Re: Please register SPI as a charity with PayPal Giving Fund

Hi,

I use Humble Bundle <https://www.humblebundle.com/> often to buy game
bundles and one of the outstanding features of it is that you can make a
portion of your payment (or even all of the payment) go directly to a
charity you want to support. That way I have donated to Software Freedom
Conservancy, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Apache Software Foundation. To my surprise, the Software in the Public
Interest is not in the list of charities (as well as some other FOSS
organizations, like KDE e.V. and VideoLAN organization). Apparently
<https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/204527298> this is
because Humble Bundle lists only charities that are registered through
the PayPal
Giving Fund <https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/>, so they use that platform
to handle all the charity donations for them. It would be great if you
could register SIP as a charity with PayPal Giving Fund so that the next
time I buy a game bundle on Humble Bundle I could donate to you through
them. I'd also imagine that other websites besides Humble Bundle use
the PayPal Giving Fund service, so I think that registering with it would
turn out to be quite worthwhile for SIP.

* nurupo <nurupocontributions(at)gmail(dot)com> [2017-09-30 15:45]:
> the PayPal
> Giving Fund <https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/>, so they use that platform
> to handle all the charity donations for them. It would be great if you
> could register SIP as a charity with PayPal Giving Fund so that the next

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll look into this.

--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Hi,

Any updates on this? Have you decided that it's not worth applying to
PayPal Giving Fund?

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 7:56 AM Martin Michlmayr <tbm(at)cyrius(dot)com> wrote:

> * nurupo <nurupocontributions(at)gmail(dot)com> [2017-09-30 15:45]:
> > the PayPal
> > Giving Fund <https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/>, so they use that
> platform
> > to handle all the charity donations for them. It would be great if you
> > could register SIP as a charity with PayPal Giving Fund so that the next
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. We'll look into this.
>
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> http://www.cyrius.com/
>

nurupo wrote:
> Any updates on this? Have you decided that it's not worth applying to PayPal
> Giving Fund?

We have applied multiple times without any feedback from PayPal
regarding why the application did not get completed. We can reach out to
PayPal support to determine what the issue is.

Michael Schultheiss
Treasurer, Software in the Public Interest

--
----------------------------
Michael Schultheiss
E-mail: schultmc(at)spi-inc(dot)org

In 2017 (!) you suggested that SPI sign up for PayPal Giving Fund.
Even though we applied several times over the years, we never
received a reply from PayPal.

I'm happy to let you know that the underlying problem has finally been
resolved and we have now successfully signed up for PayPal Giving Fund.

Martin

* nurupo <nurupocontributions(at)gmail(dot)com> [2017-09-30 15:45]:
> Hi,
>
> I use Humble Bundle <https://www.humblebundle.com/> often to buy game
> bundles and one of the outstanding features of it is that you can make a
> portion of your payment (or even all of the payment) go directly to a
> charity you want to support. That way I have donated to Software Freedom
> Conservancy, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation and
> Apache Software Foundation. To my surprise, the Software in the Public
> Interest is not in the list of charities (as well as some other FOSS
> organizations, like KDE e.V. and VideoLAN organization). Apparently
> <https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/204527298> this is
> because Humble Bundle lists only charities that are registered through
> the PayPal
> Giving Fund <https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/>, so they use that platform
> to handle all the charity donations for them. It would be great if you
> could register SIP as a charity with PayPal Giving Fund so that the next
> time I buy a game bundle on Humble Bundle I could donate to you through
> them. I'd also imagine that other websites besides Humble Bundle use
> the PayPal Giving Fund service, so I think that registering with it would
> turn out to be quite worthwhile for SIP.

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