Hacker News with Generative AI: Nonprofits

NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals (techcrunch.com)
NaNoWriMo, a 25-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down.

Writing, Nonprofits, AI, Content Moderation, Scandals

7 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 3 comments

The Nonprofit Caught in the Fray of Trump's Attacks on Big Law (nytimes.com)
In the process of attacking big law firms this week, the Trump administration hinted at another potential target: a decades-old nonprofit that helps students land jobs on Wall Street.

Politics, Law, Nonprofits

6 points by JumpCrisscross 6 days ago | 0 comments

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt etc., sues to save funding from Trump cuts (theregister.com)
An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access.

Politics, Cybersecurity, Nonprofits, Funding, Lawsuits

14 points by defrost 9 days ago | 0 comments

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than (npr.org)
The nonprofit, founded in 1996, is a digital library of internet sites and cultural artifacts. This includes hundreds of billions of copies of government websites, news articles and data.

Internet Archive, Nonprofits, Digital Libraries, History, Culture

5 points by bentobean 10 days ago | 0 comments

Nonprofit Software Heritage maintains largest public collection of source code (softwareheritage.org)

Software, Nonprofits, Open Source, Data, Archives

6 points by ohjeez 10 days ago | 0 comments

OpenAI Nonprofit Buyout: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (astralcodexten.com)
Last month, I put out a request for experts to help me understand the details of OpenAI’s forprofit buyout. The following comes from someone who has looked into the situation in depth but is not an insider. Mistakes are mine alone.

OpenAI, Nonprofits, Business, Artificial Intelligence, Analysis

7 points by feross 21 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Should the Mozilla Foundation be forked? (ycombinator.com)
The recent ToS issues with the Mozilla Foundation [1] isn't the first time its continuing viability as an organization have come into question.

Mozilla, Forking, Open Source, Nonprofits

22 points by dabockster 30 days ago | 11 comments

The Transformative Effect of MacKenzie Scott's Big Gifts (cep.org)
Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has given more than $19 billion in unrestricted support to more than 2,000 organizations, stating that her aim “has been to support the needs of underrepresented people from groups of all kinds.”

Philanthropy, Nonprofits, Social Impact, Giving

8 points by tuanx5 42 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms (techcrunch.com)
In a court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for Elon Musk said the billionaire will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if the ChatGPT maker’s board of directors “preserve the charity’s mission” and halt the company’s conversion to a for-profit.

Elon Musk, OpenAI, AI, Nonprofits, Business

3 points by LorenDB 49 days ago | 1 comments

NCMEC Will Lose Funding Unless It Removes Mentions of LGBTQIA+ Issues (bsky.app)

LGBTQIA+, Politics, Funding, Nonprofits

8 points by hn_acker 54 days ago | 0 comments

A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop (source.coop)
Source Cooperative is a Radiant Earth initiative.

Data, Open Data, Government Data, Source.Coop, Nonprofits

139 points by dbreunig 54 days ago | 18 comments

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

147 points by teekert 78 days ago | 45 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 79 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 102 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 103 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 105 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 119 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 126 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 131 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 236 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 236 days ago | 17 comments

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

Data Breaches, Cybersecurity, Politics, Nonprofits

18 points by hn1986 267 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 289 days ago | 79 comments

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