Partners
Breadpig Allies
Although Breadpig is a pretty magical superhero, he can’t fix the world alone. That’s why Breadpig teams up with these not-for-profit organizations doing great work. We choose our allies wisely, because being a Breadpig ally goes beyond just a check–we view it as a long-term partnership that can spawn projects, collaborations, and events.
Room to Read
Room to Read seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. To accomplish this, Room to Read builds schools, libraries, reading rooms, and local language publishing programs in nine countries in Asia and Africa to help develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children.
To date, Breadpig has worked with Room to Read to build a school in Laos; en route are a school building in Sri Lanka, a reading room in Nepal, and a local language publishing program in India. In October, team Breadpig will be traveling to several of these locations to document the work being done through photos, videos, and interviews.
The products that support Room to Read are the Books are my Aphrodisiac shirt and XKCD: Volume 0.
San Francisco SPCA
SF/SPCA is one of the oldest and most successful humane societies in the country. The organization originally behind the definition and philosophy of “no-kill,” the SF/SPCA find homes for thousands of dogs and cats and provides veterinary care to as many as 30,000 each year. In other words, it is because of SF/SPCA that many LOLcats and dogs can has loving homes, spaying/neutering treatments, veterinary care, and, of course, cheezburgers.
Breadpig has donated over $45,000 to SF/SPCA. And played with some puppiez. The product that supports SF/SPCA is LOLMagnetz.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense when our technological freedoms come under attack. Since its founding in 1990, the EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle for digital rights, including cases about free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights. Blending the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, EFF achieves significant victories on behalf of consumers and the general public. It brings and defends relevant lawsuits, often against the government or large corporations, mobilizes concerned citizens to beat back bad legislation, and educates policymakers, the press, and the public.
Breadpig has donated over $15,000 to the EFF, part of which came from a XKCD book event in San Francisco. Products that support the EFF are the Information Warfare poster and the Dreaming of Androids shirt.
Breadpig Comrades
Beyond long-lasting arrangements with organizations, Breadpig also occasionally swoops down and drops backup resources to friendly forces that need it. We salute these comrades for their work of spreading awesome in the world and look forward to working with them again in the future.
The Daily Bread Food Bank is the hub of the food bank community in Toronto, supporting over 170 member agencies in running different kinds of food relief programs. The largest provider of emergency food relief in the greater Toronto area, Daily Bread member agencies see a monthly average of 73,000 client visits.
Grayson County Humane Society and SPCA is an all-volunteer group that donates their time and resources to saving and hugging the animals of Leitchfield, KY.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to curing leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Mercy Corps helps people in the world’s toughest places turn the crises of natural disaster, poverty and conflict into opportunities for progress. Driven by local needs and market conditions, Mercy Corps’ programs provide communities with the tools and support they need to transform their own lives. 95 percent of Mercy Corps’ team members are nationals of the countries where they work, exemplifying their core belief in local solutions to local problems.
One Laptop per Child creates educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. To help out OLPC, the Breadpig auctioned off an XO signed by dozens of internet celebrities.
PyCon is a series of volunteer-run conferences about the Python programming language held all over the world. Breadpig <3s Python.
ROFLCon is a series of conference/conventions that celebrates and discusses the internet’s cultures and communities. Breadpig auctioned the ROFLaptop and debuted LOLMagnetz at the first ROFLCon in 2008, created an internet celebrity DNA sampler at ROFLThing NYC, and was a sponsor of ROFLCon II.
Science Commons identifies unnecessary barriers to research, crafts policy guidelines and legal agreements to lower those barriers, and develops technology to make research, data and materials easier to find and use by everyone. Breadpig supported Science Commons by auctioning off the DNA of internet celebrities. We’ll do anything for science!
