DAREBEE is a non-profit, community-funded resource. No corporate backing, no advertisers, no sponsors. The people who use it are the people who keep it alive - and that is exactly how we want it.
How It Works
Running DAREBEE is a real operation with real costs. We have a small core team of paid staff who work on the resource full time, supported by volunteers who contribute content, testing, and expertise. On top of that there are the bills that come every month without fail - hosting, servers, maintenance, software, and everything else that keeps a resource this size online and updated daily.
None of that pays for itself. It runs on donations from the community.
Why No Ads, Sponsors, or Paywalls
The moment DAREBEE takes money from an advertiser or a sponsor, it stops being fully independent. Content decisions get shaped by who's paying. That has never happened here and it won't. The only people we answer to are the people using the site.
Paywalls are a different problem entirely. A significant part of the people who rely on DAREBEE are people who genuinely cannot afford alternatives. Locking the content defeats the entire point of building it.
How You Can Support DAREBEE
The most direct way to help is a donation. Even five dollars makes a real difference - more, honestly, than most other ways of supporting us. If you'd also like a DAREBEE book, buying one does contribute a small amount to the project and you get something useful out of it. But if you're choosing between the two, a donation is where your money does the most good.
And if neither works for you right now - sharing DAREBEE with someone who needs it costs nothing and matters more than you might think.
Every Contribution Counts
There is no corporate safety net here. When the funding is low, the site is in genuine danger. When the community shows up, it stays alive - for you, for the person who found it yesterday, for the kid who will find it tomorrow.
Every donation, no matter the size, is a direct vote for keeping this free for everyone. Not just the people who can afford alternatives. Everyone.
If DAREBEE has ever helped you - on a hard day, a good day, or any day you just needed to move - this is how you help it back.
