I need your help and support.

There are so many good things happening in my work that I sometimes forget that I need to ask for your support of my blog and work with refugee children and the elderly. My bank account always reminds me.

This work is more essential than ever. Blogs, photographs, podcasts are all expensive and need maintenance and repairs. I am never comfortable asking people for money, but there’s no other way to do this work, and we are on a great roll.

This year has been the most intense and productive for me since we started the Army Of Good in 2016.  We’ve gotten six gifted refugee children into excellent private schools so they can get the attention and support they need. Where necessary, we raised additional funds for tuition and expenses.

Changing these six lives and others has been an extraordinary experience for me, and a testament to your generous spirits and big hearts. So is the amazing work we have done at Bishop Maginn, a most special school.

The school is reborn and ascending: school and art supplies, basketballs, laptop computers, microscopes, a new choir and museum room, a new computer lab.

We are also helping with tuition for needy refugee families, and selling the lovely art these students are making. I think we needed each other.

We are helping the residents of the Mansion Assisted Care Facility in ways that are transformative and meaningful.  Everyone who needs an air conditioner has one, everyone who needs clothes and underwear and jackets and sockets have them.

We are figuring out how to do good in practical, realistic and efficient ways.

The work is hard and time-consuming, but it feels like a calling, what I was meant to do. But I also need support for me and for the blog and the photo work, all essential.

I also need to take care of myself, something I am reminded of at the end of every month.

As this work has grown and progressed, it has become something of a full-time job, along with my blog and photography and my farm. I have one more book coming out next year, and my plan is to leave publishing behind and concentrate on the work I’m doing.

It has never seemed more necessary.

I am driving lots of miles, raising money for different things, meeting new Mansion residents and refugee children, delivering shoes and sweaters, doing therapy work with Red and Fate,  talking with teachers and their families and teachers, dealing with thrift stores, chains, and online shopping.

In October, I’m teaching an eight-week writing workshop at Bishop Maginn, we hope to self publish a book about this extraordinary place.

Each week, I read to the Mansion residents and conduct a meditation and support class.

I love every minute of this work, but I do need your support and often forget to ask for it. The blog is expensive, so is photography and the details of life. There are bills to pay.

As I’ve written, this work, which takes much of every day of the week,  pays a lot less than publishing did when I had book contracts and royalties coming in regularly. Expenses generally go up, not down.

No complaints, this is my calling and my passion, no one is forcing me to do it, and I intend to keep doing it for as long as I can. I am just hitting my stride, and this work is more important than ever.

There are several different ways to support my work.

One is via Paypal, my ID is [email protected], contributions in any amount are welcome. You can use any major credit card.

The second is a credit card or Paypal donations to the blog, no financial information of yours is ever stored 0n my site or servers. You can send one-time donations, or you can subscribe: $5 or $10 a month, or $75 a year.

It is simple to manage your donations or subscriptions, the latter can be canceled at any time. You control your money, not me.

There are subscription and support buttons at the end of every blog post, including this one.

The blog is, as always, free to those who can’t donate or choose not to. It will always be free, so many of you stood by me, I will stand by you.

This work is my life and my politics. I live my beliefs, I don’t argue them on social media. So thanks for your support, I want very much to keep this working going. I believe we are called to help the needy and the vulnerable, whether you are on the left or on the right.

If you wish to contribute only for the Mansion or refugee work, you can also do that by contributing via Paypal, [email protected] or by check, Jon Katz, Mansion/Refugee Fund, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

Thank you!