Coming up to Christmas I generally make some small donations. Some of these I ask for as Christmas gifts because I’m old and basically have very basic wants and needs so I’m hard to buy for.

Curious to hear if / what others do.

I’ve expanded my annual list to include:

  • Wikipedia
  • Lemmy.world (my home instance)
  • Mozilla (I’m not happy with how they spend their money necessarily but I’m very thankful to have Firefox)
  • Signal messenger
  • A few Ukrainian things (u24.gov.ua is the official site if this is your thing but there’s a great lady on Reddit I give to occasionally too)
  • The guardian (I read so many articles from there linked on here that I feel like I should and I really appreciate the lack of paywall and easy cookie rejection but never use the site logged in)
  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    5 days ago

    I’m a tech guy but also vegan and hate that I probably don’t do much for animals so:

    • Direct Action Everywhere
    • Sea Shepherd

    I like them because both kind of kick ass at what they do.

    I’d like to donate to the Humane Society but the local one is drowning in cash so I’d rather find one somewhere in the sticks (my hometown?) and donate to them.

  • Decency8401@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    So every year I go donate Blood, since I’m Bloodtype 0. Aside froom that there are these:

    • KDE
    • FDroid
    • Tutanota (Yes you can donate)
    • Yet Zio (yet-calc App)
    • My favourite Artist in Music
    • A political Party which stands for Privacy
    • EFF
    • Tor
  • HANN@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Thanks for posting this! It’s a nice reminder to support some of the organizations who’s products I enjoy.

    Currently I only donate to give directly

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    I have this fun strategy, I’ll save my charity money until there is a public call for action, then I dump a larger sum all at once.

    For instance my work during covid set up a (money only) drive for a food bank that corporate would match. My bosses donated 200 a piece, until they noticed that I donated 1000, then they all found it in their hearts to donate 1000 too. Turned that 1000 bucks into about 8000.

  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    used to donate to the Blender foundation to support development, but I’m holding off till I am in a better place financially to resume my donation. Same goes for amnesty, mediapart and acf

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I donate to my local food bank. I worked in their hydroponics garden a few years ago and saw how much work goes into providing food for the needy. They need all the help they can get.

    I also donate time and energy and a bit of money on a specific horse at the stables I volunteer at. She’s an old mare with an owner who doesn’t give a shit about her. Nobody really does anything with her other than me and another person, and that other person only lets her out to graze. I exercise the horse, groom her, give her lots of attention, and I got her a winter blanket recently.

  • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Money

    • My local NPR station
    • InRangeTV

    Time

    • Wikipedia

    I don’t have a lot to give. If I did, I would also include:

    • Linux Mint
    • GIMP
    • Darktable
    • Inkscape
    • Open Medicine Foundation
    • Election Science
    • LibreOffice
    • zirk.us
    • midwest.social
    • Strong Towns