I noticed that transfer companies usually charge fixed amount for each transaction, so donating $1 can easily incur 30%+ fee.
So I would like to find a rule of thumb to minimize the fees yet cover all projects I like
Any tips?
Wikipedia is a very profitable company. They don’t need as many donations as the make it seem.
Their higher-ups all earn exorbitant salaries
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries
Wow that’s obscene, especially the steep rise over the years. I’ll stop donating to them.
Do you have a source to back this? Not to say I don’t believe you but I am legitimately curious
That is a 8 year old article, plus they are a democratic organisation where the board of director is elected by the editors, If they think they need the money to be the best wikipedia they can be i will take their word instead of some website owned by Jeff Bezos (And if i am reading wikipedia articles and learning, I am not wasting money and resources on amazon).
Liberapay, 12$/year to any open source project I use. It isn’t much, but its what I can afford.
Pick 4 NGOs per year. Donate 10% of income at the end of the year to them evenly.
Next year pick another 4 NGOs that you think did great work that year.