This is my list for now:
EFF
ACLU
Privacy International
Signal
Simpletools/fossifyX
Wikipedia
Aurora store
Fdroid and other fdroid apps
SuperProductivity
Arch Linux? GNU
Aegis
Bitwarden
Fennec
Mozilla firefox
Librewolf
Openstreetmaps
Youtube Piped
Newpipe
GrapheneOS
Calyx
Element, matrix, fluffychat
Lemmy, lemm.ee, infosec.pub, eternity
Xmanager, torrenting people, spotdl, youtubedl
I’ve always wanted to donate to the Women’s Shelter that helped my mom and I way back in the day.
Now that I’m finally in a position to do so, I’m gonna go with that.
Local food bank
LPT: Food banks usually have deals with local food suppliers and wholesalers. They can do way more with a donation of money than they can with donations of actual food. Because they are able to cut out the middlemen.
Food bank worker here: though we have no such deal, money with no restrictions on use is just about the best thing to donate. It lets us buy fresh staples that otherwise are hard to come by, like eggs, butter and milk, or seasonally appropriate things like turkeys or hams (we had a total of 3 turkeys donated before Thanksgiving so we purchased around 50).
Next best thing to donate is whole cases of shelf stable foods. Individual cans and boxes must be inspected for best by date, damage to the packaging and complete labels, which becomes time intensive when you have 15 55 gallon barrels full of cans from food drives. Whole cases give you 12 packages of the same thing, all good to go from the factory.
Time is also great, but usually more needed the rest of the year. We don’t let people volunteer at our outreach center during the holidays if they don’t volunteer year round, simply because the people who only show up on the holidays tend to be doing a sort of poverty tourism that we find a little distasteful. Also, fresh volunteers need training and things are simply too crazy around the holidays to deal with it. If anyone is interested in food bank work, please find somewhere to volunteer the rest of the year. Feeding people is extremely satisfying work and we do need help the other 11 months of the year.
Already did. There is a project called TransFARMation who help farmers transition to 100% plant-based agriculture. The German org just started this August.
https://transfarmation-deutschland.de/
US based: https://thetransfarmationproject.org/
I’ve got some overlap with OP’s list through: Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Signal Technology Foundation, EFF, and ACLU (and I’m subscribed to a Bitwarden Family plan)
Some other places I’ll be donating:
Doctors Without Borders
Human Rights Watch
World Central Kitchen
Asante Africa Foundation (supporting education & scholarships for people, especially girls, in Eastern Africa - great place to donate if you want a small $ to go a long way)
Save the Manatee Foundation (get them back on the endangered species list!)
Trees for the Future (restoring ecosystems AND providing food/income/educational resources to impoverished communities)
A local charity that supports emergency preparedness and community activities in my community
