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I think some people are sort of missing the point about me suggesting that someone should reach out to the Gates Foundation. "Foundation Trust Endowment: $46.8 billion" https://www.gatesfoundation.org/who-we- ... -factsheet That is besides the fact that Bill Gates is passionate about fight...

I'm not an accountant, and I don't specialize in U.S. tax. That said, I highly doubt donations result in a 100% tax deduction for the party donating, probably more like 20%-50%. So definitely not free. It depends upon the person or couple (if filling jointly) and the person/couple's income level. Y...

Actually, I wouldn't rush things. This "hype" may die out in a few weeks just like hypes tend to do. By that time, if you took big money from a big sponsor, this sponsor would probably like to know what is going on and where it's money is at. If you took some cloud infrastructure, the spo...

If you don’t have computers to contribute or are feeling particularly generous, you can also make donations through Washington University in St. Louis. These funds are used for a number of purposes, including: 1) supporting our software engineering and server-side hardware (particularly important r...

Gates could be donating to fight pandemic diseases, which is something that he is passionate about, meanwhile Microsoft could get free press for being the organization that helped folding@home to scale at a crucial time, to fight covid-19.

On the surface, it appears to be a win-win to me.

If the donation page is accurate, folding@home is a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity, meaning all donations are tax deductible. If folding@home is need of donations, the main issue appears to be marketing the tax deductible aspects of donating to folding@home, with all of the current publicity around the...

Hello, I'm a long time fan, and recently became a donor to the folding@home project. I'm currently donating CPU cycles from a kimsufi (low cost OVH subsidiary) dedicated server that I'm renting, when the server is idle. I want to do more to donate to the covid-19 work but my wife will kill me if I s...