Giving Back, 2024 edition

As another financial year comes to a close¹, the accountants draw out a projection of our profits and a corpus is carved out to give back some of our earnings to the community. Each member of the team has a chance to suggest and campaign for organisations working on:

1. Issues that impact our work.
2. Issues that impact our industry.
3. Issues that impact our society.

The corpus is then split equally between one organisation each from the above three groups. We prefer finding new recipients each year and try to have a gap of at least three years before donating to a previous recipient.

This year we ended up donating to:

• PhotoSwipe, for enabling buttery smooth click-to-zoom ​“lightbox” experiences on photos and images.
• The Internet Archive, for continuing to preserve this invaluable community resource that is the world wide web.
• Tarun Bharat Sangh, for conserving water — that precious life-enabling resource which we often take for granted.

This is our fifth year² of giving back, and we continue talking about this publicly in the hope that it encourages others to do the same, like it once encouraged us.