The Outcry Fund
The people who need Time Release Safes most sometimes can’t pay for it. So we built sponsorship into the model, not bolted on later. For every 1,000 paying subscribers TRS reaches, we sponsor a full year of Plus for someone who couldn’t otherwise afford protection — nominated by a credentialed advocate.
The commitment
One sponsored account for every thousand paying subscribers.
The Outcry Fund is what keeps our safety mission honest as we grow. Every time TRS reaches another one thousand paying subscribers, one more person gets a full year of the Plus tier ($9.99/mo, ~$100/year) at no cost to them. It scales with the business. It caps at the review capacity we actually have. And it makes every paying customer part of the mission by default.
The tier they get is the same Plus tier anyone else buys: unlimited Safes, unlimited trust circle, 720p video capture, extended retention, custom cooling-off windows. Every safety feature TRS ships. No downgraded “charity” version.
A credentialed advocate submits an Outcry request
Outcry accounts aren’t self-nominated. A credentialed advocate — a DV shelter caseworker, a licensed social worker, a legal aid attorney, or an equivalent affiliated with an NNEDV-member organization — makes the nomination on behalf of someone they are already working with. That layer of accountability protects the person being nominated and protects the fund from abuse.
The request includes the survivor’s name and email, a brief statement that they are at risk and unable to afford protection, and the advocate’s credential and organization. Nothing more.
The request is sent as an encrypted Safe to a published address
Advocates don’t email a form. They open the TRS app, create a Safe containing the request, and send it to Outcry@timereleasesafes.com — a public inbox monitored by our in-house DV specialist. The Safe is encrypted end-to-end using the exact same architecture as every other Safe on the platform. Our engineering team never sees the letter. Nobody at TRS but the DV specialist can read it.
We use our own product to receive Outcry requests because the requests contain the highest-stakes personal information we would ever receive. It would be strange to protect it any other way.
The DV specialist reviews and activates the account
Our specialist confirms the advocate’s credential, reviews the request, and activates a full year of Plus for the person named. They receive a welcome email with a signup link tied to their email address. They set their own password. They control the account entirely.
Thirty days before the year is up, the sponsoring advocate receives a renewal-window email. If the person still needs sponsorship, the advocate resubmits. There is no automated lapse in the middle of a crisis.
Who can submit an Outcry request
To keep the fund working for the people it was built for, the initial credentialing criteria are:
- Domestic-violence advocates or caseworkers affiliated with a member organization of the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
- Licensed attorneys practicing family, immigration, or civil-rights law with an active state-bar credential
- Licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) or equivalent credentialed practitioners
If you are an advocate who does not fit one of these categories but is nonetheless the right person to make an Outcry nomination, write to us and tell us why. The credentialing list is a starting point, not a closed door.
Additional channels are on the roadmap
The Sponsorship Program is designed to grow. Outcry is our first channel because domestic-violence survivors are the group we can most directly serve today. A parallel channel focused on civil-rights defenders, protest legal observers, journalists, and organizers is drafted and waiting on its own credentialing framework.
When the operational infrastructure is in place, we will also open a public donation channel so anyone can sponsor a specific person for a year. Until then, the fund is powered entirely by our subscription revenue — which means every paying customer is already part of it.