Each year I do the majority of my Charity donations in early December, timed to be around my birthday.
I do a blog post about it to hopefully inspire others. See previous years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
All amounts are in $US unless otherwise stated.
General Charities
$895 to Givewell Top Charities fund . I’ve been donating to Givewell as my main “help the poor” charity since they have fairly low overheads and try and get the most impact from their donations. They also get good reviews for living up to these goals.
My employer matched this donation so total given to Givewell was $1790.
Software and Internet Infrastructure Projects
Software in the Public Interest, The Software Freedom Conservancy and LibreOffice all use Paypal which is blocking charity donations from Asia/Pacific so I was unable to donate to them.
- €20 to Syncthing which I use to Sync files between my computers and phone since I stopped using Dropbox.
- $50 to the Internet Archive
- $50 to the Python Software Foundation
Content creators
- $NZ 200 to The Spinoff which is a New Zealand news website. I usually donate $100/year but I did a extra $100 one-off since they are having funding problems
- $103 to Signum University mainly in since I follow of Corey Olsen’s Exploring the Lord of the Rings series and the Other Minds and Hands show.
- $US 10 to Rings & Realms: Season 2 kickstarter which is a youtube show analysing the Rings of Power TV show.
Other Projects
$NZ 100 to Greater Auckland for the Transport Advocacy and Content
Payments via Patreon / Nebula
No change from last year . I pay around $1/month to most of the below creators and I also pay $30/year for a Nebula subscription.
- The Prancing Pony Podcast who make a podcasts show about J R R Tolkien
- Zach Weinersmith who creates SMBC Comic and other stuff
- The Nerdwriter who does Youtube videos
- CGP Grey who does Youtube Videos
- City Beautiful who is creating videos about cities and city planning.
- Alt Shift X who creates Youtube videos
- RMTransit who does a Youtube channel on Transit.
- Quinn’s Ideas which is a Youtube Channel about Science Fiction (especially Dune)
- Asianometry who creates Youtube videos, mainly on Economics and the semiconductor industry.
- CityNerd who makes Videos on Cities and Transportation
