The “Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy”:http://plato.stanford.edu/ is having a “fundraising drive”:http://plato.stanford.edu/fundraising/. If you want to chip in a little, follow that link and send the $$$.

I never sent this to the people who actually do the work on the Encyclopaedia, but as I said before I think there’s a _relatively_ simple way to make money. Both “Barnes and Noble”:http://www.barnesandnoble.com/affiliate/intro.asp and “Amazon”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=gw1_mm_2/104-2335491-3139139/?node=3435371 run fairly generous affiliate programs that reward websites for sending customers there. If every book title in the Encyclopaedia was a live link to one of those stores, and they kept 8 to 9% of the sale proceeds generated, I suspect they could make a lot of money. Maybe not enough to run on their own, but a lot. And they’d be helping sell philosophy books, which is a good thing in its own right.

Anyway, this isn’t going to solve all their fundraising problems, so if you like the Encyclopaedia, perhaps chip in a few dollars yourself.