| From the Processing Foundation website: https://processingfoundation.org/ Every year, we support and sponsor programs that nurture diverse communities and their projects. Our programs include: A Fellowship and Teaching Fellowship Program that funds exploratory, creative, and technical research An Advocacy Program that partners with organizations for projects Public events that provide platforms for collaboration between our contributors, such as panels and talks that spread the word about the need for equity in these fields Summer programs to support emerging coders throughout the world Other bits: We invite you to meditate on digital fragmentation and infrastructure that lays its foundation through the global white capitalist, colonialist, and imperialist framework we live in today through our Land and Digital Acknowledgements. Please consider donating to the Processing Foundation to help us advance the role of programming within the visual arts. I guess the foundation money is mostly being spent on things unrelated to Processing itself. But, if this is what the people donating the money wanted to happen, who's to say that it's wrong? Or maybe nobody really knows what they wanted. It's a tough issue with nonprofit organizations because they can often just spend the money on whatever the management wants, which may not be what the donors or former management wants. |
Meh. It depends.
Sometimes, like in the case of Mozilla, people are mislead about what their donations are used for. "Donate to firefox" money goes to the Mozilla CEOs favourite political causes.
I'm assuming that in this case, due to the snipped you posted, donators are made aware that they are not donating to Processing development, but to the leaders' political causes.