Donations by Write the World notebooks

We donate funds raised through notebook sales via The Life You Can Save on a quarterly basis. Every quarter’s donation is gifted to one of the effective charities recommended by The Life You Can Save. Where possible I access matched giving programs from the companies I work for. Our model is every $10 notebook sold = the full $10 to charity. This is a minimum. Occasionally (Australian bushfires! Indian COVID crisis!) we have matched the $10 and a $10 notebook then = $20 to charity.

To date we have raised over $139,180 for charity. It’s important to me to be fully transparent about how much we’ve donated and who the money has benefited:

April 2024 - now
$3,260- Oxfam

January - March 2024
$4,860 - The Life You Can Save’s ‘Help Women and Girls Fund'
$500 - Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal

October - December 2023
$8,896- Evidence Action
$1,000 - Asylum Seekers Resources Centre (ASRC)

July - September 2023
$3,220 - Development Media International (DMI)

April - June 2023
$2,570 - Educate Girls

January - March 2023
$6,340 - Fistula Foundation

October - December 2022
$13,380 - Fred Hollows
$1,000 - donated directly to the Community Enterprise Foundation Victorian Flood Appeal ($10 each for the first 100 River Red Gum notebooks sold)

July - September 2022
$5,180 - directly donated to The Life You Can Save

April - June 2022
$2,490 - One Acre Fund

January - March 2022
$5,010 - Oxfam
$10,000 - matched giving by company to be donated to Fistula Foundation in March

October - December 2021
$10,680 - Equalize Health

July - September 2021
$8,550 - Hellen Keller International (HKI)

April - June 2021
$3,850 - Give Directly
$2,250 - Plus matching ‘Give India’ - for the month of May (an additional $10 to grass roots based charities in India to help with the COVID-19 pandemic)

January - March 2021
$5,230 - Fistula Foundation
$9,800 - matched giving by company, donated to Fistula Foundation

September - December 2020 (four months to bring our quarters into line with the calendar year)
$11,730 - Village Enterprise

June - August 2020
$1,760 - Project Healthy Children

March - May 2020
$4,590 - Fistula Foundation

December 2019 - February 2020
$2,650 - Against Malaria Foundation
Bonus $1,780 - Australian bushfire appeal ($10 per notebook personally matched to raise $890, which was matched by company)

September - November 2019
$7,150 - The Life You Can Save