I am working on making that happen right now. I am pretty sure we can arrange something, but it depends a bit on getting a large enough volume to make it worth it for one of our UK friend-orgs to put in the work to do an equivalence determination.
Can you let me know how much you are thinking of giving (either here or in a DM)?
If you can get it set up before March, I’ll donate at least £2000.
(Though, um. I should say that at least one time I’ve been told “the way to donate with gift said is to set up an account with X, tell them to send the money to Y, and Y will pass it on to us”, and the first step in the chain there had very high transaction fees and I think might have involved sending an email… historical precedent suggests that if that’s the process for me to donate to lightcone, it might not happen.)
Do you know what rough volume you’d need to make it worthwhile?
Their inclusion criteria suggests that they want to see at least $50k of expected donations in the next year. My guess is if we have $10k-$20k expected this month, then that is probably enough, but I am not sure (and it might also not work out for other reasons).
Is there a way for UK taxpayers to tax-efficiently donate (e.g. via Gift Aid)?
I am working on making that happen right now. I am pretty sure we can arrange something, but it depends a bit on getting a large enough volume to make it worth it for one of our UK friend-orgs to put in the work to do an equivalence determination.
Can you let me know how much you are thinking of giving (either here or in a DM)?
If you can get it set up before March, I’ll donate at least £2000.
(Though, um. I should say that at least one time I’ve been told “the way to donate with gift said is to set up an account with X, tell them to send the money to Y, and Y will pass it on to us”, and the first step in the chain there had very high transaction fees and I think might have involved sending an email… historical precedent suggests that if that’s the process for me to donate to lightcone, it might not happen.)
Do you know what rough volume you’d need to make it worthwhile?
My favorite fiscal sponsorship would be through GWWC: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/inclusion-criteria
Their inclusion criteria suggests that they want to see at least $50k of expected donations in the next year. My guess is if we have $10k-$20k expected this month, then that is probably enough, but I am not sure (and it might also not work out for other reasons).
Okay. Make it £5k from me (currently ~$6350), that seems like it’ll make it more likely to happen.
I also commit to donating £5k to lightcone if and only you can get UK gift-aid donation set up by the end of March.