Like in 2016 and 2015 I am blogging about my charity donations.
The majority of donations were done during December (I start around my birthday) although after my credit card got suspended last year I spread them across several days.
The inspiring others bit seems to have worked a little. Ed Costello has blogged his donations for 2017.
I’ll note that throughout the year I’ve also been giving money via Patreon to several people whose online content I like. I suspended these payments in early-December but they have backed down on the change so I’ll probably restart them in early 2018.
As usual my main donation was to Givewell. This year I gave to them directly and allowed them to allocate to projects as they wish.
- $US 600 to Givewell (directly for their allocation)
In march I gave to two organization I follow online. Transport Blog re-branded themselves as “Greater Auckland” and is positioning themselves as a lobbying organization as well as news site.
Signum University produce various education material around science-fiction, fantasy and medieval literature. In my case I’m following their lectures on Youtube about the Lord of the Rings.
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$NZ 100 to Transport Blog re-branding on pledgeme
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$US 103 to Signum University
I gave some money to the Software Conservancy to allocate across their projects and again to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their online advocacy.
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$US 120 to Software Conservancy
- $US 25 to Electronic Frontier Foundation
and lastly I gave to various Open Source Projects that I regularly use.
