Sponsor Group IUOMA

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The IUOMA is free for all members because of the many sponsors that donate to the IUOMA or because of the IUOMA bookshop that brings in money to keep this platform alive & free.

you can visit the bookshop at:

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/iuoma

and when you order a few books, a small fee will be going to the IUOMA and you will get some lovely books on Mail-Art.

Members: 49
Latest Activity: Dec 13

On this page I will keep IUOMA members up to date on how the financial situation is for IUOMA on NING. According to the new guidelines by NING the hosting costed 588 USD (=508 Euro at current rates) when paid on a yearly basis.

For 2024-2025 : 508 EURO is brought up by members/sponsors (paid for)

For 2025-2026 : 540 EURO is brought up by members/sponsors (paid for)

For 2026-2027 : 365 euro needed (175 euros brought up by members/sponsors)

For 2027-2028 : 540 euro needed.

Thanks for all the donations! You people keep this platform alive for all!

update : December 10th 2025

The exchange-rate of USD-EUR might change the numbers a bit. And if NING changes it rates again, the table changes too! Due to decrease of value US$ the price went up for 2026

For Paypal donations: IMPORTANT: please use the friends/family option. That means the transaction costs are minimal and Paypal doesn't get a large part of your donation.

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Comment by MH//ANTIPODE on December 13, 2025 at 12:47pm: I’m honestly kind of shocked by Ning’s overall model. The pricing feels strongly tied to lock in, especially since data export and migration are knowingly made very difficult. Migrating in one piece hardly feels like a realistic option...

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 13, 2025 at 8:29am: Sending some Holiday support to have IUOMA continue through the New Year 2026 and beyond! "KALI XPONIA"

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 13, 2025 at 6:40am: Some progress is made with the donations.

If you want to check the costs of these kind of larger networks, have a look at:
https://www.ning.com/pricing/

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 8, 2025 at 8:11am: Like last year the donations have become more difficult as it seems. Last year it was very close. Seems somehow this network has become too expensive. We will see if we will survive 2026.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on October 15, 2025 at 1:39pm: On the main page you can see how things go with the donations. Still needs some more to go for another year, but there are also the ones that make things possible. Thank you!

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 20, 2025 at 3:14pm: Today the payment for 2025-2026 was done. Turned out higher as expected due to inflation and decrease value US$.

We are online for another year and will see if we can keep this up.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on June 21, 2025 at 12:48pm: The money for another year almost is there. In July 2025 the bill will be paid for the prolongation of the subscription for IUOMA on NING for 2025-2026.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on May 24, 2025 at 5:39pm: Thank you Leslie!

Comment by Leslie Levenson on May 24, 2025 at 5:29pm: Thank you for the reminder to support the site with donations. At the moment in the US, there are so many organizations that are struggling with the reduction or elimination of funding. I want to support them all, but it’s impossible. You have created such a great community and resource here. A true labor of love. I just donated because without art the world becomes a place of only conflict and survival. Art enriches all lives. Thank you for all your hard work.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on May 24, 2025 at 4:42pm: As some of you may have noticed, I needed to stop the www.iuoma.org domain name and also the e-mail addresses connected to that. The original prive was ok, but since Yahoo quite and new organisations in the USA took over, the payment each month was getting too much.

This NING network also is expensive becaiuse of the high volume of data and activities. Somehow each year we manage to keep it alive. Also thanks to the lovely donations I get from members. That way this network stays free for all users and has no advertisings whatsoever.

Seems like the next year will be ok, we are almost there. Bills come always end of June for the next year.

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The money will be used to keep the IUOMA-platform alive. Current donations keep platform online till 1-DEC-2026. If you want to donate to get IUOMA-publications into archives and museums please mention this with your donation. It will then be used to send some hardcopy books into museums and archives. You can order books yourself too at the IUOMA-Bookshop. That will sponsor the IUOMA as well.

IMPORTANT: please use the friends/family option with donation on Paypal. That makes transaction fee the lowest.

This IUOMA platform on NING has no advertisings, so the funding is completely depending on donationsby members. Access remains free for everybody off course

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