donation

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A donation is a brief post, often a note, indicating an act of giving items or money to another person, or organization; to donate or make a pledge to the IndieWeb community, see the IndieWeb Open Collective.

If you want to make a donation to the IndieWeb community, see:

donate

For recurring donations, see:

pledge

Why

Giving and philanthropy is good.
Announcing or sharing your support on the web can encourage others to act. This might be similar to the effect of announcing one's having registered to vote or announcing that they voted.
Repeat medical donors blood, marrow etc. might enjoy tracking milestones in the progress/total contribution over time, or comparing their donation history with others (e.g. this note about giving blood could perhaps have been a donation).

IndieWeb Examples

Tantek

Tantek Çelik has been posting donation posts as notes, without any explicit structure though, since at least 2015-09-13.

Donating stuff: http://tantek.com/2015/256/t1/purge-stuff-not-building-positive-future
Donating $: http://tantek.com/2016/366/t6/just-donated-still-time-for-2016
- focused on encouraging donations: http://tantek.com/2017/365/t1/today-donate-renew-arts-science

Chris Aldrich

Chris Aldrich has previously made a few checkin posts at donation shops like Goodwill or Salvation Army which include photos of some of my donations. Though those don't always have a complete list of things gotten rid of.

Separately he maintains a somewhat related "supporting" page of either pledges to organizations he makes donations to or supports.

Amy Guy

Amy Guy has a tag on her site for aggregating donations.

Jacky Alcine

Jacky Alciné manually lists his donations at https://jacky.wtf/patron as of 2022-07-03

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Silo Examples

Twitter

Circa 2011 (or perhaps even before) there was a Twitter movement by a number of non-profits to create a "Giving Tuesday" on the Tuesday following Black Friday and the subsequent Black Monday on the days following Thanksgiving in the United States. This resulted in people making status updates or note posts about donations they were making, typically with the hashtag #GivingTuesday.
Follow Giving Tuesday on The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The Freecycle Network

The Freecycle Network is a worldwide network of "gifting" groups enabling peer to peer donating of reusable goods.

Freegle

Freegle is a UK organisation enabling people to donate things, ask for free things.

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