I run SETI@home because I think that it is important to answer The Question.
I hope the project is barking up the right tree, from a technical standpoint. I hope we're fishing where the fish are, if indeed there are any fish.
My only suggestions are that we find something soon, in the perhaps naive hope that it will turn our collective intelligence away from the task of trying to blow each other up.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.