SUPPORT DZANC

Dzanc Books is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to promoting and publishing literary fiction as well as developing educational programs that will utilize such fiction. We believe that the key to our success is the work of community building that both Dan Wickett and Steve Gillis have seen to date, and the continuation of such.

With his Emerging Writers Network, Dan has developed a network of over 1700 authors and readers who have a substantial interest in literary fiction. These members do what they can to support each other and the literary industry in whole. Steve Gillis founded 826 Michigan, supporting literacy for children ages 8-18, as well as getting involved in many other literary arenas in the SE Michigan area, specifically the Ann Arbor Book Festival, EMU’s Creative Writing Series, sponsoring a position at Greenhills School, and sponsoring a Hopwood writing award at the University of Michigan. It is our firm belief that continuing to develop and expand these communities is the means to our developing solid programs that will promote literary fiction. It is our hope that you will agree with us and look into being an active member in this community through your support.

While Dzanc Books is a non-profit organization, we will be paying our authors just like any for-profit publishing house. We will be supporting literary journals in their efforts to develop readerships and continue to maintain their schedules, at no cost to the literary journals. The educational programs we set up will not be at any cost to the schools involved.

Dzanc Books will be able do the above, per our mission statement, through the generosity of many. Your tax-deductible donation (U.S. taxpayers only) will go toward our doing all of the above ­ the publishing, the support offered to literary journals, and the educational programs.

To make a secure, tax-deductible credit card donation in any amount, click here:

You may also donate by mailing a check made out to Dzanc Books to:

Dzanc Books
1334 Woodbourne Street
Westland, MI 48186


Additionally, Dzanc has recently signed up for three different programs that allow an individual to have money donated to our nonprofit, and do so by changing a couple of habits instead of having to write checks. And one of the programs is also very beneficial to the environment.

First up is Funding Factory and the recycling project. This program has Dzanc collecting used inkjet and laser printing cartridges, as well as used and out of date cell phones, and recycling them for credit. It's a very simple program, Funding Factory provides boxes and UPS labels, and that means no cost to those that take part in the program.

If you are in a position to make the decision, or get a proposal in front of the person at your workplace that does make such decisions - we'd greatly appreciate your involvement. We would send you a box and label and all you'd need to do is, instead of throwing out the used cartridges (or cell phones), which are a tax on our landfills, fill up the box, tape it up, and as it's already labeled, the next time UPS makes a delivery to your place of business, hand them the box. Your company throws less away, having a positive effect on the environment, and Dzanc receives a check that will be used for one of our Dzanc Writer in Residence Programs (DWIRP). It is these educational programs that we are gearing money received from these fundraising programs towards. Just email Dan at dan@dzancbooks.org if you are interested in participating, or if you have any questions.

Second on the list is Goodsearch. As in www.goodsearch.com. It is a Yahoo! powered search engine. Instead of using Google, if you use Goodsearch, and enter Dzanc Books in the charity box, we receive approximately a penny per search performed. They seem to make things pretty simple too - after entering Dzanc Books the first time you perform a search at the site, it looks as if the name remains in the charity box unless you change it, thus removing a step for all future searches.

While this might not sound like a lot, they estimate that if a group of 2000 people searched twice per day, nearly $15,000 would be raised over the course of a year. That will pay for between 2 and 3 of our DWIRPs, getting a writer in front of nearly 100 school children for an entire year.

The third program is for those who sell items via eBay. Apparently, very soon (if they haven't already), eBay will be reporting sales to the IRS. For those that wish to possibly reduce or eliminate tax requirements right away, they have set up a program in which you may donate a percentage of your sales dollars to a nonprofit charity at the time of sale. This is the MissionFish program. We are listed as a nonprofit that is eligible for such a donation.

We greatly appreciate anything you can do that involves this trio of programs, and please feel free to pass along this information to as many people as possible.

Thank you!