Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
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For the price of a cup of coffee a day you can join the Lifeboat 500!

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.

Total Donors: 6,071

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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Amount
Date
Membership Type
Name
$100,000 – $1,000,000
  • Brian Cartmell
    $15,675 including 10,000 American Express membership reward + $118,763.35 including 236.31612399 bitcoins for $134,438.35 total joined 06/05/08.
$10,000 – $100,000
  • Donald Maclean
    $45,455 ($10,745 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) + $3,000 ($22,000 pledged – Active A-500 membership) + $2,000 to AIShield Fund + $1,500 to NanoShield Fund + $500 for $50,955 total joined 04/16/08.

    “What do I want passionately from the bottom of my heart? Is my personal vision clear? How do I go about fulfilling my vision? In this rapidly unfolding life drama I value clarity. This century offers us opportunities for profound insights into life, for transcending maladaptive ways and for adopting mature ways, but there are also dangers and we confront major dilemmas. I am aware of my own customary way of identifying and confronting dilemmas in life.

    I support the Lifeboat Foundation because I love the vision and I want to help bring about a secure future in which people from all walks of life around the world have opportunities for fulfilling productive lives.”

  • Jeff Bone/Topsight Fund
    $28,945.59 (Active Patron membership) + $48.20 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund + $100 to X-Risks Network Fund for $28,843.79 total joined 07/02/10.
  • Peg Kay
    $24,000 + $3,000 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $27,000 total joined 12/08/12.
  • Josh Zerlan
    $20,000 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 12/31/13.

    “If you have the means, it is your responsibility to act in the best interests of humanity. The Lifeboat Foundation is part of humanity’s future and it is the responsibility of every person to support that future.”

  • Sergio M.L. Tarrero
    $13,255 + $3,400 to A-PRIZE + $2,000 to NanoShield Fund for $18,655 total ($17,730 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 10/10/06.

    “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.intelligence.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.”

  • Kenneth P. Weiss
    $18,615 joined 04/30/07.
  • Dave Davies
    $15,460 (Active Patron membership) joined 01/26/18.
  • Michael Dickey
    $14,965 ($10,035 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 06/03/06.

    “I am an adamant supporter of the Lifeboat Foundations goals for three major reasons, The Drake Equation, the Fermi Paradox, and The Law of Accelerating Returns. The combination of these three principles illustrates something terribly jarring; that life throughout the universe almost always destroys itself through technology.”

  • Anonymous Donors
    $12,966.87 + $1,217.55 [Bitcoin CryptogenicBullion, Etherium, Litecoin, Monero, Nobelcoin, Peercoin, and Solarcoin) to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $14,247.77 total (Includes one Active Economy membership).
  • Chris K. Haley
    $10,055 + $250 to A-PRIZE + $1,000 to AIShield Fund + $1,075.44 (composed of 85 bitcoins, 1.144172 CryptoGenicBullion, and 3.14159265 litecoins) for $12,380.44 total ($20,945 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 01/05/08.

    “I’m proud to support the Lifeboat Foundation as a Lifeboat 500 member. The work that is being done by this organization is extremely important, and only by taking an active part in it will we be able to manage the journey successfully.”

  • Jack Halpern
    $12,000 joined 06/26/07.
  • Dan Stoicescu
    $11,500 joined 10/31/08.
  • Jaan Tallinn
    $10,600 joined 06/06/07.
  • Ray Kurzweil
    $10,381.60 joined 03/07/06.

    “A self-replicating pathogen, whether biological or nanotechnology based, could destroy our civilization in a matter of days or weeks. We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks and that is why I support the Lifeboat Foundation.”

$1,000 – $10,000
  • Benjamin R. Hoffman
    $9,040 joined 01/07/10.

    “Getting humanity safely through this dangerous period in our history is the most important thing we can be doing right now.”

  • Philippe Van Nedervelde
    $6,630 ($18,285 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 06/19/06.

    “Building arks costs money. 500 people pitching in is a great, exemplary start, and I look forward to numerous LF evangelizing opportunities to swiftly inflate the ranks of, first, the 500 and soon thereafter, the 5000, the 50.000, the 500.000 and the 5 million. The more arks the better!”

  • Nick Pavlica
    $6,000 joined 01/19/03.

    “I realize my contribution is not as much as you really need or would like to have, but at least I am demonstrating my vote of confidence in Lifeboat Foundation for this endeavor. I am glad you are planning our rescue. We have nothing to lose and the pessimists might be wrong about an inevitable extinction.”

  • Jim Rutt
    $5,500 joined 02/24/06.

