The initial source of funding for American Narratives will be our own resources, used to purchase needed gear, to setup the non-profit and to create our online presence. Working multiple jobs over the years has provided a small amount of money that we wanted to use to better our world and felt that this was the best way to do that.

We have applied for funding from several grants including National Geographic, National Parks Service, National Parks Conservation Association, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  We were denied on all of them, but are seeking others at this point.

A major source of funding will be from individual donations. If you support our efforts and wish to assist us in providing worthwhile information to be shared with our readers and followers, please consider making a donation.

All of the funds we receive from grants will go to the costs associated with travel and technology; fuel and tolls for our travel, site fees for our stays, subscriptions for our website, photo gallery and emails.  If we do not receive any grants, we are prepared to use our own resources to cost of our travel to make American Narratives a reality and to keep ourselves fed.

Your donations will go to support our efforts in the Fall of 2025 to provide a free copy of our two books (adult and children) and our photo collection to every one of the 10,000 public library in the country. And if we raise enough, a free copy to every high school (21,000) and elementary school (65,000) library.

You can donate to our efforts through our donation site (the button at the bottom of each page) or purchase a digital photo or two from our SmugMug albums, linked through each matching story on the Our Stories page.

Thank you for reading about and supporting our efforts to tell these important stories of ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things.  American Narratives is an unincorporated non-profit with a 509(a)2 designation (a subcategory of 501(c)3) and thus all of your donations are tax deductible.