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The Internet Archive has a new fundraising system. It sounds like quite a good idea for people who are using the IA as the digitisation store for archives hosted elsewhere. For most small archives, hosting the text portion of a catalogue should these days be almost free or at least very cheap. But hosting the images (and video and audio especially) is not, and the IA (and Wikimedia Commons, for PD material) is a pretty great place to put that. So this means you can use it in this way but also not feel like a total freeloader!
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising at the Internet Archive by Jenica Jessen 2 October 2025:
Peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising allows donors to create their own page and garner donations in support of the Internet Archive. Every donation is tax-deductible, and 100% of all gifts raised directly support ongoing Internet Archive initiatives.
The donation page also says:
You have until December 31, 2025 to raise donations to help us reach a generous $1 million match—tripling all donations raised.
The P2P fundraising system is run by GoFundMe, but you end up on a page on donate.archive.org that asks you to sign up but doesn't say that it's actually signing up to GoFundMe — on the face of it, you'd think that clicking 'sign in' here would involve signing in to the IA.
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