    “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.’”

  • Matthew L. McGuirl
    $4,125 + 0.3 bitcoins worth $41.94 + $50 to NanoShield Fund for $5,066.94 total (Active Executive membership) joined 08/21/07.
  • Jerry Searcy
    $5,040 (Including $5,000 for matching funds for our Lifeboat Podcast for iTunes grant and our University Outreach Program) joined 04/06/06.

    “Long-term I want to travel throughout the universe and so I want to make sure our planet is not destroyed by the powerful technologies that are coming before I have a chance to leave Earth. (After I leave Earth, then it is your problem!!!)”

  • Jason G. Matheny
    $5,005 joined 08/22/06.
  • Kenneth A. Cowin
    $5,000 joined 08/16/10.
  • Life Extension Foundation
    $5,000 joined 08/27/09.
  • McKesson
    $4,900 joined 10/06/18.
  • Michael Anissimov
    $4,675 + $100 to A-PRIZE for $4,775 total joined 11/01/06.

    “If humanity goes extinct, not only will the possibilities of extreme life extension, sophisticated nanotechnology, intelligence enhancement, and space expansion never bear fruit, but everyone we know will be dead, never to come back. Because we have so much to lose, mitigative strategies are worth investing in even if our estimated probability of disaster is extremely low. The Lifeboat Foundation is leading the pack in this area.”

  • Humberto Castaneda
    $4,600 joined 01/14/08.

    “Human survival has always been in mortal danger. It is only our slow perception of time that has given us the illusion of stability. Whether we call it luck, or by design, we have gotten to a point where through technology we may escape the risk horizon on Earth. Now we have to believe this is possible, and that we will do it, because whatever stance we take collectively will be self-fulfilling.”

  • Terasem Movement
    $4,000 joined 06/05/08.

    “We believe Lifeboat’s work directly relates to Terasem’s mission to establish diversity, unity, and joyful immortality via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness.”

  • Mike Ritter
    $3,995 ($21,005 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 02/12/21.

    “Lifeboat is a species changing organization I am proud to be a member of.”

  • Stanley Pecavar
    $3,400 joined 09/06/07.
  • John Wsol
    $3,364.04 joined 02/18/24.
  • Robominister Online
    $3,140 joined 01/08/23.
  • Fannie Mae
    $3,020 joined 01/30/10.
  • Robert Lecnik
    $3,000 for X-Risks Network Fund joined 06/27/10.
  • Drew Reynolds
    $3,000 joined 09/21/06.
  • Eric Bauswell
    $2,845 ($22,155 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 10/18/07.
  • Michael Fleischmann
    $2,600 joined 07/05/07.

    “Unfortunately, I find myself pairing finite resources with unlimited advocacy. Wishing us much success…”

  • James R Blodgett
    $2,246.67 + $250 + $40 to A-PRIZE for $2,536.67 total joined 12/26/11.

    “Testimonial: Bostrom says the reachable universe could support 10^58 human equivalent lives. Enabling this has humongous expected value (probability x value) even if probability is tiny. So send Lifeboat $. Also help me polish this so it sells to the average Joe.”

  • Gerald Rutherford
    $2,473 joined 05/27/23.
  • David W. Wall
    $2,400 joined 11/08/07.
  • Willard H. Wells
    $2,333 joined 05/04/10.

    “Consider participating in a survival colony. Learn more!”

  • Jacqueline Karma Bennett
    $2,252 joined 05/22/12.
  • Brenda Cooper
    $2,235 (Active Economy membership) joined 02/12/07.

    “I am very interested in the kind of conversations — conversations about our future — that happen in this forum.”

  • Tyrone Steels II
    $2,162 joined 01/21/08.

    “All of humanity is in the same boat: Earth. And if that boat is threatened or starts to sink, we need to have a lifeboat. Plain and simple. To not plan is not a plan; it is a recipe for disaster. I’m proud to be a Lifeboat 500 member since it provides a priceless service to all of humanity.”

  • Alan R. Light
    $1,750 (Active Executive membership) + $250 for $2,050 total joined 12/26/08.

    “We will want to go beyond the bounds of earth anyway, we might as well start getting ready now. The preparations may prove useful in themselves long before we get off the ground.”

  • Matt Bamberger
    $2,000 joined 01/19/08.
  • Edwin B. Cooper Jr.
    $1,970 joined 01/17/07.

    “Lifeboat membership helps us learn about increasing productivity & longevity.”

