The volunteers of The Plural Association Grassroots nonprofit together provide over 100,000 community interactions each year, have educated over 225,000 people and provide events for thousands of Plurals! If you can make a donation to support our work, we’d be extremely grateful!
Why Should You Donate?
The Plural Association is all about helping plurals find community. We work tirelessly to ensure that Plurals don’t have to be isolated, alone, or kept apart from one another. Being Plural is an experience, and it isn’t one that anyone should have to go through without help, empowerment, and togetherness.
You should donate to The Plural Association if you want to see a live and active support network for Plurals around the world to find and connect to at any time. The Plural Warmline aims to provide support and connectivity for those it serves, helping one another with just a simple call.
Every donation to The Plural Association is a donation towards making the world a safer, kinder, and more understanding place for Plurals of every origin and type. Our goal is to provide support so that each and every headmate can find themselves in a caring community that’s eager to see one another grow and flourish.
By donating to The Plural Association, you’ll be contributing directly to a cause that helps Plurals find each other and remain connected to one another in a safe environment. We aim to ensure that Plurals of every sort can avoid feeling alone, and can instead feel connected and bonded.
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Where Your Donations Will Be Going
Your donations will be well spent, as they’ll be going towards maintaining and running a grassroots peer and volunteer-led nonprofit dedicated to helping to empower Plurals and help one another find community and support.
Donations will, after overhead costs for maintaining the structure of the nonprofit, go towards our mission of empowering plurals. They’ll be spent on funding our community structure and our Plural Warmline for long-term usage. We keep a specific breakdown of where the costs go in our newsletter, which details the specifics of how our donations are used per period. Transparency is one of our top priorities, and we want Plurals to be confident in where their money is going.
We are volunteer-led in order to keep overhead costs as low as they possibly can. Everyone on our team works from home, helping to keep costs down and empowerment up.
We do not receive any financial grants or government funding – we are instead completely dependent on the support of Plurals and their allies.
We do not spend your money on advertisements – The Plural Association has received an advertisement grant.
Our mission is about empowering and helping Plurals, and because of that we make sure that we do not financially gatekeep – instead, we aim to make our services accessible to everyone regardless of their financial standing. We hope to make The Plural Warmline open and available to everyone who needs it, and to provide our community resources for everyone at as an affordable price as we possibly can, with free access being granted to all of those who are in need of it.
You don’t even have to just donate through us – people can now host their own personal fundraiser for The Plural Association! Just click the button that says ”I want to fundraise for this” at the bottom of this LINK to host your own fundraiser for and with us.
What We Provide
We provide a wide variety of services dedicated to helping Plurals find community and support. Among our services, we provide:
- Private Community – Featuring weekly group text chats and monthly audio or video meet-ups, our private community is aimed exclusively at Plurals with the purpose of connecting one another. We provide the means for Plurals to make friends, build community, and hold lasting connections that will last a lifetime.
- The Plural Warmline – The Plural Warmline aims to be a safeguard to help keep Plurals away from entering a period of crisis. While it is not a substitute for a doctor, therapist, or social worker, it is a means of adding an extra layer of protection to prevent Plurals from entering a crisis. We provide free services where you can talk to other Plurals focused on helping you feel seen, connected, and safe.
- Community Resources – Figuring out your Plurality alone can be scary, and that’s why we provide community resources so that way you can understand just how Plurality works, what to expect from it, and how to manage it with your daily life. Our goal is to help you feel safe and respected as a Plural, and our resources aim to help you do just that. No matter what questions you have about Plurality, you’ll be sure to find an answer to them.
- Conferences and Meetups – Our virtual international conferences provide Plurals with a unique community experience where they can learn from their peers about the various aspects of Plural life, Plural skills, Plural history and much more.
- Connection to Other Plurals – While Plurality is not rare, finding others who share your experiences can be hard. That’s why we aim to provide a means to help you connect to other Plurals through our community support networks. We hope to help you feel secure as part of a broad and widespread community.
How We Empower Plurals
First, a Plural reaches out to us in need of help. This can be over email, social media, or some other form of communication. We then connect with them and share our lived experiences as Plurals, discussing whatever issue they may have.
We then connect them with our resources – showcasing whatever is relevant to their needs. If they have a question about how new headmates form, we provide resources on that. If they have a question about inter-headmate communication, we provide resources on that. Whatever questions that a Plural might have, our goal is to answer them.
After connecting them with our resources, our next goal is to invite them to join our private community. Many Plurals have never connected with another Plural before. Our private community works to bring them together with others who share their experiences.
The Statistics of Our Work So Far
Since The Plural Association was founded in February of 2020 – two weeks before the COVID-19 lockdowns – we have…
- Educated 225,000 people through our videos.
- Over 100,000 community interactions each year.
- More than 135,000 article reads.
- Well over 5,000 questions answered.
- 1,500 visitors across our 6 conference events.
- Given 900 scholarships to our events and community.
- Caused 86% of Plurals to recommend us to their friends.
- Empowered 78% of Plurals who connected with us.
- Coordinated over 100 weekly text chats.
- Brought together Plurals for virtual meetups over 25 times.
Over 75% of the Plurals we empower and support, live with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This debilitating disorder consists of having multiple parts of the personality, out of the ordinary forgetting (amnesia) and clinical distress.
The DSM-5 states that an alarming rate, of over 70% of outpatient people, who have repeated suicide attempts. Many of thousands of people we speak to on a daily basis, are either unable to find a therapist equipped, able and willing to take on (another) DID client.
