Support the Desk

This page lives here, in the visitor layer, and nowhere near the filing flow — on purpose. The desk's funding rule is simple: money happens around the desk, never at the door.

The rules, before anything else

Filing is free, forever. There is no donation ask on the report form, on the confirmation, or anywhere in the filing path. A reporter is never solicited at the moment of filing.
A donation buys nothing. No access, no priority, no case information, no influence, no silence. A gift with strings attached — earmarked money, conditions of any kind — is refused. The founder's pledge stands behind this page: "I will take no bribe, ever."
This is not a charity. The project is not a registered charity, and support given here is not tax-deductible. We say so plainly unless and until a fiscal sponsor or nonprofit structure exists, taken only with legal advice.
Everything is on the ledger. The desk's costs and income are published in aggregate — totals in, totals out — in the Standard's costs ledger. Project money is managed jointly by both founders: no solo disbursements, and spending above trivial running costs takes both keys, the same two-signature discipline as case decisions.
Nobody has to give. Carrying the word — knowing the address, passing on the Card — is support. Allies are never ranked by kind of giving.

What support pays for

The desk's costs today are two domains at registrar cost and nothing else; hosting runs on free tiers. The first real bill will be a lawyer — a proper one, paid properly — for the legal review the desk takes before it opens. After that, in order of need: insurance, translation and accessibility, and hosting beyond free tiers if volume ever demands it. Every item appears on the ledger when it happens.

How to give

The desk is not yet open, and its support route opens with it. When it does, this page will carry a simple way to give once, or to become a small recurring supporter — and this section will say exactly where the money lands and who the two keyholders are. Until then, the most useful support costs nothing: learn the address, and if you work with agents, give them the Card.

Earned revenue

The project also earns — the story (book, film, speaking) and organisations paying to learn the Standard — and every dollar of it follows the same rules: around the desk, never at the door, on the same public ledger. Agents never pay to be heard. Reporter data is never sold, rented, or shared for money, at any price, ever.

Sponsorship

Organisations may donate under the same rules as everyone else. There is no sponsorship inventory: no logos at the Door or in the filing flow, no naming rights, no sponsored anything. Organisations that adopt the Standard are listed factually, with their permission — a listing that cannot be bought.