Too bad the norm for FLOSS foundations is to take donations and use it for anything and everything except the purpose the foundation was created to promote.
Datasette-lite is another way to support client-side search and faceting of data like a list of open source projects with attributes, in YAML-LD in git, but SQLite with sqlite-utils.
FUNDING.yml is the GitHub Sponsors way to support donations:
Open Source sponsoring organizations like NumFOCUS, LFX Platform, and LF Charities (Linux Foundation) could crawl GitHub Sponsors FUNDING.yml documents to build Donate pages.
Test as a normal human customer in through the front door like everyone else;
I want to donate with a DAF or a QCD,
How do I find the EIN for a nonprofit corporation in the US?
>> Donate cash, stock, crypto, or complex assets to your giving account when it's most tax-efficient. It’s all tax-deductible upon receipt and on one tax statement at year-end.
>> Make employees the authors of your impact story with personal and corporate donor-advised funds.
>> Provide tax-smart charitable stipends to employees, automate matching gifts, and enable equity donations.*
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 19.4 ms ] threadSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032
NumFOCUS has Sponsored Projects: https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects and Affiliated Projects: https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects/affiliated-projects
Datasette-lite is another way to support client-side search and faceting of data like a list of open source projects with attributes, in YAML-LD in git, but SQLite with sqlite-utils.
FUNDING.yml is the GitHub Sponsors way to support donations:
"How to add a FUNDING.yml to github orgs and org/repos" https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...
Open source projects can link to a "Custom URL" in a GitHub organization or project's FUNDING.yml file to add a "Donate" button.
From https://github.com/sponsors :
> Support the developers who power open source
> button text: See your top dependencies
> button text: Get sponsored
Open Source sponsoring organizations like NumFOCUS, LFX Platform, and LF Charities (Linux Foundation) could crawl GitHub Sponsors FUNDING.yml documents to build Donate pages.
Test as a normal human customer in through the front door like everyone else;
I want to donate with a DAF or a QCD,
How do I find the EIN for a nonprofit corporation in the US?
/? "$project" "EIN"
/? ein donor advised fund :
DAF: Donor Advised Fund
QCD: Qualified Charitable Donation (from an IRA)
DAF pros and cons: [ https://smartasset.com/investing/donor-advised-funds-pros-an... , ]
"Ten of America’s 20 Top Public Charities Are Donor-Advised Funds" (2024) https://inequality.org/article/top-public-charities-dafs/
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189240 :
- CharityVest: https://www.charityvest.org/ :
>> Donate cash, stock, crypto, or complex assets to your giving account when it's most tax-efficient. It’s all tax-deductible upon receipt and on one tax statement at year-end.
>> Make employees the authors of your impact story with personal and corporate donor-advised funds.
>> Provide tax-smart charitable stipends to employees, automate matching gifts, and enable equity donations.*
- TheGivingBlock handles (crypto) charitable donations to and for nonprofits: https://thegivingblock.com/
W3C Web Monetization could solve for nonprofit donations too, I think. https://WebMonetization.org/
Web Monetization handles micropayments with low fees (with ILP Interledger Protocol, like FedNow) with an open standard;
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