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[personal profile] sylvaine
[personal profile] sharpeningthebones is asking for help to get their car repaired. Them and their housemates are looking to get out of a really shitty living situation (like, their house is quite literally falling apart - one of the rooms doesn't have a roof, and only two of the rooms are actually livable) and they need their car to get all their stuff moved. One of their housemates, [personal profile] thelinesoflearning, is also offering tarot readings, writing, editing, audio recording, graphic making, and filking to raise money for this. Please consider helping if you have money to spare.
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[personal profile] girlingoldboots
Hello everyone, just wanted to let everyone know that I appreciated the help I received from this community before. Things are looking better, but just when I thought things were looking up until Read more... )

On the upside I have gotten help with the student loan issue, and they may be forgiven. Please keep fingers crossed!

Thank you all again for your help and support.
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[personal profile] worlds_of_smoke
I had a surgery earlier this month and have had complications from it. I'm trying to raise money to afford wound care supplies while I heal, since they're not covered by my insurance. I'm selling tarot readings here and, even if you're not able to buy a reading, I'm giving away free 2-card readings.

If you could help out, even just to signal boost things, I'd appreciate it tons. Thanks.
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[personal profile] inoru_no_hoshi
Several days ago, 14/1/2014, my friend [twitter.com profile] KDSarge's teenage daughter, Hope, ran away from their home in Arizona. There's still no news on her whereabouts as of 10pm PST.

From the original post on KD's blog:
Yesterday my daughter ran away to chase her dream (being a rock star) even though she can’t sing or play. She’s barely fifteen, and apparently she’s headed to California. All her friends seem as surprised as I am.


Since then, several followup links have been posted, from the original get-the-message-out post on Tumblr, to another two tumblr posts, one with more descriptions, and one with some fuller pictures of Hope, to a followup post on her blog with more pictures, and the creation of a Find Hope facebook page with further information (including Hope's note to her mother).

I've known KD for a few years now, and she's a great person. Please signal boost however you can - tweet it, reblog KD's tumblr posts, share it on Facebook, even in your own journals, whatever - especially if you live in the southwest US or know people who do. The more eyes on this, the more people aware and putting out info, the better chance there is Hope will be found (hopefully). Let's get the word out.

Thanks. ♥

I'll be adding more info to my personal signal-boosting post as and when it becomes available. ETA: She's been found! \o/
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[personal profile] kaberett
Gods willing I will get my top surgery funded by the NHS. That's really, really not an option for the vast majority of people. This dude needs a hand - please do consider chipping in if you can.
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[personal profile] kaberett
I have two friends doing astonishing things, currently, seeking crowdfunding/support.

1. Mia has set up a Patreon account: she brings joy and beauty and light into the world with her art, claws it out of a mire of pain and horror and exhaustion, and sets it gentle between her hands. Patreon is a means to crowd-support artists; Mia says:
I'm a queer Filipina artist who recently immigrated to Australia for True Love. My heart lives halfway between the Philippines -- the land of my birth and the beat of my blood, pugad ng luha ko't dalita -- and Australia, a place whose song I am only just learning, where I am just beginning to put down roots.



2. CN Lester, of a gentleman and a scholar, the Transpose series of fundraisers showcasing trans artists and performers, raising money for charities supporting LGBT+ populations, is crowdfunding their latest album, Aether. I've heard it performed live twice now and I cannot wait to get my hands on a recording of my own - CN is honest and heartbreaking about mood disorders and grief, and sings to you-the-audience about how beautiful you are, how beautiful you look from their perspective, and -- yes. Yes. It is a thing of joy and of wonder, also.
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[personal profile] shoaling_souls
Hi everyone! My future wife and I have been in a ldr for four years now and she's a really good person and we love each other a lot and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. She's a software developer, but she was laid off a few years back and since then we've been working on building a website together that is finally almost done and ready to launch in a month or two which will be great because we'll start having an income again. We've got some opportunities for start up funds that'll be coming through possibly as soon as January or February, so if we can get to that point, we'll be okay.

But she was just a little bit late for rent recently and despite having been a tennant there for 13 years and always being on time before, they sent her an eviction notice. If she can't pay up, she'll be evicted a week before Christmas, and then we'll both end up homeless, far away from each other.

She's set up a gofundme thing, and I'm boosting the signal to try to keep this from happening. She is willing to either pay you back with interest or give you credit towards a paid account on our site once it's launched, whichever you prefer. She gives more information at the link about how she got to where she is right now, which you should read to make your own decision about whether to help. She is a survivor of a transmisogynistic hate crime, which she mentions in the post without going into graphic detail and it's trigger warned but I just wanted to give you a heads up if that will be triggery for you maybe skip that part. It's about halfway down the page or so. The PTSD stemming from that incident is a large factor in the bind she's in right now.

Anyway, please help if you can, either by donating or signal boosting. We'd really appreciate it. http://www.gofundme.com/5m36ps
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[personal profile] theorclair
I have just found out I need around ten thousand dollars worth of dental work. I live off social security disability checks and usually don’t have much money left to save.

