Madras Press is a non-profit venture, operating entirely on a volunteer basis.

Like what we’re doing? Contribute a few dollars and help sustain philanthropic publishing. By supporting us, you’ll be supporting a number of causes, literary and otherwise.

You can also find links to donate directly to our beneficiary organizations below:

The mission of InsideOUT Writers is to free the creative voice locked within incarcerated and at-risk youth. They provide positive and empowering experiences using creative writing as a means to foster honest introspection, socially responsible behavior, and to build a foundation for living productive lives. You can learn more about their programs, read excerpts of their students’ work, and find ways to participate at their website.

Riverkeeper is an independent, member-supported environmental organization founded on the premise that citizens themselves must roll up their sleeves to defend our waterways. Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect the ecological integrity of the Hudson River and its tributaries, and to safeguard the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley. You can become a member, learn more about their many efforts, assess the water quality in various neighborhoods of New York City, and sign up to help one of their campaigns at their website.

The Theodore Payne Foundation is an organization dedicated to promoting and restoring California landscapes and habitats and propagating native plants and wildflowers. You can explore their nursery, get tips for sowing seeds and raising your own California native plants, and order from an extensive library of seed packets at their website.

Helping Hands: Helpers for the Disabled serves quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained capuchin monkeys to assist with daily activities. The staff at Helping Hands raise and train these monkeys to act as live-in companions who, over the course of twenty to thirty years, will provide the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help, all at no cost. You can learn more about their programs, watch videos of their monkeys training at monkey college, and find ways to participate at their website.