Stack Exchange Gives Back 2013

12-23-13 by Robert Cartaino. 42 comments

This is a time of year of traditions and celebrations — and we have a tradition at Stack Exchange where we set this time aside each year to give back to the groups and organizations that need our help. Each year, we reach out to our moderators and offer to make a $100 donation to charity on behalf of each moderator for their Stack Exchange community. It’s just a small gesture of thanks for the tremendous amount of work every community has contributed to make this entire thing possible.

This “giving back” program actually goes waaay back to the beginning when we started with only 18 moderators and three sites. As our ranks grew, so did the donations. So on behalf of the 375 moderators this year, we have made the following donations to charity:

SE Gives Back 2013 Blog

It is also important to remember and support the tools and organizations that make what we do possible, so we also made the following donations:

HAProxy — $1,000.00
jQuery Foundation — $1,000.00
Linux Foundation — $1,000.00
OpenSTV, the voting engine that drives our elections — $1,000.00

In addition, we continue to be a MathJax Partner with a donation of $20,000 in our commitment to helping math and science communities on the web.

As we approach 2014, I think a lot about what we have built here together. I think about the fact that this is all made possible by people who DONATE their time and GIVE freely their knowledge to benefit future readers who come here seeking help. It’s your contributions here that make all this possible. It’s what keeps the lights on and the wheels turning… and what makes this small gesture of giving back possible.

I take a lot of pride in what we do — and you should, too. This giving back program is just one of the many things we as a community do that is easy to feel pretty good about. It makes me delighted to be a part of this organization and part of a community that works so hard to help people they will probably never meet.

Take care, and see you in 2014!

SE Gives Back 2013 Blog Pic

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42 Comments

World_Engineer Dec 23 2013

Nicely Done, all the way around.

Sammie S. Taunton Dec 23 2013

Thank You!

H2CO3 Dec 23 2013

Awesome. That’s very kind of you. Except the donation to jQuery because it’s horrible. (JK, keep up the good work!)

wayne Dec 23 2013

I looked for the upvote.

zt Dec 23 2013

Support GreenSock!

who Dec 23 2013

Nice to know the effort.

Sathiya Kumar Dec 23 2013

Hats off to this nice effort..

Biju Dec 23 2013

Great Work indeed!

Somnath Dec 23 2013

Claps for all of you

Abhinay Kumar Dec 23 2013

Great work for Humanity..Exceptional effort.

Lets Cheers V for Stack Exchange world

Abdullah Dec 23 2013

Great work …..

Tafhim Ul Islam Dec 23 2013

Feels great to be a part of such noble place. :)

biogirl Dec 23 2013

upvote upvote….upvote :)
Excellent work guys !

Shadow Wizard Dec 24 2013

Very nice, big kudos! Worth also to mention you’re going to donate $1 for each person who take the survey. :)

lorenzo Dec 24 2013

Wow! Well done! Thank you :)

Prabhaker Dec 24 2013

Upvote…Stack Exchange redefined as “Exchange of greatness stock”…!!! Great work..Keep Going….

Luke Stanley Dec 24 2013

If you really want to help people in the Philippines in the most effective way, you should know bandwidth can really suck here.
Do a more recent database dump for offline use!
–From Luke in Rizal, Philippines.