For a fourth year in a row, DuckDuckGo has generously donated to the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) as part of its annual charitable donations program.
Funding administrative overhead as a small nonprofit is incredibly tricky. The feast-or-famine nature of nonprofit work makes it complicated to budget, as well as adds stress professionally and personally to our team. Carte blanche donations make it possible for OSTIF to budget for year over year instead of by quarters, to make concrete commitments to projects, security firms, and funders earlier, and to afford budget lines like marketing and public relations, travel per diems, and cost-of-living raises. With the generous support of DuckDuckGo, we will fund healthcare for all our employees in 2025.
Since 2011, DuckDuckGo has donated almost $6 million to organizations that raise the standard of trust online. DuckDuckGo provides private search and tools to help people protect their privacy and avoid being tracked online; they also support organizations that work to promote privacy, as well as protect and secure software. OSTIF is honored to again receive not only a donation but recognition of our work in security and privacy. We are so grateful and fortunate to be working a full decade to help secure the digital landscape with support from organizations like DuckDuckGo who appreciate and validate efforts to protect user privacy and data.
If you or your enterprise are interested in supporting open source security work at such a pivotal time in our industry, but do not currently have the financial resources to support funding a security audit, consider instead supporting OSTIF’s work directly with a donation. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or to follow up on our call to action.