Donations 2020

Each year I do the majority of my Charity donations in early December (just after my birthday) spread over a few days (so as not to get my credit card suspended).

I also blog about it to hopefully inspire others. See: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

All amounts this year are in $US unless otherwise stated

My main donations was $750 to Givewell (to allocate to projects as they prioritize). Once again I’m happy that Givewell make efficient use of money donated. I decided this year to give a higher proportion of my giving to them than last year.

Software and Internet Infrastructure Projects

€20 to Syncthing which I’ve started to use instead of Dropbox.

$50 each to the Software Freedom Conservancy and Software in the Public Interest . Money not attached to any specific project.

$51 to the Internet Archive

$25 to Let’s Encrypt

Advocacy Organisations

$50 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Others including content creators

I donated $103 to Signum University to cover Corey Olsen’s Exploring the Lord of the Rings series plus other stuff I listen to that they put out.

I paid $100 to be a supporter of NZ News site The Spinoff

I also supported a number of creators on Patreon:

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