We need your help
The eHammurabi.org website is provided free of charge. All contents are prepared and organized by experts in cuneiform studies and the Akkadian language. We don’t run advertisements, show pop-ups, or disrupt your use of the service. We need your help to keep it that way.
We are asking for your help in meeting our 2025 budget goal of $10,452. It is a modest total amount, but absolutely essential for continuing our high operational standards. Please consider donating anything you can in order to support our digitization efforts. All our expenses are transparent, and 100% of every dollar donated goes towards keeping the services fast, useful, and free.
How we use donated funds
All donated monies are used towards tangible expenses that make the service possible: engineering, data entry, website hosting, etc. As Table 1 shows, below, we make the most of every dollar and keep our costs as low as possible. When you make a tax-deductible donation to eHammurabi, all your dollars go to that. (Unlike many other non-profit organizations, we do not use your contributions for travel, leisure, or 'management fees'.).
| Table: eHammurabi 2025 Projected Expenses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Expense | Purpose | Cost ($) |
| Web hosting | Renting a cloud server | $4,019 |
| Engineering | New features, bug fixes, etc. | $3,156 |
| Data entry | Input of content | $2,376 |
| Other | Miscellaneous costs | $901 |
| TOTAL | $10,452 | |
Without funding for these necessary costs, we cannot keep the eHammurabi website experience fast, useful, and free.
Modernizing ancient studies
Your donation not only helps this website, but all other others associated with the OMNIKA Foundation:
- OMNIKA: Mythology Index & Search Engine
- Allo: Modern Dictionary Platform for Dead Ancient Languages
- PsychLing: Psycholinguistics Portal & Knowledge Base
- MindSpace Studio: Psycholinguistics Podcast About Mental Language
We are one of the only technology organizations that take mythology and ancient studies very seriously.
Letter from the Executive Director
OMNIKA Foundation
501(c)(3) non-profit · omnika.org
December 9, 2024
Dear future contributor;
Firstly, Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and thank you for considering a donation to the eHammurabi project by OMNIKA. The purpose of this brief communication is to urge you to make a contribution to the parent organization of eHammurabi.
As a non-profit organization, we do not make money here. As the Executive Director, I do not fly in a private jet, nor do I indulge in taking a salary. The reason for this conduct is simple—the Foundation’s mission and values.
Our goal is to digitize, organize, and make freely available all the world‘s mythological contents. To this end, my job is simple: recruit expert people in related fields of study, collaborate with our board of excellent advisors, and make sure we always have enough cash in the bank to keep our web properties and mobile applications running fast and smooth.
We need your help to make that happen. All of your contributed monies—not just a percentage of it—goes towards helping us execute our mission. My own personal background in software engineering has helped reduce these operational costs tremendously, but it is not enough. The truth is that we need help from donors like you in order to continue our work.
Please consider making a donation if you can. If you do, you can be sure that your funds will be used in a responsible and transparent fashion, as published on our website every year.
If you feel that we are not doing enough or are misusing our resources, please feel free to reach out to me directly with any comments, concerns, thoughts, or reactions. I promise to provide a personal reply, as well as an action plan in order to address your concerns following my team’s review.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
______________________
Boban Dedović
Executive Director
OMNIKA Foundation
304 S. Jones Blvd STE 1869
Las Vegas, NV 89107
United States of America
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
How does eHammurabi make money and afford to keep the service operational and free? We rely on contributions from donors like you in order to run the service and avoid charging user fees. The eHammurabi project is managed by a registered non-profit organization. Our budget and expenses are transparent, and therefore show that we do not make any money from running the service.
Is my donation secure? Yes. Your donation to eHammurabi complies with modern internet security standards like SSL encryption, PCI Compliance, and security auditing. That is why we partner with payment processors like PayPal in order to handle payment processing, payment security, and other finance-related technical infrastructure. You can be sure that your donation and payment details are secure.
Is my donation tax deductible? Contributions made to eHammurabi via the OMNIKA Foundation are tax-deductible as permitted by law in your local region. After donating, you will receive a receipt for your contribution. This will serve as an official record of your donation. Please save or print the emailed receipt for your records. The OMNIKA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the United States of America; our Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 84-1927147.
