The Lost Children Charity Anthologies: Lost Children #1 Donation Record

9/8/11:
$150 donated to PROTECT from initial challenge
£220 donated to Children 1st (by Fiona Johnson)
$150 donated to Living Water for Girls

12/25/11
$47.38 Amazon royalty received
$23.69 donated to PROTECT
$23.69 donated to Children 1st through Fiona Johnson via Paypal

1/4/12
$75.29 Createspace royalty received
$37.65 donated to PROTECT

$37.64 donated to Children 1st through Fiona Johnson via Paypal

1/28/12
$84.31 Createspace royalty received
$37.79 Amazon UK royalty received
$75.25 Amazon US royalty received
197.35 total

$100 Donated to PROTECT
£62.00 Donated to Children 1st UK

($200 total donated)

2/2/12
Fiona Johnson sold 20 copies of the trade paper back - £250 donated to Children 1st

2/20/12
$39.75 Royalty payment from Smashwords
$13.58 Royalty payment from Barnes & Noble
$55 donated to PROTECT

2/28/12
$25.77 royalty payment from Amazon for December US Kindle sales
$26 donated to PROTECT

3/4/12
Fiona Johnson sold 5 copies of the trade paperback - £50 donated to Children 1st

3/29/12
$20.00 Royalty payment from Amazon UK
$16.00 Royalty payment from Amazon US
$36 donated to PROTECT

5/1/12
$24.90 Royalty payment from Createspace
$13.41 Royalty payment from Amazon US
$40 donated to PROTECT

5/10/12
$16.38 Royalty payment from Amazon UK

6/27/12
$19.59 Royalty payment from Amazon US
$14.31 Royalty payment from Amazon UK
$50 donated to PROTECT 7/3/12

8/15/12
$20.56 donated to Children 1st from Paul Brazill, from the Brit Grit anthology

8/24/12
$18.54 Royalty from Amazon UK
$15.54 Royalty from Createspace
$2.60 from direct sale
$37 donated to PROTECT 8/24/12

9/20/12
$16.24 Received from Amazon UK
$13.00 from direct e-book sale
$29.24 donated to PROTECT 10/8/12

11/30/12
$26.00 donated to PROTECT

Totals: (updated 11/30/12)
$1025.66 donated to Children 1st
$660.68 donated to PROTECT
$150.00 donated to Living Water for Girls

$1836.34 raised!

What's the story behind the project?

Protectors:
The Lost Children Charity Anthology was such a success, that Thomas Pluck decided to collect stories from a variety of authors to benefit PROTECT, a lobby whose victories against child abuse include the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008, the Hero to Hero program, and Alicia's Law. He collected 41 stories from all new authors. Thanks to the inspiration of goodhearted people like Fiona Johnson, and the people of PROTECT who fight the abuse and exploitation of our children every day, the book is a reality, and 100% of proceeds benefit PROTECT.

For the first anthology:
The challenge began on Flash Fiction Friday, when author Fiona Johnson was guest writer for the fiction prompt, and asked us to write about the lost children. She asked photographer Danielle Tunstall for permission to use the arresting photo shown in the right sidebar, and said:

Some children are lost before they have even started living. Some children are a throw-away commodity like a burger box that’s left to blow down the street in the wind and rain.

I offered to donate $5 for each story submitted to PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children, and Fiona would donate $5 to Children 1st, a children's charity in Scotland. Together we raised $300 for each of the charities thanks to the generous and creative writing communities of Flash Fiction Friday, Fictionaut, and the crime fiction community on Twitter.

It was such a success that we thought we could go further. Ron Earl Phillips, Fiona and I chose 30 of the best stories to put in a charity anthology, all proceeds of which will go to PROTECT and Children 1st.

100% of royalties donated to two causes:

OUR DONATION RECORD

PROTECT and The National Association to Protect Children (USA)

The National Association to Protect Children is a national, pro-child, anti-crime membership association founded on the belief that our first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens, and members of the human species is the protection of children from harm.

PROTECT is a bipartisan pro-child, anti-crime lobby whose sole focus is making the protection of children a top political and policy priority at the national, state and local level.

You can read about PROTECT's Victories here.

100% of the proceeds of Protectors, and 50% of the proceeds of Lost Children: A Charity Anthology, are donated to PROTECT.

This is an independently organized event, not officially sponsored by [NAPC/PROTECT]

Children 1st (UK)

Children 1st has 125 years experience of working with children and families, previously as the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSSPCC). Today, they support families under stress, protect children from harm and neglect, help them to recover from abuse and promote children's rights and interests. You can read more about their work with children here.

50% of proceeds of the Lost Children Charity Anthology go to Children 1st.

This is an independently organized event, not officially sponsored by Children 1st.