Annual Fundraising Campaign

Costs for StayLDS.com

It only costs about $200 per year right now to run things. We also host the FacesEast.org forums from our servers. That amount covers the server space rental, bandwidth and miscellaneous small fees like domain registrations, etc.

The admins and moderators are not paid. That is all volunteer. I still take care of the technical stuff on the back end: monitoring the server, updating software, approving new users, and solving tech problems as they come up. So we don’t have to pay for tech support or content generation services. We’ve added several new moderators recently to help keep our community focused on the support goals. Their time and energy is GREATLY appreciated (thank you!).

What’s a good donation? Really, if a dozen or more people can donate $20, that would do it. I think it would be nice to contribute some to the larger organization. But that is up to everyone who feels they can give of their resources.

In any case, so much love to all of you! Thank you for being here for others and participating. Thank you for continuing to be a positive community, and supportive of people who come here looking for help, looking for people who understand and are just willing to listen without freaking out. Just a few years ago, nothing like this existed.

Thank you for continuing to be a positive community, and supportive of people who come here looking for help, looking for people who understand and are just willing to listen without freaking out. Just a few years ago, nothing like this existed.

Thank you, Brian, and everyone else….

I am in!

PayPal can also accept credit cards, btw. I don’t think you have to setup a full Paypal account to send someone money who is in the Paypal system.

Fwiw, that’s what I did. (No Paypal account.)

Hi everyone. It’s that time of the year again to renew the hosting account and pay a couple bills for this site.

If you feel you have benefited from the community here, please consider giving a small donation to help fund the on going operation of the community. We are funded through the Open Stories Foundation which also funds the Mormon Stories Podcast, Mormon Matters, A Thoughtful Faith, and other support projects. Donations go through them, and are tax-deductible.

There’s a PayPal donation button on our main webpage at http://www.staylds.com. Please click on that and follow the instructions.

Thank You.

-Brian

Just double-checking because I made my donation by clicking on the PayPal button you mention, but the process didn’t include designating the $ specifically for StayLDS. It said Mormon Stories and Open Stories.

I’m waiting on a response from the new guy who handles the finances for the Open Stories group. I will see how things go this year. No reason to think that anything is different, but it’s a topic I ask John Dehlin about each year. For now, feel free to donate to the Open Stories Foundation to support their many support projects. StayLDS.com doesn’t take much money to run. The hosting fees are about all there is now, which cost around $140 per year. I paid it out of pocket a couple weeks so there wouldn’t be any interruption. It’s a busy time of year for me at work, so I didn’t get around to ironing everything out until the other day. We can always switch to a crowd funding model too, if we ever needed to. The only thing that would do is lose the small tax-deduction advantage.

Update:

Open Stories Foundation is funding the site this year. Let’s talk about it again next year and see what the community wants to do.

Thank you to everyone who has financially supported the site over the years. Even more important than that though is the GREAT work everyone does here to reach out and help our sisters and brothers in their time of need — during that tough tough time of faith transition. You all continue to inspire me. You help keep people on a positive journey and help keep families together.

Thank You.