Some good info for people who donate...

To see exactly how much the Seti program actually gets, take 2.5% off of your donation. These are the fees and overhead UCB charges.

FYI for credit sake, this came from the Gift Administration Help Desk at UCB.

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2.5% off is fine I think, thought it would have been more.

2.5% off is fine I think, thought it would have been more.

Absolutely...it's a smaller margin then I expected

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Some good info for people who donate...

To see exactly how much the Seti program actually gets, take 2.5% off of your donation. These are the fees and overhead UCB charges.

FYI for credit sake, this came from the Gift Administration Help Desk at UCB.

That sounds like the credit card merchant fee!

Are you sure the person you talked to actually understood your question?

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I had heard UCB takes 11% of donations... where did 2.5% come from?

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Hi, Yes UBC takes 11% off the top.

Uhm...i'm a little confused now.

11%..2.5%...Yes...No...

How many from our Donations gets SETI@home? 89% or 97.5%

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

Uhm...i'm a little confused now.

11%..2.5%...Yes...No...

How many from our Donations gets SETI@home? 89% or 97.5%

Helli

I believe the 11% that the campus takes from the donations is correct.

And quite a bargain at that......
It would cost significantly more if the project had to front all of the costs they incur up front. Much more.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Make sure to direct your Gift to go to SETI or it goes into the general college fund to be divided equally between Departments if I remember correctly.

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

Hi, Yes it is 11% and please check to be sure it go to the SETI fund.

on the bright side, that is the default if you go to the donations page via the green star.

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Janice

Contribooting

Dear Francis Noel,

Thank you for your gift of $10.00 via Mastercard on 10/15/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $10.00

Your confirmation number is:
63661

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mambo

Thank you Francis.

Has anyone got a total lately? We've got to be way up there! Great job everybody.

Ok, according to my very weak math skills I figured $11,820.00. That's fantastic!

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

I had to give again, worked over 70 hours last week so the overtime looked real good.

Thank you for your gift of $100.00 via Visa on 10/15/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $100.00

Your confirmation number is:
63664

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That sounds like the credit card merchant fee!

Are you sure the person you talked to actually understood your question?

Here is exactly what I was told by someone at the Gifts Administration Help Desk:

2.5% of any gift given to the SETI program is taken out as a gift fee. Those fees do go back to SETI, however, to help administer and run their program. So, on a $20 gift, there would be a 50 cent gift fee.

Seems pretty forthright to me...I'll callback next week and confirm

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Thank you for your gift of $100.00 via Mastercard on 10/15/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $100.00

Your confirmation number is:
63665

Hope it helps,
Fred

At the risk of hi-jacking Mark's thread, every penny helps... even $5 helps the bottom line.

Thank you very much for your donation.

This will mean that they can hopefully get 2 decently specced servers to replace the less reliable ones.

There are ongoing discussions with server manufacturers about this.

It may even mean that they won't have to have the three day-shutdown to process the database results, but that will have to be a wait-and-see at the moment.

Giz.

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A proud GPU User Server Donor!

uhm my donation went to my old seti account ;o

ooh wel now i got 2 accounts with both green stars ;o

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Joined Seti@home on 20 June 1999 (id:797875)
Made This1 to Join the Eve Team

http://www.eveonline.com/seti/

For starters, my monthly donation for October.

Thank you for your gift of $50.00 via Visa on 10/16/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $50.00

Your confirmation number is:
63667

Has anyone got a total lately? We've got to be way up there! Great job everybody.

Been busy the last couple days with work and some things after work. Behold:

$55 msattler
$500 Helli
$100 ryeomans
$50 Dorphas
$100 MJS
$10 SciManStev
$200 JohnDK
$20 jason_gee
$100 Geek@Play
$20 Niteryder
$100 Fourmyle of Ceres
$100 bill
$50 RoosStar
$20 perryjay
$175 Clifton L. Harding Jr.
$50 Albireo380
$75 dnolan
$2,175 MarkJ
$50 Bernie Vine
$100 rebest
$100 S@NL - Fred - www.efmer.eu/boinc
$50 Big Don
$625 Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan
$300 samuel7
$30 Silje
$100 Klurt
$150 Magnet
$25 Robert Ribbeck
$124.75 Zebra3
$150 soft^spirit
$100 Rabbit&Carrot
$25 gomeyer
$25 Tony DeBari
$50 Eve - Pyro nl
$20 Anthony Coleman
$250 Roman Wagner
$35 Chris S
$50.25 razamatraz
$25 Frizz
$25 dan
$25 tnmjr99a
$25 arkayn
$20 _heinz
$50 Eewec
$25 Philhnnss
$100 Anthony G. Todd
$108 Justin M. Morford
$250 RWZeitgeist
$15 SockGap
$50 Bearcat
$50 Donald L. Johnson
$20 Arjant2
$400 Orioneti
$50 Ingrid Brouwer
$50 The_bestest
$100 Thomas Arnold
$10 John
$200 David Anderson
$200 J. Mileski
$100 James Sotherden
$100 Egad Ivegoninsane
$50 yank
$12 VM Bobier
$50 Blake Bonkofsky
$50 Ocna
$15 CLYDE
$40 Area 51
$50 Terry & Laura
$20 Dean Sheaffer
$200 Claggy
$100 WendyR
$100 dcappello
$25 119FWMXS
$10 MJKelleher
$2,175 -ShEm-
$50 CHARLES JACKSON
$50 Spectrum
$25 Fuzzy53
$25 JimHilty2
$100 Tom Mehrens
$15 APCyberax
$25 [DPC] hansR
$10 Zeus Fab3r
$100 Doug vE
$25 KWSN - Xfer.cns
$10 Mike Bader
$300 Tony Baczynski
$50 Xeltrix
$10 Francis Noel
$100 Frederic Salve

Total comes to $12,050. Total from the donation history page (dating to Oct. 6th) is $14,257.55, for a difference of $2,207.55. Looks like there was another donation made for $25.55 that wasn't mentioned here (which is perfectly fine). Thank you everyone for your generosity. It looks like Oscar will be getting a sibling for the holidays (I hope that's all he ever wanted). :-)

Justin
Go Huskers!

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Thank you for your gift of $50.00 via Mastercard on 10/16/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $50.00

Your confirmation number is:
63668

Thanks Mark for the very inspiring thread.