Inspired by Lesswrong's Bragging Thread, this is a place to show off, to display with pride all the great things you've done for the world and for others. Here is a modified version of the bragging thread:
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome altruistic thing you've done this year - (we can start bimonthly threads in the future) - You may be as blatantly proud of yourself as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that. Here you can talk about small acts of love and kindness too. You can even talk about something inspiring your friend did.
Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread.This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesome things they have done. Not "will do". Not "are working on". Have already done for others.
So, what's the coolest thing you've done for others this year??
Turns out tax deductibility is much more complicated in Australia than elsewhere, and is made even worse by the fact that a couple of legal challenges are currently underway, so the case law is in flux.
There are a couple of people in Melbourne (not me!) who know their way around the tax system very well and are planning to write up the parts that would be relevant to setting up a re-routing fund. I think they're not prioritising it because setting up such a fund looks like it would be at least 1 full time job, plus a decent amount of accounting/legal/senior-community-figure support.