  • Urhobo Progress Union America
    $1795 joined 12/17/23.
  • Rebecca R. Cooper
    $1,760 (Active Economy membership) joined 05/12/10.
  • Rick Hubbard
    $1,750 (Active Executive membership) joined 06/26/07.

    “To survive, we understand the opposing forces that vie at the intersection of means and will. To advance, we pursue quests for truth. To progress, we choose in the equilibrium of this difficult and delicate calculus. Future reality can be shaped both by pursuit and prudence.”

  • Aaron Mayzes
    $1,720 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/24/09.
  • Carl Martinez
    $1,550 joined 06/22/06.

    “I have little faith that the government will properly plan for the dangers of advanced technology. So I have decided to put my faith in Lifeboat Foundation instead.”

  • Roland Schiefer
    $1,540 (Active Economy membership) joined 03/08/12.
  • Robert Citron
    $1,500 joined 02/18/07.

    “The Lifeboat Foundation concept is wonderful. Getting the best minds on the planet mobilized for a common purpose — ’to prepare for the Singularity’ — may make the difference between humanity’s long-term success or failure. Best wishes for success.”

  • Alexia Idoura
    $1,450 (Active Executive membership) joined 10/13/18.
  • Jim Mellon
    $1,380 joined 01/15/18.
  • Alexander Macrae
    $1,370 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/20/11.
  • Amy L. Stoehr
    $1,335 joined 06/09/22.

    “May there be a groundswell of support to re-establish your power source!”

  • Venita Davis
    $1,325 (Active Executive membership) joined 11/09/15.

    “Excited about contributing to something bigger than myself, so that the future of humanity can continue to evolve into something great.”

  • Charlie Shrem
    $1,300 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 04/07/13.
  • HP (Hewlett Packard)
    $1,081 joined 05/19/08.
  • Lois Huneycutt
    $1020 joined 06/28/23.
  • Charles Churchill
    $1,000 joined 12/22/12.

    “To help the defense against technology becoming a Frankenstein monster — the potential/reality which has been with us since 1914 and which may indeed increase geometrically.”

  • “Drop in the Ocean”
    $1,000 joined 08/20/12.

    “My donation is a drop in the ocean but it brings waves of good luck with it.”

  • Google
    $300 + $700 matching donation for $1,000 total joined 05/06/09.
  • John J. Peters
    $1,000 plus free room and board for 11 months for a volunteer. (Includes bedroom with two beds and a separate office with a fireplace and bathroom.) Joined 04/01/06.

    “Isn’t my grandson cute!”

  • Sun Microsystems
    $1,000 joined 03/31/09.
$100 – $1,000
  • Patrik Sandin
    $970 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/06/16.
  • Richard Hendrick
    $945 (Active Executive membership) joined 05/19/06.

    “So much agreement about the risks. For so many years. So little action (your considerable accomplishments excluded). Please continue promoting awareness.”

  • Loïc-Yann Bardon
    $840 (Active Economy membership) joined 05/21/18.
  • Adam Dobrin
    $825 joined 06/06/06.
  • Thoughtware.TV
    $805 joined 05/27/07.

    “Many walk the perilous path in which some claim that technology will solve our problems, and others say it will destroy us.

    We each have the responsibility of working hard towards a positive future. You can make a difference. Your potential is without limit.
     
    Thoughtware.TV is proud to sponsor the Lifeboat Foundation.”

  • C M Anderson
    $800 joined 10/29/07.
  • Santiago Bilinkis
    $800 joined 12/01/10.

    “Always a pleasure! Keep up the great work of keeping us all safe!”

  • Bill Barbour
    $725 (Active Executive membership) joined 12/06/19.
  • John Grencer
    $720 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/14/10.
  • Michael Haislip
    $680 ($24,320 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 06/16/08.
  • J. Broadbent
    $675 joined 07/20/12.

    “I’m a subscriber to the SMi2LE philosophy — and I am passionate about facing up the dilemmas of our spaceship Earth. I would like not just to keep things the way they are, but to find ways to make us thrive as a planetary ecosystem, and as a species, for us to explore and exploit the last frontier.”

  • Amy L. Fletcher
    $675 (Active Executive membership) joined 11/20/20.
  • Thomas Dolphin
    $670 joined 01/25/09.
  • Paula J. Wilson
    $660 (Active Economy membership) joined 05/18/08.
  • Brandon E. Larson
    $650 (Active First Class membership) joined 09/04/11.

    “I am concerned about not only the survival of the human race but also preventing its descent back to savagery. Our primary goal must be to make humanity a multi-planet species.”

