Thread by @ehashdn

Thread 🧵 of 501(c)(3) public charities you can support instead of the @fsf, if you care about its mission:

The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) provides a fiscal home for community-governed projects like git, sponsors @outreachy, and is the only organization doing GPL enforcement: sfconservancy.org/supporter/

Software in the Public Interest (@spi_inc) provides a fiscal home for a number of FOSS projects like @debian and @FFmpeg. spi-inc.org/donations/

The Open Source Initiative (@OpenSourceOrg) [disclosure: I recently served on its board] maintains the Open Source Definition, a list of approved open source licenses, educates about open source, and much more: opensource.org/membership

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (@EFF) advocates for privacy, security, and digital liberties: supporters.eff.org/donate/join-ef…

The Freedom of the Press Foundation (@FreedomofPress) protects whistleblowers and journalists with free software like @SecureDrop and education and advocacy: freedom.press/donate/

There are many more, but I have focused this thread on umbrella organizations that overlap with certain functions of the FSF: digital rights, anti-surveillance, education, fiscal sponsorship, approved software licenses.

Please reply with awesome orgs I've missed!