I was fortunate in that I had health insurance but it was a bad couple years with and continual string of strokes and new problems left from the aftermath. We did get some donations which helped keep JPF going. The trouble was I was not out touring the US and the UK, Canada and Europe where we'd do free events, but get donation and sell hats and t-shirts to raise money so JPF would break even, which has been the goal. Further, even with insurance, my bills piled up all while I wasn't able to do sponsored events like the music awards and we had to skip the 2010/2011/2012 music awards. We're just now restarting a new round of them, which we do for free, but which usually allows us to add sponsors.

I had a very generous music industry successful person who paid a big chunk of my medical bills which made a huge difference.

We accept donation to pay for the basic costs of running the site and other activities we do. We have community sponsors who also help with costs. Our message board donation, which I use to pay the costs of the website it uses, have slowed down so if you enjoy the site and want to contribute, we welcome the support. I do not take nor make a dime from JPF and never have. I work as a volunteer as does everyone else involved. We run as few ads as possible and we turn down a lot of offers if we don't feel like we're a good fit with some companies. I am pretty open about my health situation as I am about everything in general. I have been slowly getting back on the horse so to speak and with the help of Kevin and Mike primarily we try to keep the boards free of spam and scammers and settle the regular squabbles that pop up as you can imagine. It is rare that there aren't several fires burning at any given time.

So no, I am not asking for support (I never did really, Jean was kind enough to post this) for health issues, but I always greatly appreciate support of the site and organization as a whole. The more resources we have, the more stuff we can do to help people in return.

Brian

Brian Austin Whitney
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Just Plain Folks
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