#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:
@Mastodon please tell this more often: "Most people don’t realize the core developer team of Mastodon is still just two people, and it is these last donations that have allowed us to open a third full-time developer position."
Today I learned that LEGO has a program where you can send them your old LEGO (bricks, pieces, mini-figs, etc). LEGO will then take them in, wash / sterilize them, and donate them to children in need!
Dr. Ruth Gottesman, on donating $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine so all students can attend tuition-free:
Dr. Gottesman’s husband died in 2022 at age 96. “He left me, unbeknownst to me, a whole portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock,” she recalled. The instructions were simple: “Do whatever you think is right with it."
Merry Christmas (to those who celebrate) and Happy Holidays (for everyone else) from #tilvids 🎄 ❄️
In the spirit of holiday giving, consider donating to the @joinpeertube organization. They are trying to raise funds to advance the cause of freedom from large tech companies. Their work helps make #PeerTube instances like TILvids possible. If you're able to contribute, check out the following link:
I’ve been slow putting this together this month because honestly the last bunch of donations have lasted (THANK YOU!), but here’s the Amazon kitty donation list for March!
Things have been rough in the rescue community lately — I can’t take kittens until I get the older kittens and cats adopted, and I know I’m not alone. If you can, please consider adopting from your local rescue!
We are immensely grateful to all those who donated. Your generosity will keep KDE running another year.
We have added two stretch goals, one will help us fund new designs for Plasma and our apps. The other will keep basic services running, and contribute to growing our userbase beyond the FLOSS-o-verse.
Irregular reminder that Open-Source and truly free projects need your help.
If you got a few bucks to spare, consider donating to a project you love to use. Your fedi instance, Signal, an Android ROM, maybe the niche but really cool desktop app you found recently.
I didn't share it anywhere publicly yet, but I already received around 2000€ of donations (including open collective and private) for the last couple of months.
It's a huge support, unbelievable and heartwarming experience. It gives me hope and time to keep doing what is important and right.
As we enter a new year, I'd like to remind everyone that Mastodon servers are run by admins/co-admins and those servers cost money to run and to keep going.
If you can support your instance, we as admins would certainly be grateful and thankful as it allows us to keep providing the service that we provide.
You can make a one time donation or subscribe monthly to #AllThingsTech via the link below and all money goes to server costs!
Does anyone around SF/northern Peninsula know a place that accepts donations of toddler toys (all still in good condition). We're in need of a purge and I'm hoping to send them off to others who will still enjoy them.
(And I don't have the time or energy to make individual arrangements on like a Buy Nothing group.)
This is just a friendly reminder that we as instances here on Mastodon do NOT run ads or track and sell any of your data. Most all instances and their services are paid for directly out of the owners pockets, therefore donations are greatly appreciated as they go to fully support the instance you are using and enjoy.
If you can, consider supporting your instance admins! Even $5 goes a long way!
Lovely people, a video platform like #MakerTube will only have a future when there are enough #donations to cover at least the permanent costs like servers.
I'm willing to pay for it for now but at some point it needs to be sustainable. It also needs to grow.
Please consider making a #donation, every penny counts! Even better is a small recurring donation and I can make a forecast for a few months. There is a crowdfunding campaign at https://liberapay.com/MakerTube
Thanks for your support! #peertube
I’ve updated my foster kitty food donation list for February! I might start posting a Chewy list too, especially since Amazon can be hit or miss with stocking dry food. As of this week we have people interested in adopting Butter Pecan (no thoughts only orange) and Madelyne (tortitude), so hopefully we’ll have more kitties in homes soon. Thank you all so much for helping!
Last December, we launched our #donations campaign to accelerate Jami's progress. Five months later, we want to share with you a summary of our campaign, as stated in our commitment to publish a full report to all donors. 🙂
The entire Jami team would like to warmly thank all contributors.❤️
Want to know more about the progress campaign so far? Read our article :
@mutualaid The urgency cannot be overstateed as rent which is due in a week. Please, include 🏘️ in memo so I know where this goes. They've already dealt with eviction threats in the past and they can't deal with this again. Venmo/PayPal: @seelpah / CashApp: $SeelpahC
Please keep donating because the crisis is beyond high, the needs are many & we need to show our global humanity over cruel geopolitics & BS power games by government asshats.