#charitable donations

I've been fortunate to not need to ask for financial assistance in nearly seven weeks, and I hope to reach at least a temporary end to my homelessness by November 11-12. This is contingent upon me moving to my sister's condo to help her as she recovers from hip replacement surgery. And I'm praying that it will go well enough that she'll let me stay permanently (in which case I can transfer to a Walmart in her town).

In the meantime, I do need some help staying housed for the next two weeks. Temperatures at night are now in the low 30s - low 40s, and I'd really like to avoid having to sleep in my car. Understanding that most people are pretty tapped out, I'm still going to try to raise $300 ~ and truly, even just a few dollars could help me spend a single night out of the cold!

goal: $0/$300

As always, I'm deeply grateful for any financial aid I'd receive, as well as for reblogs of this post!!🫶🫶

Our Pride Bundle sale has concluded, and (enough of) the funds earned have cleared, and so today is donation day!

First, for accountability, here’s the sales data from our webpage:

We ended up selling the same number of each bundle – 23 General Imprint bundles, 23 Erotica Imprint Bundles.

The Press is donating the same percentage of our earnings across the board – about 40% of our “share”, which is itself about 25% of the net (post-processing fee) value of the sales. Several authors also opted to donate part or all of their shares to the charities. I’m not getting specific here because I don’t want our authors to feel pressured to donate more than they’re able to, so I apologize that this isn’t quite as explicit, but the way things worked out, after fees and everything, 35.71% of the GROSS proceeds from the General Imprint Bundle and 40.56% of the GROSS proceeds from the Erotica Imprint Bundle are to be donated. This includes the Press share and the shares for the volunteer authors. The breakdown works out as follows (all amounts are USD):

Gross sales: $907.51 Processing Fees: $39.05

Net Sales: $868.46 Press Share (pre-donation): $217.11 Collective Share to Split Among the Authors (Including to-be-donated shares): $651.34

As such,

Total Amount Collected for Charity: $346.08

We decided to round this up to $350, since that’s a nice, even number, and so we’ve donated $175 to each of the charities!

THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this event such a success for Duck Prints Press, our authors, and our chosen charities!

Hey everybody!! I've been part of the Culture Study community for a while now--they used to run a mutual aid fund through Discord, and if we're friends you might remember they helped my family afford veterinarian care through that fund.

This year the creator of Culture Study is highlighting Trans Santa for the holidays, and gathering donations together to help fund large purchases off the organization's gift registries.

You can see the Venmo and Paypal info and other details in the post I've linked. I can personally vouch for her trustworthiness and for the next week she's going to match up to $1000 of donations she collects.