Fandom Trumps Hate 2025

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We’re back, folks! FTH is back for be our ninth (!) auction, and there’s lots of good work to be done. (What is Fandom Trumps Hate?)

In this post you’ll find the calendar for the 2025 auction, along with links to some useful information, including this year’s list of supported organizations. (All of these same links can be found in our masthead, but since that’s not visible on mobile we wanted to make them easy to find elsewhere.) You’ll also find dates for our Crafts Bazaar. (wait, the what? Read more at our 2024 Crafts Bazaar page.)

Here is this year’s list of supported organizations. We’ll be posting more detailed profiles of each of them over the coming weeks. We also encourage you to look at the Auction FAQ (which has lots of useful information for people thinking about signing up as creators, as well as dedicated sections on bidding and on nonprofit orgs.) If you’re raring to go, you can look at our bidding policies.

Lastly, in a couple of weeks we’ll be kicking off our newly-revived offscreen activism tumblr blog, FTHAction. If you're on tumblr, give us a follow!

FTH2025 Auction Calendar

Monday, January 20th: creator signups open for both the auction and the crafts bazaar

Sunday, February 2nd: creator signups close.

Friday, February 21st: browsing period begins, crafts bazaar announcement goes live

Tuesday, February 25th, 8am ET: bidding opens. craft bazaar is also open!

Saturday, March 1st, 8pm ET: auction bidding closes

Monday, March 10th: craft stalls close

Wednesday, March 12: proof of donations due

 

…and if you’re thinking the gap between the end of signups and the beginning of browsing period looks long: we have also noticed this! In order to accommodate some back-end changes that will help the auction run more smoothly, we’ve given ourselves an extra week to get ourselves set up. We’ve also got some stuff in the works to occupy that time – we’ll say more about that when the time arrives.

Together, we’re going to make sure that there is at least one (1) good thing in the world with the number 2025 attached to it.

Supported Nonprofits for the 2025 Auction

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Every year, we put together a focused list of small, progressive nonprofits that are making the world a better place on a very small budget. When you participate in the auction, you have a chance to help those amazing organizations out while also enriching your fandom!

This year's organizations work toward a range of causes: resisting censorship, journalistic integrity, civil rights, disability rights, reproductive rights, and human rights, provide humanitarian aid, and that bolster efforts to educate and create leaders for democracy around the world.

We'll be posting more detailed profiles of each of these organizations over the next few weeks.

Bellingcat *

Congo Leadership Initiative *

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Disability Law United *

Environmental Integrity Project

Fight for the Future Education Fund

Freedom to Read Foundation *

Global Project Against Hate And Extremism *

Hope for Ukraine *

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda *

Middle East Children’s Alliance *

National Network to End Domestic Violence

Never Again Action

News Literacy Project *

Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights *

 

Umbrella: LGBT Orgs

As we've done for the last four years, FTH is once again offering one “umbrella” category. This year our umbrella category is community organizations serving and supporting vulnerable members of the LGBT community. We're providing a handful of exemplary organizations working in communities where the need is especially acute, but we invite participants to donate to their own local grassroots organization as well.

• Brave Space Alliance
• Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc *
• Sherlock’s Homes Foundation *
• TransFamily Support Services
• TransQueerPueblo
• or a similar organization working in your community!

 

Organizations marked with an asterisk (*) allow for international donations directly through their websites. The orgs without asterisks may take international donations through a paypal or venmo account. If you are a non-US-based bidder/donor and you are having trouble finding an organization to which you can donate, please email us directly at fandomtrumpshate @ gmail . com.



As always, we have an option for participating creators to support an organization that's not on our list. You can read our policy on outside organizations here.