This site has always been free. The training briefs are free. The research database is free. The blog posts are free. That is not changing. The information that needs to reach practitioners, survivors, attorneys, and policymakers cannot have a paywall between itself and the people who need it most.
What is not free is getting it off a screen and into rooms. Printing. Distributing. Making sure a stack of flyers ends up in a courthouse waiting room where a family navigating their first CPS encounter will actually find it before they walk into a hearing they were never prepared for. That costs money — modest amounts of money, honestly — and until now there has been no direct way for people who want to support this work to do so.
There is now.
What the Money Goes To
How to Give
Both are direct — no processing delay, no platform overhead between your contribution and its use. Give what you can. Five dollars buys a stack of flyers. Twenty covers a packet run. There is no minimum and no wrong amount.
If Money Is Not Something You Have Right Now
If you are a survivor navigating the systems this site documents, the last thing you need is a guilt trip about not donating. You are not the target audience for the ask. You are the reason the ask exists.
What you can do instead: share one post. Print one training brief at a library and leave it somewhere. Submit your story to the podcast. Subscribe to the newsletter. Tell one person this site exists. Any of those things moves this work forward in ways that money alone cannot.
The support page is live at killtheprecedent.com/donate.html. It also lists professional ways to contribute — attorneys, researchers, designers, and developers who want to give time instead of money.
Thank you for being here. This work grows with the community that carries it.
— Toni Bones