this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
54 points (100.0% liked)

Chat

7841 readers
42 users here now

Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
alyaza@beehaw.org
remington@beehaw.org
54
Beehaw has a huge surplus of money. Could we use it to fund another service? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 days ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Our current balance is around $6000 and the average monthly cost to keep us running is $250.

If you'd like to take a closer look at our finances, then you can do it here -> https://opencollective.com/beehaw-collective

All of that being said, is there another service that the Beehaw community could provide with the extra funds?

One example could be to establish a Nonprofit Corporation (501(c)(3)) to create a legally recognized nonprofit with a clear charitable mission: education, health services, housing, etc.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s interesting how Beehaw has an emergency fund as most instances are living pay cheque to pay cheque. Hopefully our software and practices can improve to further reduce costs.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the Beeple are very passionate about this particular server. I think other servers have a lot of folks that would be fine with jumping to a new server if they had to, but i cannot really speak to that.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

That makes sense as Beehaw is very friendly.