Publishing and entrepreneurship are not side offerings here. A woman who finishes Crklyn leaves with a business she owns. A woman who finishes Crklyn Publishing leaves with a book that carries her name. Both are income she controls and work no one can take back from her.

That is why giving here reaches further than a single month of relief. Your donation covers the concrete things that make ownership possible — ISBNs, shipping supplies, class materials, workshop seats, the room we meet in — and what a participant builds with them stays hers long after the program ends.

$295 gives ten women a published book.

A 10-pack of ISBN #'s from Bowker costs $295. Donating that amount to purchase those ISBN's gives 10 women the ability to publish and distribute their books. This donation would directly impact our Crklyn Publishing program and the women in it.

Shipping supplies for a woman running her home-based business.

Raw materials for a production batch — soap, salves, and body butters that go out to Portland shelters and partner organizations.

Food and refreshments for a week's gathering, so women arrive to a table that's already set.

A seat at an in-person workshop for a participant who can't cover the registration herself.

A 10-pack of ISBN numbers from Bowker — the ability for ten women to publish and distribute their own books.

A 100-pack of ISBN numbers — enough to support our writers for an entire year.

Unrestricted gifts cover whatever a participant runs into next, from a missing supply to a class that needs one more seat.