I will donate 2 consecutive years of ebook sales to supporting Doctors Without Borders

In this post, I give an overview of the charity that my readers and I will be supporting, and I will give details on how I will use this money transparently.

            Doctors Without Borders (AKA Medecins Sans Frontiers, or MSF):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73zMcdGfXGE

            Doctors Without Borders is a non-profit organization that sends medical teams into the regions of the world that have the greatest medical needs (such as war zones, or impoverished nations). A large majority of all the money they receive goes directly to helping those in need of medical care.

   MSF does not have any political affiliation, and their mission is to help those in need, regardless of their beliefs, political views, or religion. The physicians and nurses who work for this organization bravely go into harms way. If you do a quick google search, you can read about MSF workers who were shot, kidnapped, and killed during service to this cause. MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, and has received four out of four stars from Charity Navigator.

How I will use all of the profits I receive effectively and transparently:

            After each month, I will make a blog post that discloses how much money my amazon account has generated. As proof of the earnings, I will also post, in addition to that amount, a photograph of the excel spreadsheet that amazon provides and the most up-to-date amazon report of my earnings that is possible. The excel spreadsheets are available 12 months after the time of the transaction. Amazon generates a running report of the current months sales, which is only available in the current month. I will post both moving forward. If anyone has a more transparent way that I could prove I am being honest with the earnings, please let me know and I will incorporate it.

            As the title says, I will donate 2 years (or 24 months) of amazon earnings to MSF (Doctors Without Borders). The first 11 months of income that I will give comes from the first day of April, 2012 through the last day of February 2013. In this time, I made $297.78 in ebook sales. I will post a picture of the excel spreadsheet that amazon has provided for each of those months (I would post the month-to-date page, but it is no longer available to me), and a picture of the receipt that Doctors Without Borders sent to me after the donations was made.

            The next 13 months of this pledge is in front of us. Every cent that I receive from reader support will go directly to forwarding the cause of Doctors Without Borders. I see this as a great opportunity for readers to support a great cause, and be exposed to new novel.

The photos for the first 11 months are posted below: