''The Plural Association was founded in February 2020 and is a grassroots, peer & volunteer-led Nonprofit.
The Stronghold System proudly volunteers for The Plural Association Nonprofit.''
The Power to the Plurals blog and YouTube channel were started in 2017 and hence most older resources on the Power to the Plurals website are created by The Stronghold System, but actually there are 6 different authors who have published on Power to the Plurals so far and 5 others who have translated articles into other languages!
The website consists of over 50 free articles and various resources, including the free allies of Plurals - 70-page magazine, the Plural spectrum tool, get to know your headmates list - translated in 5 different languages, 50 videos and much more. All articles, videos and resources on the Power to the Plurals website are free! (And yes we run Plural advertisement, including our own, on there.)
The Plural Warmline has not been in development for 4-5 years! The Plural Association nonprofit was founded in February 2020. Since that time, in regards to the warmline; we have defined our warmline plans, we have found volunteers, fundraised the software needed to accept calls, were granted 80.000 free text messages, created the website, had a licensed therapist with DID create a warmline training and trained our warmline volunteers.
We are proudly fully community funded and we need 6 months of operational costs to open and guarantee continuation of service, which includes a hired therapist to support our volunteers and to provide continued education. It's not legal (in the Netherlands) to hire someone without having 6 months of pay for them upfront and it seems like a bad business move to open The Plural Warmline before we can financially carry it long term, hence we fundraise donations, organize paid events, and advertise. (But we got a big advertisement grand, so donation money isn't going there!)
Empowerment & other nonprofit goals:
The Plural Association provides empowerment through live events, articles, videos, resources and education. A translation of our NINE legally documented goals and how we aim to achieve them, can be found here.
We have organized 7 public conference events since founding the nonprofit, including the annual Plural Positivity World Conference (since 2022 also in French and all 90+ sessions can be found for free forever, on the Plural Events Youtube channel) and the very first OSDD-specific live event, DID awareness day events, Plural Acceptance Week and Plural Pride events, and more, and given over 900 scholarships to those events.
We have also coordinated over 100 weekly moderated text chats and brought together Plurals for moderated virtual community meetups over 25 times.
We have never denied anyone who applied for a scholarship and for most events we have $0 tickets readily available, no applications needed at all. We believe that as a community, we can ensure everyone can get access and no one should have to be excluded, especially not on financial grounds.
For paid events we provide event tickets via a sliding scale, starting at $5 or $10 and refuse to organize events that costs hundreds of dollars to attend, like most, if not all other DID/OSDD/Plural conferences. (Also those run by other nonprofits, who most often have limited or no scholarships available.) And we offer scholarships for all these events, no one gets excluded or left behind, especially not based on financial status.
Our paid all-inclusive community:
Our private community is the cheapest paid community for Plurals out there (AFAIK) works with a sliding scale pricing system and it’s all inclusive; all our members get free access to all our paid and public events, our courses, moderated weekly group text chats and moderated monthly virtual meetups, the 25 different (support) groups and more. Each paid membership includes one or more scholarships.
Anyone Plural (no matter the label they use) can apply for a scholarship and we gladly welcome them to join. (Just email us at contact @ thepluralassociation.org ) We also offer a free trial btw.
Field outreach & offline work:
Our nonprofit was founded 2 weeks before the Covid-19 lockdowns started in the Netherlands. This has limited our options for offline work. We have joined 3 protests in the Netherlands, one for Transgender care, as voice hearing is a contraindication in the Netherlands for transcare and two others for better mental health care in the Netherlands at the Dutch parliament, where volunteers of the nonprofit talked with every politician that showed up, to explain DID, OSDD & Plurality to them, to talk about prevention and to demand better health care specifically for those with comorbid diagnosis and/or survivors of early childhood trauma.
The Plural Association was founded in February 2020 and is a grassroots, peer and volunteer-led Nonprofit. It consists out of an international volunteer team, which meets weekly and collaborates on projects, events, community engagement, fundraising, volunteer management and much more.
The Stronghold System, who founded the nonprofit, also proudly volunteers for The Plural Association Nonprofit and our legal papers state that the directors receive no remuneration for their work.
There are more legal protections as a nonprofit under Dutch law and we have ensured to implement all of them to ensure the protection of the Plural community at large and avoid becoming part of the nonprofit industrial complex. You can read more about this on our website, images of our legal documentation are included on that page.