StopViolence is an ongoing project of Dr Paul
Leighton and his students at Eastern Michigan University. At present,
the costs associated with domain name registration, hosting, etc are
underwritten by Paul. Your help would be appreciated in making
StopViolence self-supporting and able to develop more in the
future.
Any contributions you make though this page will
first be used to offset the costs of registering the domain name
stopviolence.com and paying Hostway.com for hosting this page. Together,
these fees amount to about $15 month.
Hello ~
I just wanted to tell you....well I'm not exactly sure. Let me tell you a
quick story (I hope this won't bore you)...
Just the other day, I was home after school, working in homework. I was also
watching TV, and flipped to the MTV channel. The channel was running a
commercial - free movie that detailed the slaying of Matthew Shepard, a
college boy who was gay. After a bit, I stopped my homework and was totally
into the movie. I caught it in it's middle, so soon it was over. After it had
ended, I sat in my computer chair and cried for an hour. I'm not sure why I
cried. Maybe it's because I know that there are people in my town, in my
state, in our country that have such hatred toward people who are different
from themselves.
Tonight I decided to see what I, as a 15 year old girl, could do to help. I
searched over the internet, and found your website. I feel like I need to
tell you what a wonderful, wonderful site it is. I hope and pray and wish
that there are people like yourself out in the world. Thank you for the
help and support you are offering to people.
*H-----* 15, Maine
Contributions over and above the recurring fees
will be used for various upgrades and expansions. The scrolling
navigation menu, for example was a $20 piece of software, and I'd like
to purchase something that checks for dead links. Also, I would like to
make this site more interactive, so visitors could suggest links, rate
links, take polls, or have a bulletin board. I'd like to find out from
the visitors how to make the site more useful to them and implement
those ideas. However, this expansion requires some computer skills that
are beyond me at the moment, and your contributions would help me hire
students with a more technical background. There are also several pages
I would like to develop but would require some help because of my other
commitments.
Although StopViolence does not (yet) have
non-profit status, that is how I intend to run it; rest assured that
everything you send will end up going to this site. (Activities like
sponsoring the Hunger site come out of my personal account, not
donations to StopViolence.) Having spent a fair bit for this domain
name, my interest is not in making money but trying to use this internet
space in a way that is helps to foster intelligent responses to a
pressing social problem.
StopViolence is
hosted on the internet by Hostway.com.
They have 99%+ uptime (I haven't had anyone tell me the site was
unavailable); they are reasonably priced, scalable, and have a handy online
manual. Their SiteControl works well, and the few times I've had to write
them, they have had a helpful response in 24-36 hours.
Amazon.com
StopViolence is an
affiliate of Amazon, so you make a contribution by buying through
this link
Think
of this page if you do holiday or birthday shopping at Amazon
PayPal
Paypal is used by 10
million people for on-line payments (esp for auctions) and rated one of the Top 25 New Companies by
Fortune Small Business. Sending money is
just as easy as sending email - but much, much more secure.
You contribute $5 when you use
the link below to sign up for an account (you must also deposit
funds).
You can also send a
check to Dr Paul Leighton, Dept of Sociology, 712 Pray Harrold,
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
