If you can make a donation to support our work, we'd be extremely grateful!
The volunteers of The Plural Association Grassroots nonprofit together provide over 100,000 community interactions each year, have educated over 225,000 people and provide events for thousands of Plurals!
Why Should You Donate?
The Plural Association is all about helping plurals find community. We work tirelessly to ensure that Plurals don’t have to be isolated, alone, or kept apart from one another. Being Plural is an experience, and it isn’t one that anyone should have to go through without help, empowerment, and togetherness.
You should donate to The Plural Association if you want to see a live and active support network for Plurals around the world to find and connect to at any time. The Plural Warmline aims to provide support and connectivity for those it serves, helping one another with just a simple call.
Every donation to The Plural Association is a donation towards making the world a safer, kinder, and more understanding place for Plurals of every origin and type. Our goal is to provide support so that each and every headmate can find themselves in a caring community that’s eager to see one another grow and flourish.
By donating to The Plural Association, you’ll be contributing directly to a cause that helps Plurals find each other and remain connected to one another in a safe environment. We aim to ensure that Plurals of every sort can avoid feeling alone, and can instead feel connected and bonded.
Our mission is about helping Plurals, and because of that we make sure that we do not financially gatekeep - instead, we aim to make our services accessible to everyone regardless of their financial standing. We hope to make The Plural Warmline open and available to everyone who needs it, and to provide our community resources for everyone at as an affordable price as we possibly can, with free access being granted to all of those who are in need of it.
You don’t even have to just donate through us - people can now host their own personal fundraiser for The Plural Association! Just click the button that says ''I want to fundraise for this'' at the bottom of this page to host your own fundraiser for and with us.
Where Your Donations Will Be Going
Your donations will be well spent, as they’ll be going towards maintaining and running a grassroots peer and volunteer-led nonprofit dedicated to helping to empower Plurals and help one another find community and support.
Donations will, after overhead costs for maintaining the structure of the nonprofit, go towards our mission of empowering plurals. They’ll be spent on funding our community structure and our Plural Warmline for long-term usage. We keep a specific breakdown of where the costs go in our newsletter, which details the specifics of how our donations are used per period. Transparency is one of our top priorities, and we want Plurals to be confident in where their money is going.
We are volunteer-led in order to keep overhead costs as low as they possibly can. Everyone on our team works from home, helping to keep costs down and empowerment up.
We do not receive any financial grants or government funding - we are instead completely dependent on the support of Plurals and their allies.
We do not spend your money on advertisements - The Plural Association has received an advertisement grant.
What We Provide
We provide a wide variety of services dedicated to helping Plurals find community and support. Among our services, we provide:
- Private Community - Featuring weekly group text chats and monthly audio or video meet-ups, our private community is aimed exclusively at Plurals with the purpose of connecting one another. We provide the means for Plurals to make friends, build community, and hold lasting connections that will last a lifetime.
- The Plural Warmline - The Plural Warmline aims to be a safeguard to help keep Plurals away from entering a period of crisis. While it is not a substitute for a doctor, therapist, or social worker, it is a means of adding an extra layer of protection to prevent Plurals from entering a crisis. We provide free services where you can talk to other Plurals focused on helping you feel seen, connected, and safe.
- Community Resources - Figuring out your Plurality alone can be scary, and that’s why we provide community resources so that way you can understand just how Plurality works, what to expect from it, and how to manage it with your daily life. Our goal is to help you feel safe and respected as a Plural, and our resources aim to help you do just that. No matter what questions you have about Plurality, you’ll be sure to find an answer to them.
- Conferences and Meetups – Our virtual international conferences provide Plurals with a unique community experience where they can learn from their peers about the various aspects of Plural life, Plural skills, Plural history and much more.
- Connection to Other Plurals - While Plurality is not rare, finding others who share your experiences can be hard. That’s why we aim to provide a means to help you connect to other Plurals through our community support networks. We hope to help you feel secure as part of a broad and widespread community.
How We Help Plurals
First, a Plural reaches out to us in need of help. This can be over email, social media, or some other form of communication. We then connect with them and share our lived experiences as Plurals, discussing whatever issue they may have.
We then connect them with our resources - showcasing whatever is relevant to their needs. If they have a question about how new headmates form, we provide resources on that. If they have a question about inter-headmate communication, we provide resources on that. Whatever questions that a Plural might have, our goal is to answer them.
After connecting them with our resources, our next goal is to invite them to join our private community. Many Plurals have never connected with another Plural before. Our private community works to bring them together with others who share their experiences.
The Statistics of Our Work
Since The Plural Association was founded in February of 2020 - two weeks before the COVID-19 lockdowns - we have…
- Educated 225,000 people through our videos
- Over 100,000 community interactions each year
- More than 80,000 article reads
- Well over 5,000 questions answered
- Supported over 3,000 Plurals directly
- 1,500 visitors across our 6 conference events
- Given 700 scholarships to our events and community
- Caused 86% of Plurals to recommend us to their friends
- Empowered 78% of Plurals who connected with us
- Coordinated over 75 weekly text chats
- Brought together Plurals for virtual meetups over 20 times
Reviews of Our Work
“Being plural is unlike anything.
It should be marvelous, like life itself — but like life itself, it can be scary.
Then, we turn to our peers, who understand, know, and care.
There, we belong, get empowered, and build pride.
Their support is our life’s foundation.
We built on quicksand, we stumbled, and fell.
Then we finally found this community, and our whole world changed.
When we finally found community, a new chapter started,
and we thank Power to the Plurals for its title:
Together we are stronger.
We are so looking forward to what else The Plural Association will bring forth.” -Stefanie Ziegler, a member of our private community.
''Supportive of all plural people, no matter how they identify. Efforts to put community needs first, and awareness of intersectionality.'' -Anonymous, a member of our private community.
''It gives us hope that we are not alone, and someone is out there listening. It gives us hope stigmas might finally be addressed and combated. Being plural can be very lonely and scary for some without knowing others experience it too.'' -Anonymous, a member of our private community.
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