Why support our cause?

Since its founding, Ben’s Friends has always depended on donations from friends and family. Our strategy is to operate on a shoestring budget, covering expenses such as website hosting, maintenance and improvement, software subscriptions, and supplies. We stay away from sources that could negatively affect the communities. For instance, pharma companies and research facilities have long been requesting to advertise in our communities but we resist this to ensure members’ freedom to post their opinions about any drug or treatment facility. (We do, however, only encourage people to publicly post positive reviews.) We continually aim to launch new communities so that more people affected by rare and chronic illnesses can benefit from a safe and supportive community. This can be done through your help. We always look for grants and donations, however, they come sporadically especially during these difficult times. It is for this reason that we need to turn to some of you for voluntary donations as a patron of Ben's Friends.

Where will your donations go?

Ben’s Friends needs your support so that we can continue to help patients and their families. If you donate, you would be supporting the operations and improvement of the 50 online communities of Ben’s Friends that help individuals suffering from rare diseases and chronic illnesses such as:

Eagle Syndrome
Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
Brain Aneurysm
Chiari Malformations
Polyneuropathy
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Psoriatic Arthritis

We would like to emphasize that donations are completely voluntary. Our communities will remain free to use.

Donors may cancel their pledge anytime.

Remember to use your community screen name to ensure anonymity.