos" https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository#about-funding-files https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi... Open source projects can link to a "Custom URL" in a GitHub organization or project's FUNDING.yml file to add a "Donate" button. From https://github.com/sponsors https://github.com/sponsors : > Support the developers who power open source > button text: See your top dependencies > button text: Get sponsored Open Source sponsoring organizations like NumFOCUS, LFX Platform, and LF Charities (Linux Foundation) could crawl GitHub Sponsors FUNDING.yml documents to build Donate pages. Test as a normal human customer in through the front door like everyone else; I want to donate with a DAF or a QCD, How do I find the EIN for a nonprofit corporation in the US? /? "$project" "EIN" /? ein donor advised fund : DAF: Donor Advised Fund QCD: Qualified Charitable Donation (from an IRA) DAF pros and cons: [ https://smartasset.com/investing/donor-advised-funds-pros-and-cons https://smartasset.com/investing/donor-advised-funds-pros-an... , ] "Ten of America’s 20 Top Public Charities Are Donor-Advised Funds" (2024) https://inequality.org/article/top-public-charities-dafs/ https://inequality.org/article/top-public-charities-dafs/ From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189240 : - CharityVest: https://www.charityvest.org/ https://www.charityvest.org/ : >> Donate cash, stock, crypto, or complex assets to your giving account when it's most tax-efficient. It’s all tax-deductible upon receipt and on one tax statement at year-end. >> Make employees the authors of your impact story with personal and corporate donor-advised funds. >> Provide tax-smart charitable stipends to employees, automate matching gifts, and enable equity donations.* - TheGivingBlock handles (crypto) charitable donations to and for nonprofits: https://thegivingblock.com/ https://thegivingblock.com/ W3C Web Monetization could solve for nonprofit donations too, I think. https://WebMonetization.org/ https://WebMonetization.org/ Web Monetization handles micropayments with low fees (with ILP Interledger Protocol, like FedNow) with an open standard; Web Monetization > Monetizing a web page: https://webmonetization.org/specification/#monetizing-a-web-page https://webmonetization.org/specification/#monetizing-a-web-... : <link rel="monetization" href="https://example.com/pay" onmonetization="sayThanks(this)" > <script> function sayThanks(monetizedLink) { // Do something here } </script> Maybe some links to obviously relevant and manually tangential wikipedia pages about concepts described herein and herewith: Charitable organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization Philanthropy in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_in_the_United_Sta... Philanthropy > Criticism, Differences between traditional and new philanthropy > Promoting equity through science and health philanthropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy#Promoting_equity_through_science_and_health_philanthropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy#Promoting_equity_... Nonprofit organization > Fundraising, Problems, tech support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization#Fundraising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization#Fundrai... Non-profit technology > Uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_technology#Uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_technology#Uses : > [Computers and Internets,;] volunteer management and support, donor management, client tracking and support, project management, human resources (paid staff) management, financial accounting, program evaluation, research, marketing, activism and collaboration. Nonprofit organizations that engage in income-generation activities, such as ticket sales, may also use technology for these functions.

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