Sometimes the paychecks arrive late, the bills are overdue, and essential things like tuition and ramen make short work of philanthropy budgets. We understand. Even if you can't make a cash donation to the Office of Letters and Light, there are still many ways to fund NaNoWriMo's adult and youth programs.
NaNoWriMo's Author Sponsorship Program
Walk-a-thonners do it. Marathonners do it. You can now raise money for National Novel Writing Month by getting your novel sponsored by friends and family. Sponsors can donate to you online, and it's all easy as pie. Read more on our Author Sponsorship page, or head here to create an account.
Cool thing: We'll send you a donor thank-you goodie package based on the total amount you raise. Also, getting sponsors for your novel will dramatically increase your commitment to making it to 50K! It's the gift of fear that keeps on giving!
This online bookstore gives a hefty portion of its profits every year to literacy nonprofits, including NaNoWriMo. And they're ready to go a step further, by giving us 7.5% of anything our participants buy through this special NaNoWriMo link.
Cool thing: Your Better World purchases not only help NaNoWriMo, but they also support literacy groups we love like Room to Read and Books for Africa.
This Yahoo-powered search engine donates a penny to the charity of your choice for every search you do. Before you start searching just put "The Office of Letters and Light" in the "Who do you Goodsearch for?" box. That will lock in NaNoWriMo's parent nonprofit as the recipient of all your searches from that point forward.
Goodsearch also offers an installable toolbar to let you search directly from your browser. There are versions for users with Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. You can download and learn more about the toolbar here, and you can go here to troubleshoot.
Cool thing: This costs nothing, and if every NaNoWriMo participant switched to Goodsearch for just one week of November, we could pay for several of our programs through Goodsearch funds alone.
Run by Goodsearch, this allows you to shop at dozens of online shops like iTunes, BarnesandNoble.com, Target.com, eBay.com, and BestBuy.com and have a percentage of your purchase go directly to the Office of Letters and Light.
Cool thing: Now you can help bring NaNoWriMo magic into the lives of thousands by buying a roll of paper towels from Target!
eBay Giving WorksWhen you sell something on eBay, you can choose to have the Office of Letters and Light receive a percentage of the sale. We're already a registered charity at eBay—you just need to pick us from the list.
Cool thing: The Giving Works program overview points out that sellers actually get more money for an item when bidders know the proceeds will go to charity. It's a win-win situation!
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