Join WEAF's Blogathon – It's for a very good cause.
The sagging economy has been particularly rough on free-lancers. ASJA's Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (WEAF) has seen a 500 percent increase in grant requests from desperate writers. In the past few months WEAF has given out much more money than it has received in donations – that's a trend we can't sustain much longer.
Please join our blogathon to spread the word about WEAF's financial needs – and its continuing commitment to help writers through the kind of extraordinary professional crises we've been hearing so much about lately. Send a link to your post to WEAFHelp@gmail.com and we'll add it to the links below.
The cries for help from fellow writers are heart-breaking:
- A single mom with credits in top magazines and a four-year-old daughter is unable to work during chemotherapy for breast cancer. Worse, her high-deductible health plan isn't adequately covering her huge medical bills.
- A proud dance critic, age 89, who has written professionally for more than 50 years, has no money to pay for nursing care needed after developing serious complications after a hip replacement.
- Another widely published writer faced foreclosure and cutoff of her utilities after her son's potentially life-threatening illness drained her savings.
How can we not respond to needs like these? We're making an unprecedented appeal for help – please consider a monthly pledge to be paid over the coming year. As little as $20 a month can help.
Click the button to donate.
Or mail a check made out to "ASJA Charitable Trust" to ASJA, 1501 Broadway, Suite 403, New York, NY 10036. Gifts are fully tax-deductible -- and mean everything to the needy freelancers we serve.
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