History

In 2017 The Stronghold System started their blog and YouTube channel Power to the Plurals.

Not long after, they opened AlterNation, an inclusive of all forms of Plurality Facebook group. 

How we started The Plural Association Nonprofit: 

In February 2020, The Plural Association Stichting, the Dutch word for Nonprofit, was founded, the first grassroots, peer and volunteer led nonprofit organization for Plurals, no matter the words or labels they use to describe their unique and individual experience with ‘Manyness.’ 
 
We have translated our goals into a mission statement where our main goal is the empowerment of Plurals, no matter the labels they use, including but never limited to Dissociative Identity disorder and Other specified dissociative disorder. 

Image of Stronghold, a nonbinary person with short brown hair, smiling at the camera while signing the nonprofit contract.

List of accomplishments:

TPA ADMIN:

  • Stronghold founded TPA on February 5th 2020. This was 2 weeks before Covid-19 lock down started in The Netherlands.

 

FUNDRAISING:

  • We fundraised the startup cost of The Plural Association Nonprofit.
  • We fundraised the startup cost for The Plural Warmline software purchase (not the call costs) in 1 day!

 

CONFERENCES:

  • We organized The Mini Conference for Plurals, 2 days before the conference started, the app we were using broke, and we switched over successfully to a new platform, despite the time limit. 
  • We organized the Plural Positivity World Conference 2021 and had 200 Systems live in our conference software.

 

EVENTS:

  • Monthly Community meetup in Airmeet.
  • Weekly Community text chat in TPA Community.
  • World Mental Health Day 2021.

 

Protests:

  • TPA joined a protest Saturday June 26 2021, for better trans care in the Netherlands and to represent Plurals in these important conversations. They announced a Dutch summer of trans rage. We hosted the largest ever Trans Plural live stream!

 

MEDIA:

  • We were on the Dutch NOS news.
  • We were on Dutch TV & YouTube ‘’Je Zal Het Maar Hebben.’’
  • We were on the Dutch radio for ‘’Fun X’’
  • We were interviewed but not published, by the New York Times Magazine.
  • We were interviewed for dirty work media [redacted till aired] video episode which they estimate will reach 65 million people.
  • We were interviewed by a journalist for a German article.

 

SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN:

  • 43 for The Plural Association Community 2021.
  • 10 for mini conference 2020.
  • 106 for World Mental Health Day event.

Collaborations:

  • OSDD article and video.
  • Simply Plural App.
  • French Department of TPA.
  • Video for ISSTD.

 

SPONSORSHIPS:

  • We proudly sponsored the Trans Wellness Conference 2021.
  • We got accepted for an advertisement grant.  If you see advertisements from us, they are financially covered by the grant and we do not use your donation money to run advertisements.
  • We got accepted for the Tech grant.
  • We got accepted by YouTube as a nonprofit.
  • We got accepted by Paypal as a nonprofit.
  • We got accepted by Twitch /  Streamlabs Charity.
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