How to Support the Radical Buddhism Project
The RBP is completely non-profit, but we don't have an official NPO status, a corporate hierarchy, or a central institutional bank account. To keep going and grow, the project relies entirely on two things: community support and academic collaboration.
1. Contributor Collaboration
[edit]If you are a scholar, translator, or regional specialist, you can help us directly. Feel free to apply to join our team of verified Wiki Editors, volunteer to translate rare texts, type up physical source materials, or review existing drafts.
Most importantly, you don't have to be a professional academic to help. If you speak an Asian language fluently and are willing to compare digital text against scans of the originals to catch transcription errors, we would love to have you on board.
2. Direct Funding
[edit]Most of the writing, digitizing, and basic translation work, and all of the content managment is done by the Managing Editor. Because this is a small project without institutional backing, the biggest limitation is simply time. The Managing Editor supports himself through external freelance translation and proofreading work, which limits how many hours he can give to the site.
To support this work, we have an official Patreon Page. Direct support from the community is our long-term plan for keeping the project alive. Every donation or subscription offsets the Managing Editor's outside freelance work, freeing up his time to focus on writing articles, digitizing texts, and translating for the RBP instead.
We want to be upfront, though: crowdfunding takes years to build, so it won't make the archive grow overnight. Because of this, we are also looking for grants and institutional funding, especially in the early stages. This kind of funding will help us build a solid baseline of content much faster than community support alone could manage. It will give the archive the jump-start it needs so that long-term community support has a strong foundation to build on.
