Thank You for Supporting 20 Years of Writing Community!
It’s 2022, and we are celebrating 20 years of our fabulous writing community! To help sustain JRW for 20 more years, please consider donating. Recurring gifts (monthly or annually) are the best way to ensure JRW is able to continue to support and inspire writers of all genres and skill levels for years to come. But, a one-time gift is always appreciated as well! Your support helps to provide:
Education and professional development for writers at all levels of expertise
Scholarships for aspiring writers
A platform for writers to share their work and expand their audiences
Vital opportunities for building community and connections with other writers
A thriving literary community
But it also helps us
Pay honoraria and travel for nationally known speakers, like Beth Macy, Stephanie Foo, T J Klune, and more
Create and share accessible programming via Zoom, Teachable, and other platforms
Offer discounted advocacy discussions, like our panels on Book Banning and Censorship and on The Role of Local Journalism in a Healthy Democracy
Bring agents, editors, and other literary professionals to you for one-on-one meetings
Host our database, run our website, and beam our smiling faces into your living rooms
Are you interested in exploring our Leadership Giving opportunities?
INTRODUCING THE LITERARY LEGACY SOCIETY
If you’d like to give a gift of $1000 or more, please consider becoming a member of our new Literary Legacy Society.
Find out more HERE.
Tax-deductible donations help fulfill a central role in our goal as a nonprofit.
When making decisions about how to execute our mission, there are many considerations that must be taken into account. We are constantly balancing the desire to expand our reach and serve our current members to the best of our ability while being mindful of our very real budget constraints.
While program registrations (including the annual James River Writers Conference, The Writing Show, and Master Classes) make up the bulk of JRW’s funding, registrations don’t make us money. The entirety of the ticket sales goes back into producing the program.
We strive to make our programming as accessible and affordable as possible. We can’t realize our mission to build community if people can’t attend our programs. So, we reach for the midpoint between charging enough for programming that we don’t sink our budget while making it affordable for as many people as possible.
Direct donations, including corporate and personal gifts, make up the second largest source of our funding. A large number of our donations are under $100 yet, cumulatively, they allow us to close the gap on our programming shortfalls. We also depend upon them to help us bring in exciting speakers from outside the Richmond area, rent event space, and cover ever-increasing costs.
We are also thankful for the generosity and vision of the business community and the public sector in central Virginia. By expanding our region’s literacy and enriching its culture, we strengthen its social and economic fabric.
If our community support were to disappear, the entire organization would begin to teeter. We would need to dramatically cut back or end programming, which could lead to a loss of support among membership and an erosion of the community we’ve been striving to build for more than a decade.
As a show of appreciation, JRW gives a complimentary yearly membership to individuals who donate at least $250 or sponsor an event at or above the $500 level.
Contact us if you would like more information about being a corporate sponsor.