  • Ralf J. Muller
    $650 joined 04/21/11.
  • James W. Taylor
    $650 joined 03/24/06.
  • David Shumaker
    $640 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/27/19.
  • Susan Cutforth
    $630 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/24/19.
  • Stephen Fleming
    $610 joined 04/27/06.
  • George Salazar
    $610 joined 12/13/22.
  • Maciamo Hay
    $600 (Active Economy membership) joined 04/12/14.
  • Oracle
    $600 joined 06/27/11.
  • Robert Pisani
    $600 (Active Executive membership) joined 05/19/17.
  • Petr Šrámek
    $600 (Active Executive membership) joined 02/19/17.

    “I am a lifelong entrepreneur with the belief that science and technology can bring humanity to a new better level.”

  • Andrew Webb
    $590 joined 10/15/23.
  • Miron Cuperman
    $585 joined 05/02/10.
  • John Ratnaswamy
    $500 + $85 for $585 total joined 07/21/10.
  • Dr. Tom Driscoll
    $570 joined 05/21/09.
  • Bob Joy
    $250 + $300 to NanoShield Fund for $550 total (Active Economy membership) joined 03/14/15.

    “Things are accelerating, time to pitch in.”

  • Roy Mitsuoka
    $550 joined 05/10/12.
  • George Garrett
    $540 joined 08/04/07.
  • Eric Klien
    $530 joined 11/04/08.
  • Timothy Wass
    $530 joined 11/03/23.
  • John N. Phillips (Jack)
    $520 joined 09/19/07.

    “Let’s hope we can achieve sufficient AW (artificial wisdom or enhanced wisdom) in time to ensure the Singularity will be benign.”

  • Richard Kane
    $510 joined 06/22/11.

    “Lifeboat preaches and practices tolerance, which is rather rare.”

  • Sonia Arrison
    $500 joined 02/19/09.
  • Sam Gutterman
    $500 joined 12/29/10.
  • Naveen Jain
    $500 joined 12/30/10.

    “I am honored to support the work you are doing.”

  • Chris Poulin
    $500 joined 01/14/09.
  • Michael Silverton
    $500 joined 10/13/07.

    “To help enable the Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group meeting. Dear friends and colleagues: if like me, you haven’t pitched in for awhile, this is an important project to support. Thank you for keeping Lifeboat Foundation afloat, so the hard working team at Lifeboat Foundation can continue to keep us ALL afloat!”

  • Vincent A. Cate
    $475 joined 06/16/07.

    “The human species is at risk until it has established self-sufficient colonies in space. Current technology is more powerful than ever before, so the period from now until we are established in space will be the most risky of all time. There is a good chance that humans are the only intelligent life in this galaxy and therefore amazingly precious. We need to work to prevent the extinction of the human species during this risky period and to help it get into space faster.”

  • Frank D. Smith
    $470 joined 12/05/10.

    “This is only a lifeboat if we let it continue in that direction. I am a SoCal Pacific Ocean lover, now landlocked in the city in Southern Illinois where Buckminster Fuller built and lived in the first dome home on Earth. Keep the spaceship alive with good lifeboat practices… be safe be happy.”

  • Johan Edström
    $462 joined 10/14/06.
  • Peter Murray
    $450 joined 12/15/07.

    “Don’t accept the limits others place upon you.”

  • Matt Browne
    $430 joined 09/30/07.

    “The volcanologist Bill McGuire once said: "As a race, we survive on planet Earth purely by geological consent."

    The physicist Stephen Hawking once said: "It’s space flight or extinction."

    I believe the Lifeboat Foundation can make a real difference securing humanity’s mid-term and long-term future.

    It feels good to be part of this dynamic organization.”

  • Joseph P. Jackson III
    $430 joined 09/18/07.

    “Today it is outrageous that the term existential risk is not even in the vocabulary of most policymakers, not to mention the public at large. The next decade is absolutely critical — either we get these issues recognized globally, from the highest levels of intergovernmental meetings, down to the lowest common denominator of popular culture — or — we abandon all hope of steering our future as it overcomes us.”

  • Real Estate Masters Guild
    $430 joined 02/22/23.
  • Frank C. Adamek
    $425 joined 07/04/09.

    “The generations of humanity do not get to choose the troubles and dangers that assail them; their only choice is whether and how to meet those dangers. Technological progress is reaching a critical point, smashing through the conventional boundaries between what humans were or were not capable of, thrusting into our trembling hands the radically enhanced power to both destroy ourselves and to remake our world and very beings.

