I built the original version of this web site in 1996. When it
came to web site design and creation, I was entirely self-taught
and self-funded - and still am (& it shows in
terms of design - I'm no web designer...)
I regularly expand and update my web site based on my work
experiences, research, travels and volunteering, continuing to
fund it myself, mostly out of my own pocket but also from advertising I have on these pages
(which is about $10 a year, down from about $35 a month when
Google paid a fair price years ago).
All of the material offered on pages on this web site is free to
you, the reader. However, the majority of the many hours I spend
developing and sharing material is unfunded.
If you have benefited from using any of these pages and would
like to support the time that went into developing
material, researching information, updating pages, etc.,
you can do so by doing any of the following:
Hire me! I offer a variety of consulting services that
can help nonprofits, NGOs, government agencies and other
mission-based organizations. I can undertake projects large
and small, short-term and long-term.
Pay me whatever you think is
appropriate via Paypal or via
Venmo. My web site costs me $5 a month for hosting, plus
about $100 a year for all the domain names I use. Internet
access is anywhere from $60 to $90 a month. Altogether, it
costs me more than $700 a year to provide this web site - and
that doesn't include my time in researching, developing and
publishing these materials, plus those on my YouTube channel,
that you are use for free.
Send me anything from my
Thrift Book Wish list or from my Amazon wish list. Books and videos
make me happy! That includes gently used stuff.
Purchase the book I wrote, which, like this web
site, was also written and compiled by me in a completely
unfunded capacity, and published by Energize,
Inc. with partial funding by me as well:
The Last
Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
by Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis
available
for purchase as a paperback & an ebook.
Published by Energize, Inc.
documenting best practices for
working with online volunteers, based on the more than
three decades that virtual volunteering has been
happening.
Or you can buy motorcycle travel accessories from my husband -
he designs or curates these himself:
Adventure
Motorcycle Luggage & Accessories
www.coyotetrips.com
Aluminum Panniers and Top
Cases,
Top Case Adapter Plates,
Tough Motorcycle Fuel Containers, & More!
Designed or Curated by an
experienced adventure motorcycle world traveler
Based in Oregon
You won't find these exact
products anywhere else;
these are available only from Coyotetrips
Appalshop. Since
1969, this amazing nonprofit has documented and celebrated
the life, culture and voice of people living in Appalachia
and all of rural America. Appalshop is based in Whitesburg,
Kentucky and houses an art gallery, 150-seat theater, a
community radio station, a regional archive and media
production and training facilities. Appalshop supports rural
communities’ efforts to achieve justice and equity and solve
their own problems in their own ways.
CARE, for their work in Afghanistan.
Mayhew International, a charity based
in the UK which is the only organization I know of working
to help dogs and cats in Afghanistan, where I lived for six
months.
Desert Haven Animal Shelter, a
severely-under-supported animal shelter in Nevada working in
a high-poverty, very harsh-weather area of the USA.
Or give to any local nonprofit theater, any local agency helping refugees, any local agency promoting access to abortion services, any local nonprofit animal shelter or dog rescue, any local PBS or NPR affiliate, or any nonprofit local news organization like the Kentucky Lantern or the Texas Tribune.
To know when I have developed a new
resource related to the above subjects, found a great
resource by someone else, published
a
new blog,
uploaded a new
video,
or to when & where I'm training or presenting, use any
of the following social media apps to follow me on any of
these social media platforms:
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