I'm 51, hold a doctorate degree and don't believe that the Seti project will ever find life but I am open minded enough to realize that I could be wrong, and it is this that has me helping in this wat.
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.