[extropy-chat] Draft List of "Transhumanist" Themed Charities

[Jay Dugger]

Saturday, 01 January 2005

Hello all:

     After soliciting suggestions from both lists late last year, I
did a little research of my own. Below find a list of "transhumanist"
themed charities. I admit to using a vague term. It might mean at most
a list of charities that most self-described transhumanists would
consider worthy beneficiaries. Some examples of rejected charities
follow at the list's end.If you've more suggestions, please post them
back to the list.

Charities

    * Future Studies
          o ~ Foundation for the Future <http://ww.foundationfuture.org>
          o ~ Foresight Institute <http://www.foresight.org>
    * Life Extension
          o ~ Methuselah Mouse Prize <http://www.mprize.org>
          o ~ Immortality Institute <http://www.imminst.org>
    * Intelligence Increase
          o ~ Singularity Institute <http://www.singinst.org>
    * Other
          o ~ WTA <http://transhumanism.org>
          o ~ Extropy Institute <http://extropy.org>
          o ~ TV 2005 Scholarship Fund
            <http://www.transhumanismo.org/tv05/registration.htm>
    * Social Studies
          o Ethics
                + ~ Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
                  <http://CRNano.org/support.htm>
          o Microfinance
                + ~ Microcredit Summit Campaign
                  <http://www.microcreditsummit.org/>
                + ~ Grameen Foundation USA
                  <http://www.gfusa.org/microcredit.html>
          o Your Rights Online
                + ~ Creative Commons <http://creativecommons.org/support/>
                + ~ Electronic Frontier Foundation <http://www.eff.org>
    * Space Migration
          o Advocacy
                + ~ National Space Society <http://www.nss.org>
                + Planetary Society
                + Mars Society
          o History
                + ~ Saturn V Restoration
                  <http://www.saturnrestoration.org/donate/index.html>
          o Prizes
                + ~ Elevator 2010
                  <http://www.elevator2010.org/site/donate.html>
                + ~ X-Prize Foundation <http://www.xprize.org>
    * REJECTED
          o Overly Political
                + IEET
                + American Libertarian Party
                + Free State Project
                + Cato Institute
          o Business-related or sponsored
                + Linden Lab
                + Sourceforge
          o Technophobic
                + Greenpeace
                + Most Environmental Groups
                 (Any suggestions for an environmental group that's
not technophobic?)
          o Local
                 + America's Prize
                    (Saturn V Restoration exempted for its role in
humanity's first lunar landing)
          o No >H Character
                 + International Red Cross
-- 
Jay Dugger
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