Many report they need more support in between therapy sessions. So far this is not available, as most warm and hotlines are not familiar with how to support and empower Plurals.
Contrary to popular belief, DID is not rare at all: The largest prevalence study into Dissociative Identity Disorder, from April 2019 showed that 3.7% of 30,000 college students scored for DID.
We also know that it takes 6 to 12 years to get a correct diagnosis for DID and that people collect up to 8 different, sometimes inaccurate diagnoses in the meantime.
Because of this, we estimate that no more than 0.5% of people with DID are actually correctly diagnosed! This is a huge problem. Not only is it extremely difficult to live a life without having system awareness, it is also dangerous.
It is of uttermost importance that Plurals find a place where they and their system are heard, understood and can safely ask their questions. A place where they can find support in between therapy or before therapy starts, as waiting lists are in many places years long. Plurals deserve peer support and together we make it a reality.
The Plural Association is the first and so far only, grassroots and peer-led, registered nonprofit (KVK 77247183) for people worldwide, living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, OSSD and all other forms of Multiplicity under the Plural umbrella.
TPA already supports over 3000 Plurals on a daily basis in over 50 countries and we now want to build a dedicated platform where we can provide live support via phone, chat and email. We have over 50 Plural volunteers ready to start training, which will happen once the platform is actually being built.
TPA is a registered SSBI Stichting, which is the dutch word for nonprofit and does not pay taxes over your donations.
The Plural Association depends fully on community and ally support.
We are grassroots, volunteer and peer-led, registered nonprofit foundation with a social interest/goal.
In our case the empowerment of Plurals.
Please become a (financial) Plural ally today and donate towards the empowerment of Plurals.
Plurals deserve peer support, your financial gifts are what will make that a reality.
If you are financially able, please donate.
We use donations to help us run the nonprofit, pay for the software we use as a team, train our new volunteers, create new resources, provide scholarships to our community and events, and for The Plural Warmline where Plurals can share their stories and worries with trained peer support Plurals.
We give a monthly overview in our newsletter on what we spend donations on in the previous month to be transparent. We also set a new fundraising goal each month, which is also announced in the newsletter.
After overhead cost, we aim to spend 90% of donations on our main goal, which is the empowerment of Plurals. Everyone on our team is a volunteer, we do not receive any grants, government or other types of funding at the present time and are completely dependent on community and ally support.
The Plural Association is opening The Plural Warmline.
A free warmline where Systems & their headmates can share their stories & worries with a trained, lived experienced peer support Plural volunteer via email, live chat, sms texts & calls.
A warmline is a line you reach out to before you reach a potential point of crisis. Our warmline for Plurals provides early intervention with emotional support that can prevent a crisis.
To be able to provide this service for free to all Plurals who need it, year round, we depend on continued donations.
Your financial gift helps Plurals and their headmates find live support when they need it the most. At the warmline platform where Plurals and their headmates can share their stories and worries with trained lived experience peer support Plurals.
Your donations are what makes our work possible, your money directly empowers Plurals.
After overhead cost, we aim to spend 90% of donations on our main goal, which is the empowerment of Plurals.
- Share our new donation page on your social media, on your website, via email or by sharing with friends and family.
- Share our social media posts. – from: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
- Create a Facebook fundraiser. – Simply fill in the form and start fundraising.
- Fundraise on Twitch. – Just search for The Plural Association on ‘Streamlabs charity’ click ‘fundraise’ and follow the steps.
- Fundraise on YouTube. – Invite your viewers to donate in your video and add our donation link into a YouTube end screens, cards and video descriptions.
- Peer to Peer Fundraiser Campaign The easiest way to host your very own peer to peer fundraising campaign for The Plural Association Nonprofit.
What Plurals say about our work:
Please write a review to let others know what you & your System think of our work!
WE collectively need support and help and this is an opportunity to ask questions and talk with others like ourselves and that is extremely important.
This is the first time in nearly 30 yrs we have found safe people and places to talk all things plurality. TPA is the only place talking about inclusiveness and DOING something about it. Also the only ones to try and make Warmline.
There aren’t enough resources for DID, this is so needed because this is an isolating disorder.
Donations to TPA are incredibly important to plurals as it gives back to a community that withstands so much stigma. Donations ensure that plurals have a safe, empowering and informational space to grow as well as be themselves.
We need to put money into these types of organizations because currently the funding and support out there for DID suffers is severely lacking.
TPA provides education, advocacy, and connection, combating isolation and stigma, thus supporting plurals in living happier, healthier lives.
Donate because DID affects 1 – 3 percent of the population but doesn’t get the recognition, acceptance, support or research that it deserves. Probably the most misunderstood, dismissed and hidden condition in society today.
Donations to TPA are so important because one of the scariest things is being on your own going through this; TPA helps stop us from being alone.
Donations toward TPA are very important because this will help so many plurals who maybe don’t have access to therapy, or who maybe want to meet others going through the same thing. It’ll make plurals feel less alone.
Having DID/alters can be an extremely isolating experience. The lack of widely available resources makes it even harder to manage symptoms. TPA is one of the only organizations completely focused on trying to change this. Supporting TPA could change lives. Including mine.
Fundraise For The Plural Association Nonprofit
You could already host your own fundraiser for The Plural Association Nonprofit, through our Facebook Page, Streamlabs charity, and more! But now you can host your own peer to peer fundraising campaign via our main donation page. Just click the button to get started.
