# Giving Back, 2024 edition


- Date: 05-Apr-2024
- Author: Prateek Rungta
- Tags: Miranj, Social Impact
- URL: https://miranj.in/blog/2024/giving-back-2024


As another financial year comes to a close[^1], 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][1]. 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](https://photoswipe.com/), for enabling buttery smooth click-to-zoom “lightbox” experiences on photos and images.
- [The Internet Archive](https://archive.org/), for continuing to preserve this invaluable community resource that is the world wide web.
- [Tarun Bharat Sangh](https://tarunbharatsangh.in/), for conserving water — that precious life-enabling resource which [we often take for granted][3].

This is our fifth year[^2] of giving back, and [we continue talking about this publicly][2] in the hope that it encourages others to do the same, like it once encouraged us.

[^1]:
    The Indian financial year ends on 31st March. [Because, imperialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year#India).

[^2]:
    Past recipients include:
    
    - _Our work_ - [Prettier](https://prettier.io/), [Gulp](https://gulpjs.com/), [Mercurial](https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/), and [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/)
    - _Our industry_ - [Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/), [The Internet Archive](https://archive.org/), [Mozilla](https://donate.mozilla.org/en-IN/), [SFLC](https://sflc.in/), and [Internet Freedom Foundation](https://internetfreedom.in/)
    - _Our society_ - [Wikipedia](https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/), [Goonj](https://goonj.org/), [AltNews](https://www.altnews.in/donate/), [Magic Bus](https://www.magicbus.org/), and [Médecins Sans Frontières](https://www.msf.org/india).

[1]:https://miranj.in/blog/2022/2020-21-in-review#giving-back
[2]:https://miranj.in/blog/2023/giving-back-2023 "2023 Edition"
[3]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C65iqOSCZOY "World’s Water Crisis - Vox Explained"