Free Buddhist Audio
fba-appeal-2011.mp3
(upbeat music) - Hello, my name's Fernando Dassa and I'm the director here at Free But a Studio. Over the past five years, we've been making the Dharma available for free to anyone who wants it. If you use this site, you want over 150,000 regular visitors and you can enjoy free access to well over 1,000 Dharma talks. Since we launched, people all around the world, just like you, have downloaded over 1 million copies of our talks. It's an amazing number and we're very proud as a team to be able to offer this kind of service. Of course, although we're called Free But a Studio, it's not really free for us to provide the service we do. Websites like ours are quite complex and cost quite a lot just to maintain. Our statistics show that less than 1% of people who download from Free But a Studio ever make a donation, but with your help, we think we can do a lot better. And we need to if we're to keep our service free. So I want to urge you today. If you like the work we do and care about the Dharma being free to all, please consider seriously making a regular contribution and become a supporting friend of Free But a Studio. Happily, we don't need a lot. We're asking you to consider giving just a couple of pounds of dollars a week. The price of a good cup of coffee. And if only a few hundred people like you give our suggested sporting donation, that's only £10 or $15 a month. Then our future will be secure and you can keep using Free But a Studio knowing you helped make it all possible. Look for the ways you can easily and securely contribute by clicking the link next to this recording or by going to freebutastudio.com/donate. Become a supporting member of our community today and from myself and the whole team here, thanks very much indeed. (gentle music) (gentle music) You You