How You Can Help the USMRA


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How You Can Help the USMRA™

Fund Raising Campaign

The USMRA is a private organization dedicated to improving mine rescue training. We are not affiliated with any state or federal agency and currently receive no external funds. Although we offer FREE MEMBERSHIP, we've developed several ways which you can use to help us continue this work.

Google's AdSense Program

Throughout our site, you'll notice Google advertisements. Typically they look like this:

We've selected this program for its unobtrusiveness and well as its page content relevance. Here's how it works:

Ads are generated based on the content of the page where they appear.
No purchase, no signup, or any other commitment is required.

Amazon Affiliate Program

For all those that enjoy the convenience of shopping on the Internet and the luxury of one-stop shopping that Amazon offers, this is for you.

The USMRA is an Amazon affiliate which means we receive commissions on merchandise purchased as a result of linking from our site.

We currently offer direct links to mining and disasters books, but any purchase related to your linking from here awards us the commission.

The price of products that you purchase is the same as when linking directly.

Shopping for Emergency Care textbooks? Click here for all the latest editions.

Here are some of the books we've helped to promote:

Famous Sheppton Mine Rescue
The Untold Story: The Blood and Sweat of the Rescue Team
by J. Ronnie Sando

No. 9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster
by Bonnie E. Stewart

The Deep Dark
Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
by Gregg Olsen

Fire and Brimstone
The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
by Michael Punke

47 Down
The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster
by O. Henry Mace

Red Helmet
by Homer Hickam

Monongah
by Davitt McAteer

Smith Mine Disaster Chronicles
by Jeff McNeish

The Scotia Widows
by Gerald Stern

History of Bear Creek Mountain
by Jeff McNeish

Monongah 1907 DVD
by Davitt McAteer

Goodbye Wifes and Daughters
by Susan Kushner Resnick

Hazard
by Gardiner Harris

More Mine Disaster Books from Amazon

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Ad Space Available

Do you have a product or service that we can help promote and link to?  In addition to our Links Library, we'd be proud to display your advertisement graphic and provide you with the advantage of our high volume web traffic.

Access to view our Google Analytics reports is available to designated representatives of those that advertise here.

The cost of advertising on this site is $100.00 per month (3 month minimum).  Advertisers may choose up to 5 locations for their ad placement.  E-mail usmra@usmra.com or phone 724-366-5272 for more information.

General Fund Donations through PayPal

Give as little or as much as you want.  All donations to the General Fund go to helping us advance the primary mission of the USMRA.  Secure credit card payments are made through PayPal.

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