# Care Infrastructure Fund

Access is a right. Care is infrastructure.

Stimpunks is built by neurodivergent and disabled people for each other. The Care Infrastructure Fund exists to make that work sustainable.

This fund supports the often-invisible labor that keeps access real: writing, moderation, accessibility work, community care, and systems design grounded in lived experience.

## What We Mean by Care Infrastructure

Care infrastructure is the work that makes participation possible.

It is not charity.

It is not emergency-only.

It is not invisible or unpaid.

Care infrastructure is:

* Paying disabled and neurodivergent people for their labor

* Designing for nervous systems, not norms

* Maintaining access over time

* Creating safety without compliance

* Building systems that hold complexity

This is the foundation everything else stands on.

## What the Fund Supports

The Care Infrastructure Fund directly supports:

* Writing, research, and resource creation

* Accessibility and sensory-aware design

* Moderation and community care

* Technical maintenance and hosting

* Time to think, rest, and design well

This is not overhead.

This is the work.

## Why Monthly Support Matters

One-time gifts help.

Monthly support creates stability.

Stability means:

* Less burnout

* Fewer crisis cycles

* More thoughtful work

* Safer nervous systems

Recurring support lets us plan, pace ourselves, and keep access intact.

## What We Refuse to Do

We do not:

* Use pity or urgency theater

* Frame disabled people as inspirational objects

* Tie access to donor status

* Trade our values for funding

* Perform trauma to prove worth

Care without dignity is not care.

## Transparency & Accountability

We commit to:

* Paying people for their work

* Centering those most impacted

* Naming where funds go in human terms

* Being honest about limits and capacity

Money should protect our capacity, not control it.

## Where the Money Goes

When you support the Care Infrastructure Fund, your money goes to people and work—not abstractions.

It pays for:

* Disabled and neurodivergent writers, editors, and thinkers

* Accessibility labor (plain language, sensory-aware design, usability work)

* Community care and moderation

* Technical maintenance and hosting

* Time to design thoughtfully instead of reactively

We talk about money in human terms because budgets affect bodies.

What this funding creates:

* Fewer burnout cycles

* More sustainable access

* Safer participation

* Work that can evolve instead of just survive

This is how care becomes infrastructure.

## How to Contribute

* Give monthly if you can

* Give once if that’s what works

* Give nothing if money isn’t available

Sharing the work, citing it, and using it responsibly also sustains us.

Consent applies here too.

## Closing

We are building access as shared infrastructure.

If this work supports you—or people you love—help sustain it.

No saviors.

No compliance.

Just shared care.

Support the Care Infrastructure Fund

Care Infrastructure Fund

By Stimpunks Foundation

Care Infrastructure Fund

Access is a right. Care is infrastructure.