Francis Fukuyama, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, called transhumanism the "World's Most Dangerous Idea." He is not alone in his deliberate misuse of transhumanist ideas. There are dozens of organizations that use their multi-million dollar coffers to spread anti-transhumanist memes and lobby politicians.

Announcing the World Transhumanist Association's first major fundraising campaign.

The WTA has done a lot with a little. We have grown to 4,700 members worldwide, and transhumanist topics are increasingly part of mainstream debate, yet last year our budget was only $8,000. Now we want to see how much more we can do with more.

The immediate objective is to upgrade our communications to give transhumanist opinions a stronger voice. The generous matching grant by the Life Extension Foundation and Cartmell Holdings means that if we raise $25,000 independently we will secure a total of $50,000 in funding for the WTA, enabling the organization to shift into a higher gear. Please help us take advantage of this opportunity.

Any gift you make to the WTA will be matched dollar-for-dollar until January 31, 2008.

What Your Gift Will Support

Stanford Transhumanist Association's Yonah Berwaldt & Michael Jin
(Yonah Berwaldt & Michael Jin at the Singularity Summit at Stanford)

Student Outreach

Grass-roots, future-oriented student groups at universities can influence critical-thinking young people at an important stage in their intellectual and career development.

We want to do a one-day event at a top university to trial-run an idea: What if there were a group of young, bright, energetic transhumanists traveling from university to university, holding one-day events on issues relating to science, technology, and society?

A traveling band of young transhumanists to inspire students.

Identity & Website Update

Proceeds from this fund drive will underwrite our desperately needed website redesign and brand identity overhaul.

Transvision 2008

TransVision conferences bring extraordinary people together from across the globe to discuss the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. The discussions range from artificial general intelligence, to genetics, prosthetics, nanotechnology, life extension, cryonics, the singularity, global security, the environment, arts and entertainment. The venue for the 2008 TransVision is currently under consideration. Following this fund drive, we will be announcing some exciting plans.

H+ Digital Magazine

The H+ Magazine will be a fresh, fun, powerful way to present our ideas to members and the public. Edited by visionary journalist R.U. Sirius, creator of Mondo (precursor to WIRED), it will feature stories, interviews, news and events, covering life sciences, nanotechnology, AI, law, entertainment, arts, and more. Digital format will let us share the magazine with tens of thousands through mailing lists, social sites (e.g. Facebook), and online advertising.

Donate to the WTA $25,000 Matching Grant

Donate by PayPal

Other Ways to Donate

  • Donate by Check - Please make checks payable to World Transhumanist Association and mail to:
    WTA | P.O. Box 128 | Willington, CT 06279
  • Gift of Stock - Donate appreciated stock, bonds, or mutual funds. Avoid a capital gains tax on appreciation, and get a tax deduction for the full market value, up to 30% of your adjusted gross income. If interested, please email us.

Matching Fund Donors

The Life Extension Foundation (www.lef.org) is a nonprofit organization that has demonstrated its support for transhumanist organizations over the years. In 2005, they provided research grants of approximately $11 million to various longevity and cryonics related companies.

Life Extension

Brian Cartmell (www.cartmell.com): I'm happy to lend my support to the World Transhumanist Association as they explore new scientific and technological avenues that might enable our species to supersede the physical suffering and death that needlessly curbs a fuller, richer flowering of individual achievement and human joy.

Cartmell Holdings

Donor List ($25+)

Sean Henderson $125 One-Time December 11

for the hedonic calculus
Bruce Klein $100 One-Time December 11

Transhumanism is a rationally conceived cultural movement... very much worth our support.
Tyler Emerson $100 One-Time December 11
James Hughes $25 One-Time December 11

I want safe human enhancement technologies to be available to everyone.
Nick Bostrom $150 One-Time December 11
Kevin Perrott $100 One-Time December 11

The "human condition" is changing as it must, and the WTA is at the forefront of this change. We need organizations of vision to help bring about the best-case scenarios. The WTA is one. Support it.
James Hughes $250 One-Time December 11

Unite to promote universal access to safe human enhancement technologies! We can all be better than well!
Toni Malin $100 One-Time December 11
Joseph Morgan $100 One-Time December 11

WTA is a glimpse into the future!
Rene Finkler $100 One-Time December 11

Because we need to change minds
Jef Allbright $100 One-Time December 11

I support WTA's role in increasing awareness of ourselves and our technologies, in the context of the possible futures we may create.
Justin Morgenthau $100 One-Time December 12
The Fitness Physician $50 One-Time December 12
Mikko Rauhala $100 One-Time December 12
Jim Ledford $100 One-Time December 12

The WTA has the highest concentration of Cutting Edge Human Spirit.
Aleksey Potapov $100 One-Time December 12

I would like to see WTA support all of growing regional H+ community like Russian Transhumanist Movement =) http://transhumanism-russia.ru
Anonymous Donor $250 One-Time December 12
Martine Rothblatt $250 One-Time December 12
Anonymous Donor $10 One-Time December 12
Patricia Manney $250 One-Time December 12

The future is here -- time to pay up!
Anonymous Donor $250 One-Time December 12
Markus Clodius $150 One-Time December 13

