Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive?

helios17 writes "Non-Profits like this have traditionally gotten started from the money grants provide. Most grants award vehicles, computers, and even pay for organization rental and utility costs. The problem fledgling and even established non-profits are encountering is the dwindling number of grants allowing for Operating or General Support costs. What good is a vehicle received via grant if you can't afford to put fuel in it? With the number of Operating or General Support grants shrinking and those available funds competed for heavily, should we be looking on line for help? Can efforts like this be a better way to approach it?"

Re:More important: Why are they drying up?

[BenJCarter]

We aren't at war anymore. You must have missed the president guy's mouth noises on the subject.

Re:Kickstarter.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, the lobbiests, the lobbiest of them all.

so just claim your org is pro-war

[decora]

example:

old slogan: we give used computers to poor people

new slogan: by recruiting young people into the Infosec milieu, we help america defend against the goddam commie chinese hackers and the motherfucking russians who are trying to make our power system go offline so they can invade our country, kill our leaders, and convert us to non-americanism.