Health Rising has had a good year. Traffic has almost doubled and our subscriptions have more than doubled. We’ve published almost 400 blogs since Health Rising started in December 2012. Just in the past month or so some of the blogs we’ve published include
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A Mystery No Longer: the Big Picture Coming Together for Dr. Bateman
- Fatigue Explained? Japanese Assert Brain Damage Causes Fatigue in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- The ‘Insulted Midbrain’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Unnerving Findings: Studies Opening New Directions for Fibromyalgia
- Biomarker for Fatigue Could Help Validate Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- High Muscle Acid Accumulations in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome May Be Reversible
- System Reset: New Way To Reduce Fight or Flight Response Found
You can’t get this kind of information anywhere else on the internet. Nobody provides the kind of information, week in and week out, that we do.
Recurring Donation Drive
We’re asking you to support that information flow with a $5 (or $10 or more?) a month recurring donation. You’ll hardly notice it – a little blip in your budget – but your donation can produce miracles for Health Rising. One hundred people out of the thousands that visit Health Rising every day giving $5 a month would bring $500/month more for us. That’s pretty darn big money for us.
Think about this. We’ll be at 5,000 subscribers soon. A thousand people giving just $5/month would bring in $5,000/month. Our budget would quintuple, Health Rising would be self-supporting and you would very quickly have a slew of website programs that would help you find better treatments faster, hook up with people in your local community, find good doctors, etc.
It’s all about the numbers.
Please participate. You’ll hardly notice it but Health Rising will….
To become a recurring donor simply go the right sidebar of any page and enter Option #1 in the Do It Monthly section and hit the Subscribe button… (Please note that hitting the Donate will not work for recurring donations – you must hit the Subscribe button.)
Already a Recurring Donor? Want to increase your donation? Simply send me an email stating that and I will stop your current donation and you can restart it. We’ve added more payment options. You can now be a monthly donor at $5, $10, $15, $20, $25, $50, $100, $150, $250 and yes, $500! :))
Can’t Find Our Donation Widget on Your Table or Cell Phone? – If you have a cell phone or tablet and the donation widget is not showing up you can now sign up for recurring donation or give one-time donations on this page.
(Health Rising never provides your email address or personal information to outside parties.)
Projects
We expected several projects (Forums, Community Rising, Physician Review, Lives Interrupted, new website) would be done by now but they had to put off. Several are expected to be done soon. They, too, are part of this fundraising drive.
Other Ways to Support Health Rising
Amazon.com
With the holiday shopping season coming up please keep in mind our Amazon.com store. Health Rising gets from 4-10% of every purchase you make on Amazon.com through our Amazon.com search boxes for the U.S., the U.K. and Canada. Simple enter the product you want to buy in any of the search boxes found on the right hand side of the every page on the website (or on our Amazon.com shopping page) and you’ll be earning money for Health Rising while you shop.
To become a recurring donor simply go the right sidebar of any page and enter Option #1 in the Do It Monthly section and hit the Subscribe button…
Not everyone reads your blog on cpu Cort surely You realize that There is no sidebar or option1 on my not so smart phone you seriously should think about more than one way to contribute. Thanks for your wonderful work It is appreciatec.
No sidebar on my note 8. What is domain blog address. Will do monthly grateful grateful for all you do!
Thanks John,
We’re going to input a new theme and that problem should be fixed. Domain blog address is cortjohnson.org.
Thanks for your help!
Yep how do we donate from iphone?
Hi Grant.
We’ve put a one-time donation and recurring donation section on this page – http://www.cortjohnson.org/supporting-health-rising/donations/ – If you click on that link it should show up fine on your mobile now…..
Thanks for asking. 🙂
We’ve put a one-time donation and recurring donation section on this page – http://www.cortjohnson.org/supporting-health-rising/donations/ – If you click on that link it should show up fine on your mobile now…..
