Ask HN: Firefox, Wikipedia and Khan Academy are looking for donations right now

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Is there a single organisation that you can contribute to and then that will disperse the money to a group of non-profits like Firefox, Wikipedia, Khan Academy etc.

Kinda like a Humble Bundle for non profits?

If it doesn't exist and enough people think it is a good idea, does anyone want to create it with me?

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Personally I have never liked the idea of a middleman when it comes to charity, among other things. Similar to how micro payments can work well only with really low transaction fees, charity needs a low overhead to make proper sense. If your goal is to help small organisations that need donations, then improving on micro-payment technology would be a good start. In fact, this could better allow individual contributors of open-source projects to be compensated, which is something that has been needed for a long time now. If you think about it rationally, who is currently being compensated the least for their efforts -- individual hands or the central websites that benefit from these hands?

The goal is to help people who want to donate but don't want to manage 10+ separate donations

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