OUT ALL DAY: NEW ORLEANS FUNDRAISING DRIVE 2025
PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING US RAISE MONEY TO PAY OUR WRITERS THROUGH THE NEXT 12 MONTHS - RAFFLE AND REWARDS AVAILABLE!
It’s one year since we last had a fundraising drive. It’s been a great twelve months, and reader numbers are up (we recently had our first 1,000-reader day). I try to keep ads on the site to a minimum, but I can only do this via reader donations. Last year we raised $4,000 thanks to your generosity, which just about got us through the year! I would love to top that, so that I can pay more people to write about more of the city.
We're asking readers to donate $5 each for this year’s budget. That’s just $5 for one full year of Out All Day - the arts coverage and reviews and event round ups and interviews and a curated weekly diary and more videos. I put in several unpaid hours every week to put this all together (which I’m happy to do!), as well as my own money towards the end of this year, but I want to pay local writers for their work, and I would be sincerely grateful for your help.
TOTAL RAISED SO FAR (AS OF JUNE 18TH): $1,450.00
This year, we’re running a raffle and rewards system. Every $5 donation = 1 raffle ticket. The grand prize will be a $200 gift voucher (for a business of your choice) for funds raised up to $3,000, going up $100 for every $1,000 raised above that (so if we raise $5,000, we’ll give away a $400 gift voucher). The winner will be drawn at random on a live Instagram story on June 30th. Here are the other, guaranteed rewards:
Up to $10: Our thanks, a shout out on our social media and on the website.
$20: As above plus a tagged IG story on both sites promoting your website/business/show/etc
$40: As above plus a paperback copy of my recently released, acclaimed* comic memoir, Do Mind If I Don’t (*by my friends, who are only being a bit polite, I think?)
$50: As above plus one tagged IG post promoting your website/business/show/etc
$75: As above plus two display ads (one on each publication Out All Day and Up All Night) for one week
$100: As above plus two display ads on the websites for both publications and on both newsletters for one week
$150: As above plus a long-form advertorial feature (e.g. an interview or a general feature) about your business/organization on both websites
$200: As above, plus eight display ads (two ads across four editions of both websites) and a total of two IG posts and two IG stories.
To donate:
My Venmo is @shandypockets (last four digits of my cell are 8421 if they ask).
Zelle (for Chase Bank customers): [email protected]
For a credit card donation, email [email protected] and we can send you a link (5% admin charge applies as they rinse me on fees)
Thank you for supporting independent journalism and ongoing arts coverage in New Orleans. Arts and culture have fewer and fewer outlets, and so I really want to keep this publication going, all the while employing local writers and supporting local productions, artists and musicians.
Thank you for your consideration, I can’t tell you how much it means to me and how much I appreciate it.
As always, much love.
Paul O
We're asking readers to donate $5 each for this year’s budget. That’s just $5 for one full year of Out All Day - the arts coverage and reviews and event round ups and interviews and a curated weekly diary and more videos. I put in several unpaid hours every week to put this all together (which I’m happy to do!), as well as my own money towards the end of this year, but I want to pay local writers for their work, and I would be sincerely grateful for your help.
TOTAL RAISED SO FAR (AS OF JUNE 18TH): $1,450.00
This year, we’re running a raffle and rewards system. Every $5 donation = 1 raffle ticket. The grand prize will be a $200 gift voucher (for a business of your choice) for funds raised up to $3,000, going up $100 for every $1,000 raised above that (so if we raise $5,000, we’ll give away a $400 gift voucher). The winner will be drawn at random on a live Instagram story on June 30th. Here are the other, guaranteed rewards:
Up to $10: Our thanks, a shout out on our social media and on the website.
$20: As above plus a tagged IG story on both sites promoting your website/business/show/etc
$40: As above plus a paperback copy of my recently released, acclaimed* comic memoir, Do Mind If I Don’t (*by my friends, who are only being a bit polite, I think?)
$50: As above plus one tagged IG post promoting your website/business/show/etc
$75: As above plus two display ads (one on each publication Out All Day and Up All Night) for one week
$100: As above plus two display ads on the websites for both publications and on both newsletters for one week
$150: As above plus a long-form advertorial feature (e.g. an interview or a general feature) about your business/organization on both websites
$200: As above, plus eight display ads (two ads across four editions of both websites) and a total of two IG posts and two IG stories.
To donate:
My Venmo is @shandypockets (last four digits of my cell are 8421 if they ask).
Zelle (for Chase Bank customers): [email protected]
For a credit card donation, email [email protected] and we can send you a link (5% admin charge applies as they rinse me on fees)
Thank you for supporting independent journalism and ongoing arts coverage in New Orleans. Arts and culture have fewer and fewer outlets, and so I really want to keep this publication going, all the while employing local writers and supporting local productions, artists and musicians.
Thank you for your consideration, I can’t tell you how much it means to me and how much I appreciate it.
As always, much love.
Paul O