We have so much potential, as a species, and transhumanism is the best path I'm aware of for us to explore what we're capable of being. Besides, the alternative to change is extinction.
Lincoln Cannon $250 One-Time December 13

I consider the pursuit of better minds and bodies to be a moral obligation, and believe we can better avoid risks and seize opportunities by working together.
Miron Cuperman $500 One-Time December 14

Version 0.1 is just the beginning.
Terry Grossman $100 One-Time December 14
Anonymous Donor $120 One-Time December 14

To my knowledge it is the largest transhumanist organization, and I support transhumanism because the possibilities and dangers of future technology are more important than any other cause.
Charlie Rous $100 One-Time December 14

Only a unified voice that there is beauty and necessity in these technologies will be heard.
Michael LaTorra $100 One-Time December 14

I want a better future for all.
Matthew Poprocki $100 One-Time December 14

Even Einstein had an impairment; physical, sensory, cognitive, and yes, intellectual - it's time to transcend.
Michael Silverton $250 One-Time December 14

Liberte, egalite, augmente, fraternite.
Moon Costumes $100 One-Time December 14

Curiosity
Myles Sifflet - Barry $250 One-Time December 15
Acceleration Studies Foundation $100 One-Time December 15

Necessary dialog for extraordinary times.
Benjamin Hyink $700 One-Time December 15

The h+ movement needs a growing, stable infrastructure to connect and empower its specialized institutions.
Erin Martijn $250 One-Time December 15

I am interested in the use of technology for the reduction of human suffering in the world, to increase our ability & choice, and because technology will hasten our next evolutionary step(s).
Anonymous Donor $100 One-Time December 15

Transhumanism celebrates life, religions hope for death.
Anonymous Donor $50 One-Time December 15
Billy H. Seidel $100 One-Time December 15
Roko Mijic $100 One-Time December 15

I don't have much money as I'm a student, but I donated because the transhumanist message really needs to be spread. If Iâm still around in 50 years, Iâm sure Iâll feel it was a worthwhile inves
Anonymous Donor $250 One-Time December 16
Robin Brandt $35 One-Time December 16

Because it is obvious that humanity need to expand and become better in every way! I love it all so much!
Piergraziano Usai $100 One-Time December 17
Johan Edström $100 One-Time December 18

For a better tomorrow
Anonymous Donor $100 Monthly December 19
Anonymous Donor $300 One-Time December 20
Marcel Lossi $100 One-Time December 20

Because transhumanism is the most important idea of the 21st century
Jeremy Shepard $100 One-Time December 21
David Tanton $250 One-Time December 21
Anonymous Donor $100 One-Time December 23

It embraces the necessity
Stanley Pecavar $100 One-Time December 26

Because public discourse about future technologies and their impact on society are important.
Alyosha Witness $50 One-Time December 27

Why You Support the WTA: The WTA has been a good salon; but it needs funds and other support to promote H+ more publically.
Charles Anderson $100 One-Time December 28

I want the foot print of the best of humanity stamped into every part of the Universe for eternity.
Harvey Newstrom $500 One-Time December 30
Jesse Liptrap $100 One-Time December 31

Wake up and smell the exponential advancement!
Darren Reynolds $500 One-Time December 31
Stanley Knutson $50 One-Time December 31
Ronald Eisler $50 One-Time December 31
ERGON, Estudos de Investimentos e Participaçs, SA $250 One-Time December 31
Stephen Clark $50 One-Time January 1
Peter Breyer $750 One-Time January 1

For human rights and aspirations unfettered by human biology, for a more custom-made human condition.
Brent Allsop $50 One-Time January 1
Christopher Bradford $50 One-Time January 1
Dorothee Cannon $50 One-Time January 1
Lincoln Cannon $50 One-Time January 1
Leonard Reil $50 One-Time January 1
Bryant Smith $50 One-Time January 1
Jessica West $50 One-Time January 1
Carl Youngblood $50 One-Time January 1
Eugen Leitl $50 One-Time January 1
Erik Bergström $25 One-Time January 2
Marlin May $100 One-Time January 3

Because life's too short.
Otto Valtakoski $50 One-Time January 4

Hopefully WTA's ideas spread more and are more accepted already in the near-term future.
Ilia Stambler $50 One-Time January 4
Karl Hale $50 One-Time January 4
Chris Haley $500 One-Time January 5

