Watsi Lands $1.5M Donation From Humble Bundle

I agree, these organizations are great. Speaking as a long-term software engineer at Kiva, I've come to see there is always a fine balance on what to update on and how frequent to update people. For the what, there are many concerns, namely privacy. For the frequency, we've tried to allow users a lot of choice in choosing how often to be updated, but then it's still a question of how much resources should the charity spend on getting updates. It is usually going to cost someone's time and money to gather updates, whether the charity in question or the partner they are working with in the field, or both. So, one has to think critically on how to balance spending money on that with spending money on the actual help to people. Granted, the exciting thing is that as the people these charities are helping get more connected to online networks, there is more opportunity for them to make their own choices in regards to when and on what to update the people who are helping them.