Up until a couple of years ago my main charity was a regular payment to Oxfam. However I cancel this after I decided I disliked their fund-raising methods and otherwise read they were probably not in the top few percent of charities. Since then I’ve been tending to do things all in one go.
I just finished doing this year’s so I thought I’d document it here. It does feel a little weird to post about it but I’ve seen others do it. The theory I guess is that you the reader might be convinced that giving to charity is a good thing and do likewise.
My main donation was to the the top four charities rated by GiveWell:
- Against Malaria Foundation $US 150
- Schistosomiasis Control Initiative $US 150
- Deworm the World Initiative $US 150
- GiveDirectly $US 150
Next were a series of Open Source projects
- Debian $US 50
- Freedesktop.org $US 30
- LibreOffice $US 30
- OpenBSD $US 30
- Python $US 30
- Gnome $US 30
Interestingly enough I hadn’t originally intended to donate to LibreOffice and Freedesktop.org but Debian handles donations via Software in the Public Interest and those two showed up on the same donation page.
and some others
- NZ Chess Federation Olympiad appeal $NZ 100
- Ambient-Nights £ 25
- Electronic Frontier Foundation $US 25
- Wikipedia $US 30
I thought about a few others including The Internet Archive, Anki and Mozilla. Perhaps next year