Because I want the quickest route possible to the Singularity.
Robert Lecnik $50 One-Time January 5
Yechi Zhang $100 One-Time January 5
Andrew Reynolds $100 One-Time January 5
Richard Leis $100 One-Time January 5
Jesse Merriman $50 One-Time January 5
Regina Pancake $50 One-Time January 5
Richard Mead $50 One-Time January 5
Michael Roy Ames $50 One-Time January 5
Parker Media Inc. $50 One-Time January 5
Freejade llc. $250 One-Time January 5
David Orban $50 One-Time January 5
Lucille Emerson $50 One-Time January 5
Amara Graps $50 One-Time January 5
Justin Loew $50 One-Time January 5
Pejman Makhfi $50 One-Time January 5
Darin Douma $50 One-Time January 5
Richard Lepre $50 One-Time January 5
Michael Kim $50 One-Time January 5
Philip Bowermaster $50 One-Time January 5
Cameron Thomson $50 One-Time January 5
William Wiser $40 One-Time January 5
David Fisher $50 One-Time January 5
Carl Shulman $50 One-Time January 5
Barney Pell $50 One-Time January 5
Gerald Covington $50 One-Time January 5
E.W. Scott $50 One-Time January 5
Christopher Healey $50 One-Time January 5
Anonymous Donor $50 One-Time January 5
Stéphane Gounari $100 One-Time January 5
Ted Radamaker $100 One-Time January 6
Dan Stoicescu $1,000 One-Time January 7
Anonymous Donor $50 One-Time January 7
Matthew Eggert $100 One-Time January 7

Far too many groups adopt myopic worldviews and agendas that seek to limit human potential unduly. With its openness and breadth of vision, the WTA offers a clear alternative for a brighter tomorrow.
Pete Hitesman $500 One-Time January 7

Further the visibility, discussion and research of transhumanist issues.
John Burgess $100 One-Time January 10

To build a better humanity for a brighter future
Adam Davis $50 One-Time January 16

Because transhumanism is my primary passion, and I wish for every responsible person to have an opportunity to live longer and experience the riches of this Universe together.
Fredrik Adâs $30 One-Time January 18
Anonymous Donor $50 One-Time January 20
Toni Pustovrh $100 One-Time January 21

The WTA needs to play a critical role in educating the broader public of the potential risks and benefits of emerging technologies, as well as of the merit of transhumanist ideas.
Ravi (ZEN) Durvasula $500 One-Time January 21
Alan Ziegler $100 One-Time January 23

The human condition has within it the seeds of its own destruction. Enhancing rational control over both our bodies and minds is a good first step towards ensuring enlightened survival.
Tim Kelly $50 One-Time January 23
Russell Rukin $50 One-Time January 23

More people need a say in how we will mould the future. The WTA need to work harder to get the message out to this end. my web site
David W. Buikema $75 One-Time January 24
Christopher Petersen $50 One-Time January 24
Mark Grover $50 One-Time January 25
Anonymous Donor $50 One-Time January 25
Otto Valtakoski $25 One-Time January 25
Anonymous Donor $50 One-Time January 25

It expresses what I believe
Anonymous Donor $100 One-Time January 26

My hopes for a better future.
Douglas Deveau $50 One-Time January 26

Prepare humanity for the next evolutionary step.
Tofinn Nome $100 One-Time January 27
Rudy Hoffman $100 One-Time January 27
Frank Forman $100 One-Time January 27
Noel Ahedo $100 One-Time January 27
Thi Quang Lam $100 One-Time January 27
Anonymous Donor $30 One-Time January 29
Shannon Vyff $100 One-Time January 30

It is time humans take control of their evolution. I give to my church and many social action projects to help out the 'now'. I support WTA and many futurist organizations to help create the future.
Anonymous Donor $150 One-Time January 30

Because I agree with its approach.
Allen Watkins Smith $100 One-Time January 30

I've been a transhumanist since before the word existed.
Joseph Jackson $100 One-Time January 30

Transhumanism articulates a philosophy of life rather than an apology for death; I am proud to support a movement that gives hope for the future.
Michael Anissimov $100 One-Time January 30
Giovanni Stile $50 One-Time January 31
Erik Gerwell $250 One-Time January 31

For the hope of a better future for mankind
Calvin Mercer $50 One-Time January 31
Max Tegmark $666 One-Time January 31
Larry Kaplan $100 One-Time January 31

Why not?
Sam Taylor $100 One-Time January 31

Humanity will soon surpass the boundaries of eons. We must embrace imagination and compassion, must bring to fruition the promises of emerging technologies, and we must do this for the benefit of all.
Stefano Vaj $500 One-Time January 31
Murray King $25 One-Time January 31

I like feeling positive about the future and WTA are my icons for this.
Jeremiah Wood $100 One-Time January 31

I love life!
David Glumac $30 One-Time January 31
Randy Wicker $50 One-Time January 31
Anonymous Donor $100 One-Time January 31

I want the general pro-technology attitude of Transhumanists to become more widely accepted and fight against the backwardness and the superstitious nonsense that dominates our world
Lilia Morales y Mori $25 One-Time January 31

Por el futuro cibernetico de la humanidad
Xavier Schneider $100 One-Time January 31

Pour un Monde meilleur avec de meilleurs Ht
Tim Hughes $100 One-Time January 31

I support the WTA because I believe in a better future for humanity, and in securing that, a better future for the entire planet and all it's inhabitants.
Michael Arth $50 One-Time January 31

It's an investment in our probable future.
James Armbrust $50 One-Time January 31
Philip Douglas $50 One-Time January 31
Matthew Duing $50 One-Time January 31

This organization is committed to realizing the benefits and avoiding the risks of our future.
Graham Hearn $50 One-Time January 31

enjoy life, want more
Dan Stoicescu $11,000 Pledge January 31