    This situation cannot continue for any great length of time, and if we cannot seize hold of this power to create a safer and more positive world then we seemed destined to permanent disability or death. No generation before us has shouldered such responsibility, and if we act with wisdom and foresight it may be that no future generation will have to. If so we are the most critical generation that ever has been or will be, uniquely positioned to determine the fate of life in our corner of the universe for potentially millions of years, and we must act accordingly.”

  • G. Ali Mansoori
    $425 joined 06/29/08.
  • Glenn A. Miller
    $425 (Active Economy membership) joined 04/29/07.

    “The future is so damned interesting. Pity I’ll miss the majority of it.”

  • Dr. Diane M. Rousseau
    $400 joined 01/30/20.

    “Lifeboat Foundation provides an essential means in many areas of focus for expansion and combined research; bringing professionals together to make a difference now and for the future.”

  • William J. Cosgrove
    $385 joined 06/07/08.

    “Keep up the good work!”

  • Nicholas MacDonald
    $375 (Active Executive membership) joined 01/04/16.

    “The greatest threat to humanity today is a pre-occupation with short-term thinking; this is the root of all of our major problems. The Lifeboat Foundation is striking at that root, and, as a wealth manager focused on helping my private and institutional clients manage assets for the ultra-long-term, want to support that mission in any way that I can.”

  • Joel D. Ticknor
    $375 (Active Economy membership) joined 03/22/15.
  • Mark A. Walker
    $375 (Active Executive membership) joined 07/12/07.
  • Christopher Dilkus
    $370 joined 11/30/07.
  • Stormy L. Brinson
    $360 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/27/15.

    “Lot’s of great things happening. Keep up the good work!”

  • Sylvia Engdahl
    $360 joined 10/27/06.

    “All the worldwide problems we want to solve, and feel we should have solved, are related to the fact that we’ve outgrown the ecological niche we presently occupy. I view them not as pathologies, but as natural indicators of our evolutionary stage. I would like to believe that they’ll prove spurs to expansion. If they don’t, we’ll be one of evolution’s failures.”

  • John Claus
    $350 joined 03/24/06.
  • Rob Enderle
    $350 joined 10/16/07.
  • Tihamer “Tee” Toth-Fejel
    $300 + $50 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $350 total joined 12/29/11.

    “All the greatest minds, gathered in one place…”

  • Tommy Ledbetter
    $340 (Active Economy membership) joined 08/26/20.
  • Brent L. Reitze
    $325 (Active Executive membership) joined 06/05/15.

    “Inspired by the novel The Transhumanist Wager. A good sci-fi novel, but with a greater lesson. We must put our collective efforts towards human longevity.”

  • Adrian-Bogdan (Adi) Moruţ
    $320 joined 10/09/07.
  • Peter W. Smafield
    $320 (Active Economy membership) joined 04/12/15.

    “I believe we will all need a personal AI who has access to the whole world’s information. It is my supposition that without that information most people will live in poverty.”

  • Peter Drake
    $308.40 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 12/30/13.

    “Interested in the sustainability of cryptocurrencies, concerned about electricity consumption in mining bitcoin farms. Peercoin is the answer.”

  • Michael Breazeale
    $300 (Active Executive membership) joined 01/23/11.
  • George Gabrielle
    $300 joined 12/19/22.
  • Linda M. Glenn
    $300 joined 10/26/07.
  • Kamal Zaki Mahmoud Ali Shaeer
    $300 joined 09/17/12.
  • Rodney C. Hill
    $290 joined 07/24/09.

    “As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, I taught a future studies course for two quarters in 1968–69 and have been involved in future studies ever since. In a state of accelerating change, we must look to the future to navigate the present.”

  • Frank Sudia
    $270 + $20 for $290 total joined 11/19/07.

    “My favorite futures oriented organization, which gives everyone a good feeling of doing something together.”

  • Benjamin T. Solomon
    $280 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/24/11.

    “Author of the 12-year study titled ‘An Introduction to Gravity Modification’, and am reaching out to both the physics and the aerospace engineering communities to ensure that gravity modification will be a commercial technology in our lifetimes.”

  • Chuck Weir
    $275 joined 10/17/07.
  • James Bracken
    $270 joined 05/31/11.
  • Thomas Weiser
    $270 joined 1/17/21.

    “To support Kelvin Ogba Dafiaghor and his students! Greetings from Germany.”

  • Brenton Camac
    $261.30 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 04/27/13.
  • Linus Petersson
    $260 joined 05/14/09.

    “The best minds of the world should be focusing on making sure humanity survives. This should be our number 1 priority! I hope we will make it through this extremely trying century. Best of luck!”

