If you are getting me a present, I’d appreciate a donation in my name to any of the organizations I support:
| Organization | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Foundation | Makes and runs Wikipedia and others | Donate |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | Performs the legal work needed to keep the internet from becoming worse (lawsuits against censorship, for net neutrality etc.) | Donate |
| Mozilla | Builds the Firefox web browser, and also does the legal work needed to keep the internet from becoming worse (eg. open standards development) | Donate |
| Internet Archive | Makes backups of the websites, books, and digital media in order to preserve them for the future, especially for researchers | Donate |
| Open Media | Advocates of pro-consumer digital protection legislation in Canada. | Donate |
| Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) | Civil liberties watchdog doing the legal work in Canada. | Donate |
Alternatively, if digital/civil freedoms aren’t interesting to you:
- Anything on Give Well’s list of best charities, as measured by “most good” per dollar donated (currently topped by the Malaria Consortium)