Response to criticism section Any kind of donation no matter the motivation e g showing off your ice bucket video is good Some of the critics say that people are just being narcissistic attention seekers and aren t putting enough attention on the charity Any kind of donation no matter the motivation e g showing off your ice bucket video is good Points for contributing to neuromuscular disease ALS muscular dystrophy Parkinson s disease cerebral palsy etc computing projects World Community Grid uses BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computing resources One of the World Community Grid projects that you can choose involves investigating protein protein interactions for 40 000 proteins whose structures are known with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases You could probably get more people to donate to nonprofits if more of them would be involved with things like the smart phone charity apps that are available such as the BOINC app and Google One Today for Android and iOS All points or contributions are recorded on an online profile and they should eventually connect to something like the leaderboard and achievements system of Xbox PS or Google Play Games People by nature can be mostly status conscious self interested and competitive Reputation and points systems can affect motivation and may be the only source of motivation for some people to do something charitable Reddit karma Stackoverflow points and blood donations Reddit karma is a factor as to why Reddit comments are not like YouTube comments Whether you think Reddit karma is ridiculous or not a lot of people value Internet points They allow people to show off When people answer my questions on Stackoverflow some of them might really want to help but some of them might just care about gaining more points To me it doesn t matter as long as I get my questions answered Some people donate blood for the money and some people donate blood because of a different cause If I need the blood I don t care what a donor s motivation was If it s not charity points people will continue to show off by spending on clothes cars jewelry wearable electronics wearable gadgets etc If you can shift it to a better cause why not Sometimes recognition a record and competition are necessary