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Giving

Giving is not emotion—it’s support for specific improvements. We encourage donors to focus on deliverables, milestones, and postmortems.

Funds
Learner equipment fund

Provide baseline equipment and connectivity support for learners under financial pressure.

Expected deliverables
  • · Equipment micro-grants (headsets/cameras)
  • · Course materials kits (where relevant)
  • · Captioning and transcripts for recorded sessions
Open archive & maintenance

Maintain corpora, annotation guidelines, and toolchains; publish reusable resources.

Expected deliverables
  • · Corpus maintenance and consistency reports
  • · Annotation guides and case libraries
  • · Toolchain maintenance and documentation
Public review & accessibility captions

Support public defense week, sample libraries, and accessibility improvements.

Expected deliverables
  • · Public defense week operational costs
  • · Captioning and alternative text
  • · Accessibility audits and fixes
Transparency
DimensionPracticeWhy
Budget ranges Published per fund Avoid misleading precision while remaining accountable
Execution summaries Published annually Include deliverables, milestones, and postmortems
Beneficiary data Anonymized aggregates Collected with minimization principles
Conflicts of interest Public statements Review and funding decisions are separated
For donations and receipts, contact the Giving Office. Annual public summaries describe deliverables, milestones, and audited totals per fund.