Summary: On February 26, 2015, the community news website reddit awarded $82,765.95 to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and nine other non-profit organizations chosen by the reddit community. We express our profound appreciation to reddit and the reddit community for supporting psychedelic and medical marijuana research and education.
Originally appearing here.
Last week we announced that we would be giving 10% of our 2014 gross ad revenue to support the goals and causes of the entire reddit community. We did this by hosting a vote and allowing our users to vote for any US based charity registered with the IRS.
Every winning charity will receive a donation in the amount of $82,765.95 from reddit.
After +250,000 votes cast on +8,000 charities by 80,000+ voters, we have our top 10 list of charities:
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Doctors Without Borders, USA
- Erowid Center
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
- NPR
- Free Software Foundation
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- Tor Project Inc.
Congratulations to all the winners, and big thanks to all the reddit users who voted, and to Charity Navigator! All winners are asked to email redditdonate@reddit.com so we can work out the details on the best way to get the donation to you.
