I'm a 29 year old pastor in the North Eastern United States and I'm helping the SETI@home project to help prove the nonexistance of ETI as much as help search. I figured there are enough people claiming the ETI doesn't exist and not doing anything to help prove it one way or the other. Either way, I enjoy being a part of something like this.
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.