Someone suggested a fundraiser for me. I’m trying to earn money in other ways but I decided now is not the time to be proud and set one up.

http://www.gofundme.com/akdentalfund

Link to picture of treatment plan: http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/catsmith9/20130220144759.jpg

I can beta fanfic for spelling and grammar in any fandom, or original fiction. edit: Or anything in English, really. If for some demented reason someone wants some oneshot or missing scene from the one fanfic I’m writing I’ll do that too.

Tumblr post (if you have a tumblr please reblog it!): http://theorclair.tumblr.com/post/47331119522/guess-who-needs-dental-work-she-cant-afford If you don't have a tumblr share it on facebook or any other site you belong to.

This is causing me endless worry, since I've only been able to raise some of the funds.
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[personal profile] kshandra
My friend Angela "Muse" Williams was married just two weeks ago; a fire broke out in their home this morning in the pre-dawn hours. She and her husband escaped from an upstairs window, resulting in a broken foot for her, and their dogs are being treated for smoke inhalation. They quite literally have nothing but the clothes on their backs (not even shoes), and friends have set up an IndieGogo campaign to help them recover.

http://igg.me/at/doghousefire/x/1033705
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[personal profile] sylvaine
[personal profile] justtothesea's father has recently passed away & her & her family need all the help they can get with the funeral & upcoming bills. To that end, [personal profile] justtothesea is offering art & video commissions. See her post on DW or on tumblr for further details on pricing & fandoms & such.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic
The difference between malice and incompetence is generally in how hard you want to punch the offender after.

[personal profile] mathsnerd was in hospital for quite a while. While she was there, some of her important stuff, like iPod and money, disappeared. Her food and shelter needs are mostly taken care of, and she is trying to raise money to replace her things and to save against emergencies.

(crossposted: my journal & [community profile] signalboost.)

[Edited to correct her journal name. Ah, full names vs. nicknames.]
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[personal profile] ex_we935
Project
Starting up an autistic-run graphic/web design microbusiness
Benefitting: Us; we're trying to raise funds to live on over the next few months - we're full-time students and use financial aid to cover living expenses - and have the cash to publicise our work so that we can reach out to potential clients! We have experience doing graphic and web design work for individuals and organisations; if you'd like to see some of our work, you can visit our portfolio site.

Recently, there's been an increase in autistic- and Asperger's-run entrepreneurial companies that leverage the skills of people on the spectrum. This allows many people to find a niche that incorporates their skills, as opposed to dealing with a system that doesn't always accommodate them well. Since we have a strong passion for using our creative and technical skills to create aesthetically appealing websites and graphics, we'd like to share that with the general public.

Description
As we're on the autistic spectrum, this makes it more difficult for us to take typical student jobs that require a lot of constant social interaction and tasks that directly run up against the things that we struggle with the most. We've currently been sending out applications for paid internships; however, nothing has come out of these so far. We are also new to the area and don't have a large network quite yet. We'll be getting some help with our rent cheques over the summer (during the academic year, financial aid covers our expenses, but it's much harder during breaks); however, we need to come up with the other ~half or so.
The remainder of the description, as well as the awesome perks that YOU get, is under the cut! )
Any contribution helps! We'll give our paypal address in screened comments. If you can't donate yourself, feel free to pass this on on DW or LJ.

(will be crossposted to [community profile] signalboost! Feel free to link to this.)
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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
Project: May 7, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl -- today's theme is "homonyms, puns, and wordplay."
Benefitting: My household -- this is my dayjob.
Cost: Free to prompt and read. This project is crowdfunded, so people may sponsor a specific poem or donate to the general fund if they wish.
Perks: Boosting the signal reveals a verse of the linkback perk poem, "The Voyage to Vaucouleurs," if you comment with the URL of your link. If there is at least one new prompter or donor, you get a second freebie poem. Sponsors of specific poems get non-exclusive reprint rights to the poem they fund. There are also collective perks for donation thresholds.

Description: A fishbowl is a creative activity where people collaborate and observe the results. Give me an idea and I'll write a poem based on it. I post one poem free in return for the prompts. I also post thumbnail descriptions of other poems so potential donors can decide what they want to sponsor.  You can post prompts, or just hang out on my blog and enjoy the discussion and free poetry.  Visit today's fishbowl or the project landing page for more details.
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[personal profile] randomling
Hi, all!

So right now things are quite tough in places, but one awesome thing is happening next month. Dreamwidth is sending me to YAPC::NA, and thanks to their generosity, everything is sorted - except the money to feed myself when I'm there.

Thanks to the government turning me down for benefits I'm entitled to, and to my not being well enough to work, I've currently got no income and no way of putting that money together on my own. So I'm asking for help.

The campaign is here.

I'm flying out on the 1st of June, which means I need the money to be in Paypal at least a week before that so I can transfer it to my bank account and use it. Apparently it will take Indiegogo two weeks or so to get the money to Paypal, so what that ends up with is me having seven days to raise this money.

It seems like a lot of money to raise in a very short amount of time.

There are perks - writing ones and coding ones - and you know I will give you my eternal gratitude for helping me to make this happen.

I'd love if you could donate something - every penny counts. And if you can't do that, I'd love if you could boost the signal.

Thanks, loves!
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