No amount is too small! The number of individual donors is just as
important as the size of the donation, in terms of showing public
support for this effort.
You can also make an anonymous donation by simply shopping at
Amazon.
By donating to Lifeboat Foundation, you'll be supporting the most
comprehensive effort being taken to ensure that humanity adopts the
powerful technologies of
genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI safely as we move towards the
Singularity. You'll share in our accomplishments as we
educate the public to coming dangers while we help accelerate the
development of defensive technologies including technologies to combat
biological viruses such as RNA interference and new vaccine methods,
effective nanotechnological defensive strategies, and self-sustaining
space colonies in case the other defensive strategies fail.
Learn more about
making donations! Get your donation
matched by your employer!
NEWS FLASH! —
Robert A. Freitas Jr. has found preliminary evidence that diamond
mechanosynthesis
may not be reliable enough at ambient temperatures to sustain an
existential
risk from microscopic ecophagic replicators.
Learn more details including how you can help
fund
his important research on this subject.
Sergio M.L. Tarrero will match all donations for this research up to
$2,000.
Help us fund the
Lifeboat Foundation Brochure grant. We are looking for a matching
donor to help with this!
Michael Anissimov, our new Fundraising Director, North America, is
ready to work at his position
full-time.
Learn how you can help him!
Help us fund the
CRN Study on Organizational Responses to Molecular Manufacturing
grant. We are looking for a matching donor to help with
this!
Philippe Van Nedervelde, our new International Spokesperson,
is
ready to work at his position up to
full-time.
Learn how you can help him!
Jerry Searcy has pledged a $2,500 matching donation for our
University
Outreach Program! He will match all donations up to $2,500.
Jerry Searcy has pledged a $2,500 matching donation for our
Lifeboat
Podcast
for iTunes
grant! He will match all donations up to $2,500.
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$454,601.62
Lifeboat Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization, federal EIN #80-0034805.
All membership fees and other gifts are tax deductible to the fullest
extent of the law.
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 "Professor Hollywood believes in the critical importance of this cause." (Click on his image to see the full picture of him on the Great Wall of China!)
Tom Castelloe - $25 joined 01/04/07.
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Stephen Fountain - $10 joined 06/21/02.
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 "Donate or I'll be very, very, very sad."
C.J. Lanhan - $1 joined 10/09/09.
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 "I'm about 80% thru Ray Kurweil's new book, and while reading the catalogue of N, G, and R risks this morning I sat up and thought: 's---, we really better hurry up and get life off of this planet, because it's hard to imagine we don't stumble into at least one of the planet-wide species level existential risks.'"
Jim Rutt - $5,500 joined 02/24/06.
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 "I am proud to support the Lifeboat Foundation in its efforts to help avoid or mitigate the most serious global dangers which are inherent to our era, still a rather primitive and uncertain period characterized by much human suffering, geopolitical struggles, medievally clueless societies and governments, rogue WMDs, and a state of "general lawlessness" — without proper if any surveillance of very bad apples, weak or no police force, or other forms of "adult supervision", in most quarters — coupled with the potentially highly destructive outcomes (via direct confrontation or escalation) of our typically reckless and shortsighted war games using advanced technologies. Certain uses of our advanced techs as weapons are premature and suicidal, and however we must learn to defend ourselves against both attacks and accidents surrounding ultrapowerful new technologies. For this reason, it pays to be first in getting the necessary knowhow and prepping our safeguards before we "hurt ourselves".
Despite our limitations and the worst aspects of our human nature, I am proud of all the good things that we have achieved as a species and, desperately wanting to see positive outcomes to our struggles, I think it is crucially important for as many of us as possible to focus on strategies and programs that aim to promote global balance and well-being for all sentient life, as well as programs which help us design safeguards in order to avoid the potentially globally-catastrophic scenarios that we are undoubtedly facing as our technological might skyrockets.
Only a handful of organizations are working on these types of major problems (please visit www.singinst.org, www.foresight.org, and www.crnano.org as well), and Lifeboat Foundation is the most comprehensive effort that I know of. Please consider joining our cause."
Sergio M.L. Tarrero - $22,695 + $3,400 to A-PRIZE + $2,000 to NanoShield Fund for $28,095 total ($20,790 pledged - Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 10/10/06.
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