You can already donate to thousands of charities (including Apache and EFF) using JustGive.org. Because they are sponsored, they are able to send 100% of your donation to the charity and there is no added service fee.
http://www.justgive.org --- Christopher Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 100% of the designated amount goes to the beneficiary, and we add a > separate 10% service fee which we hope will someday cover our > expenses. > If it's too much...then the market will drive it down. If it's too > little, then we won't be around long or we'll raise it;) If someone > can > do a better job at delivering the service, they can click the "(0)" > in > any screen of our service, download a tarball of our source, set up a > bunch of machines and compete.-Reed > > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:57:56 -0700 (PDT) > Timothy Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you know how much they skim off the top for their > > "service" fee? > > > > --- Jay Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > O.K., my bad! I went and looked and this looks like > > > a reputable site. I hope > > > the money does indeed go to the right places. > > > > > > --Jay Gardner > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jay Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:15 PM > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > Subject: RE: Money for Projects > > > > > > Sorry for the knee-jerk reaction! I am all for > > > rewarding developers for > > > their hard work. I just don't want some organization > > > skimming off the top > > > when you can just as easily contact a developer or > > > organization directly and > > > donate that way. I guess I need to go find out about > > > the service before > > > passing judgment. > > > > > > --Jay Gardner > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dahnke, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:09 PM > > > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > > > Subject: RE: Money for Projects > > > > > > > > > imo there's nothing wrong with what this person is > > > putting together. what's > > > the harm. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jay Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:57 PM > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > Subject: RE: Money for Projects > > > > > > > > > Go away and don't come back!! > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Christopher Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:00 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: OT: Money for Projects > > > > > > > > > Apologies in advance if this feels spammy. > > > > > > I have been working with a few folks on a grassroots > > > way for people to > > > donate money to various non-profits & projects such > > > as Apache, Hurd, > > > EFF, or even to a given developer. This donation > > > might be in response > > > to some helpful feedback given by that developer in > > > response to a > > > question; it might be because their name and URL > > > were in some software > > > they used. Affero takes a bit off the top for our > > > expenses , which we > > > think is reasonable given the costs involved in > > > credit card auth and the > > > like. The software used to deliver the service is > > > open source. > > > > > > Take a look at a the link I created below > > > > > > People can go to that URL and donate money, 35% of > > > which goes to the > > > Squid, 35% to XFree86 and 30% to FSF Gen Fund-GCC. > > > > > > We're very interested in any comments and feedback > > > on the > > > site/service. You can check it out at > > > http://www.affero.com. > > > BTW, we have been told that we should lower our > > > $15.00 minimum donation. > > > What do you think? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Reed > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~> How valuable is my contribution? 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