Donate to Critters.org / Critique.org Workshops
(FYI, it costs $14/day to keep Critters going, if you'd like to donate to cover a day, week, month...) :)
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Fund Drive
The fundraising goal is $.
We're currently
% there.
Thanks!
What's it for? Well, paying the bills to keep the Critters workshop
and the rest of the writer-related features on the Critique.org site going, for one thing;
Comcast internet gets most of it.
So if you're of a mind to donate,
I'd appreciate it!
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As the founder of Critters, I get asked often if anyone can help by
donating to Critters / Critique.org. The site is quite complex,
so I own my own server, thus
it does cost quite a lot each year for the server & net connection,
hardware replacements, backups, and a fair bit of my time, so a donation
would be very much appreciated.
However, I want to make it clear I am committed to
NOT charging any fees for Critters and donations are purely voluntary.
In other words, I am adopting the same funding model that I did for Nyx
(see sidebar).
Thus the idea is that donations are 100% voluntary. If you like Critters
and want to make a donation, I'd be very grateful. If you like Critters
but don't feel inclined to donate, there are other ways you could help
out, but if none of those work for you, that's cool. (If you don't like
Critters, well, what are you doing reading this?... :)
The "Nyx model"
Nyx is the world's first free Internet service (apparenly the first
public Internet service of any kind), which I founded over
30 years ago, and which is still running under this model that I set
up -- see www.Nyx.net.
It's now a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, but still follows the funding
model I established back then: If you like it and want to donate, your
donations go toward running and improving it. Donations are purely
voluntary, so everything remains completely free. Nyx has flourished
this way for a long time on donations, proving that you
don't need to charge fees to provide good services (which was what I
wanted to demonstrate when I created Nyx, and which I suspect has helped
keep Internet access costs from being exorbitant, as they were heading
back then). It's similar to the public radio/TV model, but in the
"Nyx model" there's no government funding -- and no holding people
hostage during fund drives. :) Everything's low key, no pressure.
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Members asked for a monthly donation plan, so I've added that too.
If you feel the urge, you can donate via credit/debit card (Visa/MC/Amex/Discover),
bank echeck, or PayPal...
...or click to get the QR code for Venmo or Zelle...:
...or Click here to donate through Square's cash.me system...
... or you can
buy some of my ebooks, available for
most every reader, and which I'll be glad to sign.
... or you can
buy some ReAnimus Press books.
ReAnimus Press is my publishing company. ReAnimus publishes bestselling and award-winning authors, and a portion of all sales benefits the Critters Fund Drive.
... or you can send cash/checks to me by mail at:
Andrew Burt
P.O.Box 16143
Golden, CO 80402
... or you can
upload a scanned image of a check to me
if you'd like to save the postage costs.
Or...
If you'd like to help but would prefer some other path, other ways you can help that I'd really appreciate would be:
Spread the word. It helps get the word out to new writers if you mention
it in places it appears to be unknown, link to Critters, use the
"Share" button on interesting pages, etc. There are also
several sizes of ads you can place on your web
pages, Facebook, etc.
If you're going to buy something like books, magazines, ebook readers, or
a variety of other things, you might
check out the Critters Store for links from which
Critters gets a portion of each sale.
If you understand pretty well how Critters works (e.g. how the rules work
or how to format manuscripts, etc.), you could volunteer to be a support
person, a member of the CritTech'ers. Just
drop me a note.
You could do extra critiques. Critters is first and foremost about doing
critiques, so the more quality critiques you do, the more you help yourself
and everyone else.
Check out some of my other projects as listed on
www.aburt.com
and spread the word / links.
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Regardless, I hope you enjoy Critters and find it helpful!
And an extra thanks to all these Critter members who've donated:
Thanks!!!
--Andrew Burt,
Founder of Critters
