Hacker News with Generative AI: Nonprofits

Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet (proton.me)
This year’s Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser was a record-breaking success, generating over $1 million to directly support organizations fighting for privacy, freedom of expression, and human rights worldwide.

Privacy, Human Rights, Nonprofits, Fundraising, Internet

146 points by teekert 4 days ago | 44 comments

Mastodon's CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization (theverge.com)
Decentralized social network Mastodon has announced plans to transfer its ownership to a new nonprofit entity.

Social Media, Decentralization, Nonprofits, Mastodon

23 points by ossusermivami 5 days ago | 3 comments

MacKenzie Scott donates over $2B in 2024 to 199 organizations (yieldgiving.com)
I love words, and this year this one has been on my mind a lot. It’s another one that seems to have undergone a kind of semantic shriveling.

Philanthropy, Donations, Nonprofits

81 points by Geekette 27 days ago | 92 comments

Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab (techcrunch.com)
Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab

Cybersecurity, Nonprofits, Apple, Spyware

112 points by latexr 28 days ago | 35 comments

Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is becoming a nonprofit (techcrunch.com)
Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (i.e., the open social web), which includes sites like Mastodon and others, will be the first app incubated within a new nonprofit called A New Social.

Social Media, Open Source, Nonprofits

13 points by ZacnyLos 30 days ago | 0 comments

Save Standard Time (savestandardtime.com)
Permanent Standard Time is best for health, safety, sports, education, productivity, wages, environment, and civil liberties. Save Standard Time is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, donor-funded, volunteer-supported effort to preserve and extend the observation of longitudinally correct Standard Time.

Time Zones, Public Policy, Nonprofits, Health

5 points by baxtr 45 days ago | 3 comments

Tell the Senate: Don't Weaponize the Treasury Department Against Nonprofits (eff.org)
Last week the House of Representatives passed a dangerous bill that would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status.

Nonprofits, Politics, Law, Government, United States

13 points by hn_acker 51 days ago | 0 comments

What We Learned from Red Teaming Our Top Charities (givewell.org)
Our four top charities — Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), the Against Malaria Foundation’s (AMF) insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution, Helen Keller International’s (Helen Keller) vitamin A supplementation (VAS), and New Incentives’ conditional cash transfers to increase infant vaccination — have received over one billion dollars in funding based on our recommendations.

Philanthropy, Nonprofits, Research, Charity Evaluation

47 points by ctoth 56 days ago | 21 comments

Elon Musk's X just sued a nonprofit advertising group out of existence (cnn.com)

Elon Musk, Lawsuits, Nonprofits, Social Media, Advertising

10 points by Gys 161 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Musk's X just sued a nonprofit advertising group out of existence (cnn.com)

Elon Musk, Nonprofits, Lawsuits, Social Media

16 points by wumeow 162 days ago | 17 comments

Hackvists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (cyberscoop.com)

Data Breaches, Cybersecurity, Politics, Nonprofits

18 points by hn1986 192 days ago | 2 comments

Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model (arstechnica.com)

Privacy, Nonprofits, Technology, Software, Proton

187 points by m-watson 215 days ago | 79 comments

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit (techcrunch.com)