Funding

Here are the two ways that you can make a donation to The Brain from Top to Bottom.
  1. Make a secure on-line payment with PayPal

    It’s fast and easy: just log onto PayPal and enter the amount that you want to donate, and PayPal will debit either your credit card or your PayPal account.

    Note that PayPal charges us a service fee equal to 30 cents plus 2.9% of the amount you specify, so for example, if you make a $100 donation, we will receive only $100.00 - 0.30 - (2.9% x $100) = $96.80.

  2. Send us a cheque by mail.

    If you don’t want to use PayPal, sending us a cheque is slower, but it does save us the PayPal fees, so that your entire donation goes to help keep The Brain from Top to Bottom up and running. Whatever amount you decide to donate, please make your cheque payable to Bruno Dubuc and mail it to

    Bruno Dubuc
    1872 Gauthier
    Montréal (Quebec)
    Canada
    H2K 1A3

Please note that The Brain from Top to Bottom is not a registered charity, so your donations are not deductible for purposes of Canadian income tax.

After providing all the funding for The Brain from Top to Bottom for over 10 years, the CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction informed us that because of budget cuts, they were going to be forced to stop sponsoring us as of March 31, 2013.

We have approached a number of organizations, all of which have recognized the value of our work. But we have not managed to find the funding we need. We must therefore ask our readers for donations so that we can continue updating and adding new content to The Brain from Top to Bottom web site and blog.

Please rest assured that we are doing our utmost to continue our mission of providing the general public with the best possible information about the brain and neuroscience in the original spirit of the Internet: the desire to share information free of charge and with no advertising.

Whether your support is moral, financial, or both, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Bruno Dubuc, Patrick Robert, Denis Paquet and Al Daigen

WORK TO BE DONE
(Here is the work we will do with the funding received, starting from the bottom of thermometer and working up.)

 

Minimum site maintenance
1-2 hours/week ($1 875/year)
Answer e-mail every day, correct outdated links and typographical errors, update scientific information, mail out promotional posters and brochures, etc. In other words, keep the site from deteriorating and project the sense that there is still someone taking care of it.

Weekly posts on the French blog
3-4 hours/week ($5 650/year)
Add new content in French every week, in the form of a blog post summarizing recent neuroscientific research. Each post includes links to the study or studies discussed, as well as to selected pages of The Brain from Top to Bottom that will help readers to place this new research in context. On these same pages, links will be added pointing back to the blog post, so that the blog and the site content truly form an organic whole.

Translation of French blog posts into English
2-3 hours/week ($4 250/year)
Translate each blog post from French to English so that readers of the English version enjoy the same new content every week as readers of the French version do.

 

 

Funding Update

May 9th, 2022

In the year after government funding for this website ended (April 2013 through March 2014), our fundraising campaign brought in nearly $8 000 in donations from the public. The next three years, we raised nearly $4 000 per year, the last four years about $2 500 and the last year about 1 600$.

Our sincerest thanks to all of you who have made these donations that have helped us keep this site alive.

Bruno Dubuc