Ady, I hope to be able to scrape together some funds to donate soon. But as I now work as a VFX compositor in Nuke, I can also offer my help with the compositing side of things, should you want it - if you’re planning to recreate the edit pretty much as it was but in HD, there’s sure to be a lot of 2D compo work to be done on ANH:R HD.
Also, as you said you started working on grading ANH, have you seen this: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Neverars-A-New-Hope-Technicolor-Recreation-V1-Released/id/16256 ?
Neverar really managed to do something special there and I will definitely be using his grade as a basis for my next Despecialized version - even if you aren’t necessarily going for the Technicolor look, Neverar’s work would be a much better starting point than the raw BD and I’m sure he’d be happy to share the lossless files with you 😃