It’s Scarleteen’s 25th! That's a helluva thing for a scrappy little independent, grassroots, queer, feminist, sex education resource: a quarter-century of providing progressive, inclusive sexuality and relationships education, information and support, and resources to tens of millions of young people all over the world. 

If you want to help us celebrate, and help sustain Scarleteen into the coming years, we're looking for now looking for 250 people to sign up as recurring donors and $15k in donations as soon as possible.

Here's how you can help us do that:

• Hit that DONATE button and become a donor yourself.
• Click that FUNDRAISE button to create your own fundraising page to share with people across your networks.
• Share this on your social media.
• All of the above!

Why 15k?

This is the amount we desperately need to be able to pay all our bills in 2024, without which we will need to make serious cuts to our staffing and our services before the year is out.

Why 250?

We began by asking for 750 new recurring donors at an average monthly amount of $10 at the back in December. Unfortunately we only found a third of what we were looking for.

We're now hoping to finally fill that gap by finding 250 people to donate at $20 per month.

This will allow us to fill a current funding deficit that we must resolve before 2025 to keep doing all the things we do and give us some momentum towards meeting more than just our minimum needs.  

In the 25+ years we’ve existed for, we’re served close to 90,000,000 (that’s ninety million!) people. And our work is more essential now than ever. We’ve been experiencing a growing wave of legislation designed to cut young people off from vital and wanted information, support and community, especially young queer and trans people. In the last several years, we’ve also seen many sources of independent, feminist and queer, media shutter or give up their independence, some at the cost of their ingenuity or integrity. 

Scarleteen is and has always been fully independent, feminist, queer media. We don’t de-fang our content in order to appeal to advertisers or other sponsors. The kind of sex ed we offer – unapologetically queer, pro-abortion, feminist, justice-minded and pleasure-forward –  means that what paltry government funding there is for comprehensive sex education wouldn’t be within our reach without us…well, not being us. And it’s precisely who we are and how we do sex ed that served all the people we have over the years so well.

We center young people in our work, and believe they’re entitled to the kind of education and support they can access through our site and services for free. But even if we didn't, most of them don't have the ability to pitch in financially anyway. Yet if just 10% of adults in the lives of the young people who use Scarleteen in just one day became recurring donors, we'd be on track to sustain our site and its services for years to come.

We need your help so we can keep helping young people. 

If we were there for you when you were younger; if you use us in your classroom, your health curriculum, your counseling or healthcare office; if you regularly refer young people to us; if you return to our content time and again to share on your social media, to pass onto friends, or as a resource for your own research or writing; if our work helps you, even though you’re not a teenager or young adult anymore? Please consider a recurring donation today. 

xox Scarleteen