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Help sustain Scarleteen!

Thank you for considering a contribution to help Scarleteen continue to provide comprehensive, inclusive and original sex education for millions of young adults as we have for the last ten years.

Here's the part where I tell you why the help you can give is so important and essential.

Whether it's $10, $50 or $200, whatever you give makes a difference that helps sustain us to do this important work, and to keep Scarleteen around and thriving for the young adults who need it and have come to depend on us for progressive, inclusive and comprehensive sexuality support and information.

SPECIAL! For donations of over $75, donors will receive a signed copy of the long-awaited young adult sexuality guide, S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College, by Scarleteen founder Heather Corinna. If you are donating over this amount and would like a copy, be sure to include your shipping address in the window provided by Paypal.

For donors of over $75 who do not include shipping information, it will be assumed a book copy is not wanted: to receive a signed copy, information must be provided at the time of donation. For those donating over $75 who do not want their copy, it will be sent to a young adult Scarleteen user who has expressed a need for one and a lack of funds or ability to get one for themselves.

We offer the option of one-time donation of any amount, as well as two recurring donation options of $10 or $20, for those who wish to sustain Scarleteen in an ongoing fashion without having to remember to come back and donate. Donations are managed securely via Paypal: donors may give funds via Paypal accounts or may pay with any major credit card or debit card. Receipts will reflect a payment to Paypal/Scarlet Letters. Recurring donors will be automatically rebilled by Paypal, with whatever payment method they chose, each month. You may cancel the recurring donation via Paypal at any time. One-time donors will be charged at whatever amount they choose, only once.

Scarleteen is an independent, comprehensive and inclusive sexuality clearinghouse for young adults which receives no federal, state or local funding. At the current time, we serve anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 users daily, providing accurate, personable sexuality information via static content, as well as one-on-one advice and counseling via our moderated, fully staffed message boards and our sexpert advice area. Over the years we have operated, millions of teens and young adults have found the help they were seeking here.

We have been operating since December of 1998, and have been applauded and recognized widely: over 1,200 sites currently link to Scarleteen.com, we have been referenced in numerous sex education books, and a large handful of clinics and youth organizations have used our materials for those they serve.

As those who work on the web know, while many services -- including all we offer at Scarleteen -- are free on the user-end, they are not free to provide, especially for a site of this size, depth, heritage and reach. Given the lack of support for teens in general, and the lack of support for comprehensive sex education, we usually operate at a deficit. Because the userbase we serve often does not have the means to donate themselves, despite our high traffic of those users, we depend primarily on young adult parents, allies and mentors to help us sustain this service for the teens we all care for.

The last year or two in particular has hit us very hard: we have had greater expenses and far fewer donations. While the workload here has continued to increase, without the funds to sustain the site and the one paid staff member to manage every aspect, the majority of the work on the site tends to fall on that sole individual, which is often grossly unmanageable (even with plenty of coffee and very little sleep!).

Scarleteen is, and has always been funded primarily by private donations: donations are essential to our survival as an organization, but with an issue as loaded as inclusive, comprehensive young adult sexual education we rarely get enough donations to pay our bills, let alone enough to help us thrive and start new programs or additional resources. If you support what we do, and support the idea that young adults should be able to get accurate, inclusive and caring sexuality information and help when they need it, we ask that you do what you can to help support us in that endeavor.

For information on where your donation will go this year, click here. For more information on why what we do is so important, click here, take a look at the main site or the message boards, read one of our pieces about your work, such as What Is Feminist sex Education? or A Calm View from the Eye of the Storm, or find out more general information about us here.

To donate to Scarleteen, click on one of the buttons at the top of the page for the donation type you would like to make.

If a financial contribution is not possible for you, please consider helping in other ways. We are always in need of volunteer writers for new content, help with fundraising and promotion, volunteers for our busy message boards; we are in need of those who have skills in locating possible grants and writing grant applications, help with backend development, and assistance in being sure the information we have here is as current and accurate as possible. If you'd like to talk about volunteering, use the contact link at the bottom of every page to let us know. Thanks so much!


Thanks to our supporters!

A very special thanks to those who have generously donated their time, efforts or dollars to help sustain and support Scarleteen in our work. We couldn't do it without you!

Sex Ed Angels

donations over $1000 or volunteer equivalent
Anonymous
The Eleanor Fund
Clare Sainsbury
Nathanael Nerode
Jane Duvall

Patron Saints

donations over $500 or volunteer equivalent
Ken Davenport
Kristina Wright
Agrimony Photography
Todd Belton
Debra Hyde
Sabrina Dent, Satin Slippers
Gray Miller and family, Satorimedia
Audra Estrones Williams, Lefty Lucy
Richard Fraser
Becca Nelson
The Bryant-Lake Bowl
Al Pontyondy-Smith
Kaari Busick
Anonymous

Patrons

donations over $100 or volunteer equivalent
Chloe Blokker-Dalquist
Amy Gibby
Nicole Erny
Carol Queen
Lisa Miya-Jervis, Bitch Magazine
Molly Bennett and Holly Hanson
Elise Matthiesen
Barbara Sher
Lisa Richards
Kythryne Aisling and Amy Linari
Yvette McDonald
The LiveJournal Polyamory Community
West Delta Ladies' Club
Harriet Culver
Heather Spear & Dykes Do Drag
Sarah Larsen
Jaco and Ingrid
Frank and Lisa Richards
Chris Bridges
Becca Nelson
Aaron Hawkins
Kerry Nancarrow
eCrush
Erin Karper
Louise Lalonde
Sarah Riley
Caro Buccheim
Lisa D. Link
David K.
Soapbox Girls

Sponsors

donations over $50 or volunteer equivalent
Karoline Gostl
The Beltane Papers
Zaedryn Meade
Rebecca Pearson
Tracy Omagbemi
Ronald Nigh
Nathan and Cheryl Sherman
Stacy Bias, Technodyke.com
Toys in Babeland
Linda Morgan
Ann Will
Kristina Detmer
Anonymous from Alberta, Canada

Friends

donations over $10 or volunteer equivalent
Babeland
Chris Hall
Elizabeth Wood
David Chess
Sara Astruc
Melissa McCarthy
Lynn Hansen
Elizabeth Lundsten
Katie Mihaly
Stephanie Levi
Newt Ashman
Debra Mansperger
Susannah Indigo
Uther
Anne Semans and Cathy Winks
Early to Bed

Want your recent donation to be listed here? Email us! We like to recognize those who help sustain us, but also respect the need for privacy. If you would like to be included on our donors page, please let us know in the comments field of your donation, or by contacting us through email. If you do not include that wish, we will assume you would prefer to be an anonymous donor and will not include your name in our list.