Stimpunks Foundation

Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People

JOIN STIMPUNKS BECOME A SPONSOR We invite you to be a part of our team. By becoming a sponsor of Stimpunks Foundation, you help us: • catalyse Stimpunks projects, • coordinate neurodivergent and disabled peer support, • document neurodivergent and disabled culture, • conduct neurodivergent and disabled research, • develop and deliver education based on lived experiences, • host events that celebrate neurodivergent and disabled culture. How you can support: Stimpunks Members $10 Intersectional Solidarity Sponsors $30 Research Sponsors $45 Education Sponsors $90 Livelihood Sponsors $140 Endurance Sponsors $200 JOIN NOW

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If you appreciate our articles and the tireless community building efforts of our volunteers, your monthly sustaining membership goes a long way to keep us going and grow our peer support capacity.

All membership levels receive a shirt and a sticker from our merch store as well as shout outs on our website and socials.

By becoming a sponsor of Stimpunks Foundation, you help us: 

If you can’t do a recurring donation, a one-time donation is appreciated.

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One in seven persons in the world has a disability. Yet, grants for persons with disabilities constitute just 2% of all human rights funding.

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Recurring donations are especially sustaining.
Why donate to us? The nonprofit professionals who consult us tell us we’re unique. They tell us we’re tearing down walls in philanthropy…

1. Your money goes directly to people, not bureaucracy

Stimpunks practices mutual aid, not charity theater. Donations are moved quickly and with low barriers to neurodivergent and disabled people who need relief now—for rent, food, care, survival. This prevents crises before they become emergencies, which is both more humane and more effective than downstream interventions.

Impact: Immediate stabilization, reduced stress, fewer crisis escalations.

2. Stimpunks fixes conditions, not people

Most systems are built around compliance: behave correctly, mask well, suffer quietly, and maybe you’ll get help. Stimpunks rejects that model entirely. It invests in access, psychological safety, and autonomy, which research and lived experience both show lead to better long-term outcomes.

Your donation supports:

  • Communication access
  • Sensory and space access
  • Education and healthcare access
  • Environments where people don’t have to erase themselves to survive

3. It’s led by the people most affected

Stimpunks is neurodivergent- and disabled-led. That means:

  • No guessing what people need
  • No extractive storytelling
  • No top-down “solutions” that create harm

Lived experience isn’t a side note here—it’s the operating system.

Result: Higher relevance, higher trust, higher impact per dollar.

4. It prevents harm instead of managing fallout

Compliance-based therapies, inaccessible systems, and deficit narratives cost people their health, education, jobs, and lives. Stimpunks intervenes upstream by:

  • Publishing open, neuroaffirming learning pathways
  • Challenging harmful practices
  • Giving families, educators, and professionals better tools

Prevention is cheaper, kinder, and more effective than repair.

5. Your donation creates compounding impact

Stimpunks doesn’t just help individuals—it builds shared infrastructure:

  • Free learning resources used globally
  • Language and frameworks that change how people think and act
  • Community knowledge that outlives any single grant

One donation helps one person and strengthens the ecosystem that supports thousands more.

6. This is accountability without gatekeeping

Stimpunks operates with transparency, low overhead, and a clear ethical spine. There’s no pressure to sanitize stories or soften the truth to appease funders. Donations support honest work rooted in dignity, not optics.

7. Because people shouldn’t have to mask to deserve care

At the deepest level, donating to Stimpunks is a values decision.

It says:

  • People are not broken
  • Difference is not a defect
  • Care should never be conditional on conformity

Authenticity is our purest freedom—and freedom requires resources.

Bottom line

If you want your money to:

  • Reach people fast
  • Reduce harm instead of rebranding it
  • Support work led by those who live it
  • Build something real, not polite

Donate to Stimpunks.org.

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Your donations help us serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.