Hacker News with Generative AI: Non-profit Organizations

Mastodon's founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
Mastodon announced Monday that it's shifting its structure over the next six months to become wholly owned by a European nonprofit organization—

Social Media, Decentralization, Non-profit Organizations

8 points by gpi 4 days ago | 2 comments

Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO (joinmastodon.org)
Mastodon is taking important steps to ensure its legal and operational structures better reflect and support the pursuit of these ideals.

Social Media, Non-profit Organizations, Leadership, Europe

352 points by andypiper 5 days ago | 141 comments

Stay Safe from Wildfires When Seconds Count (watchduty.org)
Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

Wildfires, Safety, Technology, Non-profit Organizations, Emergency Response

8 points by mooreds 9 days ago | 1 comments

A Note from Our Executive Director (letsencrypt.org)
The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen.

Non-profit Organizations, Annual Reports, Leadership

31 points by soheilpro 37 days ago | 8 comments

Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off (theregister.com)
The Mozilla Foundation is laying off about a third of its staff. The non-profit org, which oversees the corporation that develops the Firefox web browser, insists it will continue its advocacy mission, though its approach may change.

Mozilla, Non-profit Organizations, Layoffs, Technology, Web Browsers

13 points by urlwolf 44 days ago | 4 comments

Mozilla Foundation lays off third of staff (theregister.com)
The Mozilla Foundation is laying off about a third of its staff. The non-profit org, which oversees the corporation that develops the Firefox web browser, insists it will continue its advocacy mission, though its approach may change.

Mozilla Foundation, Layoffs, Non-profit Organizations, Web Browsers

12 points by chacha102 73 days ago | 2 comments

Democratising publishing (onolan.org)
Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.

Publishing, Open Source, Non-profit Organizations

174 points by mxstbr 80 days ago | 50 comments

Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds (oxfam.org)
Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C.

World Bank, Climate Finance, Transparency, Accountability, Non-profit Organizations

344 points by wallbrownf 82 days ago | 139 comments

Jupyter Transitioning from NumFOCUS to the Linux Foundation (medium.com)
We are writing to inform you of an important change involving one of our projects. After many years as a NumFOCUS project, Jupyter will be transitioning to the Linux Foundation.

Jupyter, Linux Foundation, Open Source, Software, Non-profit Organizations

6 points by rossant 93 days ago | 1 comments

Who Pays for the Arts? (esquire.com)
In the U.S., the arts are subsidized by the very wealthy and the very poor. But amid ongoing turmoil in the nonprofit world, some people are trying to build a new creative economy.

Arts Funding, Non-profit Organizations, Economics, Creative Industries

136 points by Caiero 107 days ago | 320 comments

Open research Europe: Towards a collective open access publishing service (europa.eu)
This report puts forward a vision for Open Research Europe as a collective non-profit open access publishing service for the public good.

Research, Europe, Non-profit Organizations

27 points by nabla9 121 days ago | 14 comments

One Laptop per Child (wikipedia.org)

Education, Non-profit Organizations, Developing World

20 points by tosh 144 days ago | 21 comments

Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years (venturebeat.com)

Non-profit Organizations, Technology, Business

207 points by ushakov 192 days ago | 481 comments

Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder (locals.com)