  • Luis Carlos Reyes Hernandez
    $70 + $185 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $255 total joined 12/26/11.

    “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. Here’s my snowflake…”

  • Martin Hellman
    $250 joined 11/05/08.

    “By definition, existential threats deserve our careful attention. Sadly, they are largely ignored. The Lifeboat Foundation’s efforts to correct that imbalance are greatly appreciated.”

  • Barbara Marx Hubbard
    $250 joined 10/25/06.

    “If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species.”

  • Ramez Naam is donating all of his proceeds to the Lifeboat Foundation when you buy his book here (Kindle or paperback version) and then matching that donation by another 100%.
    $250 joined 06/15/13.

    “My book is about overcoming natural resource and environmental challenges that face us.”

  • Wilfrid Nixon
    $250 joined 12/15/12.
  • Ryan Witt
    $250 joined 02/08/12.

    “Let’s make a difference.”

  • Franco Cortese
    $240 joined 03/31/13.

    “Never before has X-Risk been more important — and the importance of ameliorating the dangers of such potential sources of humanity’s extinction will only increase as we move forward into our fluidic future.”

  • Kaj Sotala
    $235 joined 01/06/07.

    “The image is a little old.”

  • Rudi and Dawn Hoffman
    $225 joined 12/28/08.

    “I spend my days helping people make and fund their cryonics arrangements. But if an existential risk to humanity occurs, all bets including cryonics are moot.

    The Lifeboat Foundation helps me stay in touch with the bigger picture, and I am proud and pleased that many of my clients are board members and supporters. For long and joyous lives!

    Rudi and Dawn Hoffman
    Port Orange, FL”

  • Dai Alex Chuang
    $220.50 joined 07/17/14.

    “I set up my Amazon Smile account so Amazon will donate 0.5% of my eligible purchases to Lifeboat Foundation and I feel good about doing this and it is so simple to do!”

  • Joseph N. Pelton
    $215 joined 12/11/12.

    “I truly appreciate Lifeboat’s support of research on cosmic hazards and planetary defense and the Guardian Award for 2017. This aids ongoing research in this area.”

  • Charlie Lee
    $211.50 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 01/31/14.
  • Rhonda Stevenson
    $210 joined 10/18/09.
  • Chris K. Porter
    $205 joined 10/26/11.

    “Existential risk problems are so daunting, this might seem like pissing in the ocean. However, I feel compelled to do something to contribute. It makes me feel good.”

  • Canadian Casinos™
    $200 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 03/14/19.

    “We hope you make the donation total required!”

  • Alexandru Celac
    $200 joined 11/21/10.
  • Keith Curtis
    $200 joined 07/06/07.
  • Paul Epping
    $200 joined 11/06/15.

    “This foundation is very valuable for everybody who takes our future seriously. (Technical) developments are studied in an independent way. Initiatives, books, discussions, and articles will help you to understand what is going on in the world.”

  • Susan Fuhr
    $200 joined 09/27/05.
  • Andrew Hessel
    $200 joined 10/28/07.
  • John Lee
    $200 joined 08/28/12.

    “Leeward Space Foundation supporting Liftport Group’s Kickstarter fundraiser for the Lunar Space Elevator. Space = Key To Infinite Resources. Help Save The Earth — Move To Outer Space.”

  • Microsoft
    $200 joined 06/30/17.
  • Colleen Murphy
    $200 joined 12/22/12.

    “Your work is vital to our survival.”

  • Genevieve O’Hagan
    $200 joined 12/02/17.

    “Thank you for helping make a better world and helping humanity!”

  • Gennady Stolyarov
    $200 joined 05/22/23.
  • Ed Ziaebrahimi
    $200 joined 02/28/10.
  • Fredrick Park
    $25 + $167.70 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $192.70 total joined 12/24/13.
  • Charles Hawk
    $190 joined 05/01/10.
  • Matt Trask
    $188 joined 12/29/22.
  • Allen G. Taylor
    $184 joined 12/06/12.

    “Someone needs to be thinking about the things that could seriously harm humanity, and what can be done to mitigate those things. The Lifeboat Foundation is an organization dedicated to alerting humanity to the dangers and finding the remedies to them.”

  • Anthony L. Haynor
    $180 joined 08/19/17.
  • Danny Belkin
    $175 joined 05/03/08.
  • Matt Duing
    $175 joined 10/01/08.
  • Robert Hunt Robinson
    $175 joined 01/14/08.
  • Steve Coy
    $170 ($24,830 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 11/11/24.
  • ISG Manufacturing
    $170 joined 11/03/20.