Thanks for asking. 🙂
I receive a large number of ME/CFS related emails and newsletters. Cort’s Health Rising is by far the most valuable comprehensive information I receive and pass along to others on a regular basis. Many of us contribute to Health Rising at different times during the year, but this automatic monthly donation offers an easy alternative to periodic checks. If you are in a position to contribute to Health Rising, please don’t hesitate to do so. While the donation is not tax deductible, it’s worth every single penny to keep this site up and running. Thank you Cort for continuing to be a great source of information!
Thanks Pat. (I agree….:))
Eleven people have agreed to contribute $5 month and I person has agreed to contribute $10 month so far.
Sixteen people have pledged to give $5 or more (1 people at $10) a month. Thanks to every body who’s helping out.
Our goal is 50 new recurring donors at $5/month to keep Health Rising at least somewhat healthy (:)). Counting the one $10/month donors as double we’re about a third of the way there.
This site is run on very little – and asks for very little. If you find this information valuable please support it!
Cort,
As a current monthly sustainer, and an experienced fundraiser I want to challenge your current monthly sustainers (like myself) to ADD $5 to what they are contributing now. I am happy to do that and as soon as I figure out HOW you will have my additional $5! Keep up the good work!
Chris Williams
Thanks Chris!
I’m on it 🙂
I’ll let you know…
Paypal has informed me that the way to do this is to send me an email stating you want to increase your monthly donation. I will stop your current donation and you can restart it at the desired amount. .
We’ve added more payment options by the way in order to help with this.
You can now be a monthly donor at $5, $10, $15, $20, $25 as well as $50, $100, $150, $250 and yes, $500! :))
Thanks for asking!
Ok let me know!
Thanks Chris!
Paypal has informed me that the way to do this is to send me an email stating you want to increase your monthly donation. I will stop your current donation and you can restart it at the desired amount. .
We’ve added more payment options by the way in order to help with this.
You can now be a monthly donor at $5, $10, $15, $20, $25 as well as $50, $100, $150, $250 and yes, $500! :))
Hi Cort
I went in to donate but can’t find the right hand side bar- I’m on a Mac Pro???
I’ve been reading your blogs ever since my daughter was diagnosed with ME/CFS and they are the best the most informative and give us both hope.
Ozzie
Thanks Ozzie,
We’ve put a one-time donation and recurring donation section on this page – http://www.cortjohnson.org/supporting-health-rising/donations/ – If you click on that link it should show up fine on your Mac Pro there…..
Thanks for asking. 🙂
I want to contribute 10 or more per month. Is there any other way to send funds?
Wendy
Cort
We have been an avid supporter of Health Rising since inception and hope that the CFS/ME community will step up to the plate with the funding needed to to stay viable and reach even new heights.
It is imperative that all readers assist as means allow. Health Rising offers the biggest bang for the buck out there and is deserving of support.
Thanks for all you do.
Rod
Rod and Avis have been great supporters of Health Rising – I can’t thank them enough…
We have 37 $5 or more recurring donations – 13 more to go to meet our goal. 🙂
I signed up for a donation but I didn’t see anywhere to make it monthly, recurring. I don’t know if I am on the monthly donation or not.
My apologies on the confusion, Joyce. I just sent you an email.
Thanks for your support!
Yours truly,
Cort
Cort,
Thanks for your invaluable blog! I’ve been reading regularly since Feb. 2014 and have been meaning to sign up for recurring donations. I finally did it today with an additional one-time donation for all those months I’ve been getting it for free. The information you share is definitely worth paying for; I understand much more about my long-time CFS condition from reading your blogs.
Hope you make your goal of 50 new sign-ups! You deserve it!
Thanks Cathy for your one-time donation and for becoming a recurring donator and for your nice words!
You were the 49th person during this drive to provide a $5 or more recurring donation :)…One more person to go to make our goal:)
Thanks again
Cort
We’ve made our target and are hoping for a couple more 🙂