    “Information Systems Group was proud to host a fundraiser for Ogba Educational Clinic to pay for the logistics costs of getting goods to Warri. I am very happy to see Ogba sponsored by an organization like Lifeboat, enabling me to support technology education in Nigeria. It is extremely difficult to send money to Nigeria, perhaps for good reason, but I firmly believe supporting Ogba is a great way to leverage the power of microfinance to help development.”

  • Sheridan Layman
    $170 joined 12/31/07.
  • Mike Hädrich
    $160 joined 08/08/16.
  • Dr. R. D. Wright
    $160 joined 07/01/11.

    “The Lifeboat Foundation is a beacon of hope for a better long-term future for us all. We need organizations like the Lifeboat Foundation to try to ensure that the human race does not run out of time to take the necessary steps to ensure its long-term continuation.”

  • Kattesh V. Katti
    $150 joined 12/28/08.

    “It is gratifying to be part of and donating to Lifeboat Foundation as the extraordinary group of members of this foundation operate in an ’out of the box’ approach in bringing an awareness of the implications of science and technology to our day-to-day lives. This collective effort will take all of us into the next domain of science in terms of realization of the power of nanotechnology in medicine, agriculture, and environment restoration.”

  • Bruce J. Klein
    $150 joined 12/08/07.

    “Lifeboat Foundation’s goal to safeguard humanity is extremely valuable and worth our support.”

  • Carl Leonard
    $150 joined 03/18/21.

    “I support the Ogba educational clinic.”

  • Philip Morehead
    $150 joined 03/08/11.
  • Onoerhime Okagbare
    $150 joined 09/04/24.
  • Muhammad Abed Peerally
    $150 joined 01/20/19.
  • Walt Putnam
    $150 joined 12/01/11.
  • Olaoluwalotobi Thomas
    $150 joined 08/23/24.
  • Michael Vassar
    $150 joined 01/13/07.
  • Catherine Asaro
    $145 joined 12/26/11.

    “Best wishes with all your good work.”

  • Aaron Lasher
    $142.36 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 09/13/13.
  • Adam Stradling
    $141.83 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 04/29/13.
  • David Orban
    $130 + $1 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $141 total joined 01/12/10.

    “I decided to celebrate my birthday by helping safeguard humanity.”

  • Alexander Braitberg
    $140 joined 03/25/08.
  • Taurus Londoño
    $140 (Active Economy membership) joined 02/20/16.
  • Eric B. Baum
    $135 joined 12/14/12.
  • Joshua Fox
    $130 joined 10/10/07.

    “I am impressed by the roster of people you have brought on board — a great start! These respected leaders in their fields will not only contribute directly, but will also serve to convince others of the importance of preventing the extinction of the human race. (Isn’t it strange that convincing is needed?)”

  • James Dunn
    $128 joined 12/22/16.

    “Lifeboat Foundation is the longest lasting organization that works to broaden social awareness of potential future extinction events. To work towards avoidance requires thinking ahead in some cases a few years, but often decades, centuries, and millennium.

    Awareness breeds related business opportunities that most often indirectly benefit the cause. Persistence is vital. Sustained support critical. Learn about my personal efforts!”

  • Landon Bennett
    $115 + $11.11 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $126.11 total joined 12/29/16.

    “The Lifeboat Foundation has made great progress financially in the past few years. Our future is bright! I also donate in remembrance of former Lifeboat Foundation Vice President Chris Haley.”

  • Alan DeRossett
    $125 joined 05/12/13.
  • Hubert C. Braendle
    $120 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/21/16.
  • Donald Byrne
    $120 joined 02/26/11.

    “Delighted to be part of this organization and its important work.”

  • Andrew K Fader
    $120 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/30/21.
  • Mark P. Fusco
    $120 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/12/12.
  • Peter Harrigan
    $120 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 04/09/14.
  • Colin Kline
    $120 joined 02/03/08.
  • Law Offices of Sris, P.C.
    $120 joined 08/22/24.
  • Rick Moss
    $120 joined 06/30/11.
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    $120 joined 01/15/22.
  • Richard Yonck
    $120 joined 10/20/10.

    “We stand at a crossroads, a point in this planet’s long history that is at once unique, terrifying, and beckoning with hope. We live in a time when we are creating new ways to destroy our world faster than we are building the safeguards to prevent that very destruction. Only through considered foresight and action will we overcome these threats and realize the full potential of our future civilization.”

  • Pamela "Atlas" Geller
    $118 joined 01/18/07.

    “So much evil, so little time.”

  • Jason Korman
    $118 joined 04/15/16.
  • Alan Ziegler
    $115 joined 12/29/14.
  • Abel Dafiaghor
    $110 joined 03/12/24.
  • Plus Voucher Code
    $110 joined 03/26/19.
  • Tom Kerwick
    $105 joined 01/03/12.

    “Thank you to the Lifeboat Foundation, for providing the necessary platform for our societal challenges with technology to be raised & discussed in sincerity and with earnest. May we always strive to protect.”

  • James Tankersley Jr
    $101.26 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund joined 09/27/14.
  • Facebook
    $101 joined 12/09/16.
  • Robert T. Liimatainen
    $101 joined 11/12/08.

    “Dedicated to Alexis Armstrong and her comment on 9/12/08. But for your comment, I would not have donated. Hope to have the pleasure of a daughter like you one day. Hope the donation helps out!”

  • Chris Abani
    $100 joined 12/28/08.
  • Michael Abramowicz
    $100 joined 10/31/11.
  • Michael L. Anderson
    $100 joined 12/28/08.
  • Bagen Law Accident Injury Lawyers
    $100 joined 07/29/22.

    “At Bagen Law, our expert accident injury lawyers have been fighting for Florida’s injured for 40 years! Specializing in car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, slip and falls, and wrongful death, serving all of Florida with offices in Gainesville and Ocala.”

  • Gregory Benford
    $100 joined 12/29/16.
  • Matthew P Bewley
    $100 joined 10/01/20.

    “Daniel was on Rebel Wisdom recently discussing some great media solutions (scientific method-oriented) for re-sculpting the information landscape for the better — figured it was a good time to contribute.”

  • Parsel Bilir
    $100 joined 12/25/10.
  • Mike Brogley
    $100 joined 06/01/08.
  • Citywide Law Group
    $100 joined 05/16/18.
  • David W. Corne
    $100 joined 04/25/13.

    “This organization is unique, creative, important, open, and inspiring. Everyone should have those qualities.”

  • Ed Daniels
    $100 joined 12/15/15.
  • Bill Dickens
    $100 joined 09/02/09.
  • James Doehring
    $100 joined 02/17/10.
  • Garth D. Ehrlich
    $100 joined 09/01/09.
  • Global STEM Initiative
    $100 joined 03/18/24.
  • J. Bradley Hall
    $100 joined 12/26/16.

    “The Lifeboat Foundation offers safe harbors where thought energy can convert into thoughtful discussion and actionable plans. It is my pleasure to accept your invitation to support the activity that is manifest here.”

  • Jeffrey Herrlich
    $100 joined 10/31/07.
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    $100 joined 08/19/12.
  • Injury Trial Lawyers
    $100 joined 05/17/18.
  • Kepler Space Institute
    $100 joined 05/30/16.

    “Kepler Space Institute will join this vision and project.”

  • Robert M. Krone
    $100 joined 10/09/18.
  • Lavent Law
    $100 joined 05/23/18.
  • Juan Llanos
    $100 joined 11/07/13.
  • George M. Martin
    $100 joined 06/29/13.
  • Paul Melnyk
    $100 to A-PRIZE joined 01/16/14.
  • Sarah Jane Pell
    $100 joined 11/13/07.
  • Lee Irwin Pringle
    $100 joined 06/16/10.

    “We have a duty to protect our species from extinction. We do it for our family, our friends, and for the whole of humankind.”

  • Glenn Reynolds is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, and is best known for his blog Instapundit, one of the most widely read American political blogs
    $100 joined 11/08/07.
  • Rise Marketing
    $100 joined 01/07/20.

    “Technology is a powerful tool for improving our lives, but must not be misused. I’m proud to support The Lifeboat Foundation as they help safeguard humanity in the modern age.”

  • Albert "Skip" Rizzo
    $100 joined 01/08/09.
  • Chad Sahlhoff
    $100 joined 01/28/18.

    “Eric Klien is the boss!”

  • Paul Sanberg
    $100 joined 12/29/10.
  • Bo Shaffer
    $100 joined 02/07/02.

    “Not much, but every little bit counts….”

  • Mark A. Smith
    $100 joined 12/28/08.
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    $100 joined 08/12/10.
  • Antoine van de Ven
    $100 joined 12/31/10.
  • Zubin Wadia
    $100 joined 12/08/11.

    “CiviGuard is proud to support the Lifeboat Foundation.”

  • Ken Wilssens
    $100 joined 12/21/02.
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