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Friends, this has been an extraordinary year for the auction. We know how and why this happened: like in early 2017, everyone is scared and upset and looking for a way to do something meaningful.

And—just like in 2017, and every year since—hundreds of us have stepped up to support our most vulnerable neighbors and the organizations working to protect them.

Except this year, we did it on a scale we've never done before.

Last year, our donation total was an incredible $67,776.28

This year's donation total...

are you ready for it....

(you're not ready for it. we weren't.)

This year's donation total is:

Yes, you're reading that right. $127,204.11

We're flummoxed too—and deeply grateful to everyone who has poured their time and effort and money and love into participating in the auction this year, and into the fanworks that will come from it.

If you're curious about how those donations were distributed across the different organizations, here is the breakdown (this breakdown doesn't include employer match donations, which is why the total is a little lower):

Bellingcat: $2,636.19

Congo Leadership Initiative: $2,842

Crips for esims for Gaza: $4,762.60

Disability Law United: $3,835.39

Environmental Integrity Project: $3,712

Fight for the Future Education Fund: $3,108

Freedom to Read Foundation: $7,139.50

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: $6,473

Hope for Ukraine: $12,613.93

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda: $3,626

Middle East Children's Alliance: $13,572.43

National Network to End Domestic Violence: $4,999.95

Never Again Action: $4,555

News Literacy Project: $3,745.16

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights: $10,072.56

Umbrella: organizations serving vulnerable LGBTQ people

Brave Space Alliance: $2,558

Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $2,636

Sherlock's Homes: $7,780.77

TransFamily Support: $5,387.01

TransQueerPueblo: $2,949

Other local LGBT organizations: $10,696.71 Yes, you're reading that right again. Three orgs AND the cumulative Other local LGBT orgs broke five figures.

We're especially delighted because, for the first time, the umbrella category worked the way we've always hoped it would! As you can see above, significant numbers of people used the umbrella category as a way to connect to an organization local to them.

As we learned through people's comments on the donation form, some people donated to organizations they were already familiar with (and in some cases had already donated to, or even volunteered at); others used this as a reason to learn more about their local organization and support them.

We'll share more about the "other umbrella" donations over the next few weeks—some more detailed stats, as well as the names of some of the local orgs that people donated to—and we'll invite those of you who connected up with local orgs to share your stories. We love that so many people took this chance to support groups working in their own community, and we hope that we can keep that going next year and beyond!

And speaking of the future!

Now is a great time to follow the tumblr for FTH 2025 fanworks. We'll use that blog to share any auction fanwork that gets posted to tumblr.
We urge you to keep up with the organizations you supported this year (and the others on our list!) Follow them on social media, subscribe to their newsletters, whatever works best for you. It will enable you to keep an eye on the good work you've helped support, and to find out quickly when these orgs need some extra support, financial or otherwise.

And if you're looking out at the world and feeling the itch to do more, here are some possibilities:

Follow the tumblr for fthaction, the meatspace activism wing of FTH. We relaunched this project in the weeks between the end of signups and the beginning of browsing period, sharing some reading lists, an individualized activism bingo card, and an AMA with activist and organizer Kat Calvin. (We also did a test-flight AMA with ourselves, talking about the auction.) We'll probably need some time to recover from this year's auction, but we'll be back soon with more resources to share, more AMAs, and more tools for exploring all the different forms that meaningful activism can take and for figuring out which ones are right for you.
Organize your own auction! We've put together a detailed playbook that contains that contains as much information and as many resources as we can provide for getting an auction off the ground, including detailed guides. Almost everything in the playbook is fully public; there are a few forms that are access-locked because google has stupid ideas about sharing forms, but we're happy to give you access to those, too: just drop us an email.

Over here at FTH headquarters we are all in need of a long nap. But we'll be back in a couple of weeks, as promised, to share more about the umbrella orgs and to dig back into @fthaction to see what's possible.

Looking forward to a whole bunch of new fanworks! <3 your FTH mods

fthmods

Bidding opens at 8am ET tomorrow (Tuesday, March 5th.) We’re excited about it too! There are two quick reminders we want to get out in circulation before bidding opens:

1. If a creator's offering post contradicts one of FTH's policies, go by the auction policies.

We have come across a couple of posts that make statements or offers that directly contradict the policies of the auction (e.g. offering a refund for defaulting on a fanwork.) We have corrected these auctions when we find them (in conversation with the creators themselves), but with over 850 creators we can't vet every word of every post, so there may be posts with similar statements that we don’t know about.

In case of such a conflict, FTH's official policies always override what an individual creator offers. If you see something in an offering post that doesn’t match your sense of how the auction works, you can check our FAQ, our bidding policies, and our org policies, or email us to ask.

2. Bids placed outside of 8:00:00AM March 5 - 8:00:05PM March 9 will not be counted.

While the auction ends at 8pm ET on March 9th, some of the bidding forms will continue to accept responses for several minutes after that. This is an unavoidable consequence of using google forms: the script we run which closes all of those forms is fast, but it’s definitely not instant. This year, which includes nearly 1100 auctions, it will probably take quite awhile for all the forms to close.

For this reason, we want to be very clear about our policy about bidding cutoff:

All bids that register on the bidding sheet up to and including 20:00:05 ET on March 9th will be considered valid. All bids with a timestamp after that will be considered invalid. We cannot predict or control how long any individual bid will take to process; all we can do is to lay out a clear policy in advance and stick to it consistently.

Similarly, some bidding forms will open a bit before or after 8:00AM on March 5. However, no bids placed before that time will be counted (if we find them we will remove them). If your bidding form still is not open by 10:00AM EST, please email us.

fthmods

Find it here!

fth2024craftbazaar

Bookbinding and fiber arts are the big winners so far this year, but you can also get custom stamps, prints, keychains, painted bowls, and notebooks so far! And we’ll keep adding new stalls through next Tuesday, so be sure to check back.

fthmods

Four hours ago we re-opened signups, wondering if we might find 19 more creators to bring our total number of offers up to an even 1k. We asked you to reblog far and wide, see if we could get in front of new eyes. You guys came through in spades.

We asked for 19. You gave us 100, for a grand total of 1081 auctions, including 15 in brand new write-in fandoms, so maybe that flurry of reblogging worked in reaching new audiences.

Thank you. Seriously.

And now, sit tight while we run scripts and generate forms and posts. You'll get an email shortly with links to view your offer and a form for submitting edits.

fthmods

We think everyone who has seen our posts and wants to sign up has done so ... but we wonder if we can get enough new eyeballs to find 19 more creators (or more) in the next 4 hours because although we've already set records with signups this year, we're very curious to see what a Fandom Trumps Hate auction with 1000 offers looks like.

With that possibility in mind, we've decided to re-open the signup form through 4:30 PM Pacific. Signal boost like crazy and see if we can reach new corners of fandom before time runs out on this bonus window. Whether we reach 1k signups or not, the form will be closing again at 4:30 PM Pacific.

Signups are OPEN. Briefly!

Fandom Trumps Hate is a fanworks auction raising money for progressive nonprofit organizations. You can learn more about us here.

fthmods

We're having a record-breaking year for creator signups so far: as of this morning, with almost six days to go, people have signed up to offer more than 550 fanworks. (For comparison: in 2020, our biggest year ever, we had 747 fanwork offers.)

We hope you'll join us in making this a successful year raising money for the incredible organizations on our 2022 list. (For more details about each of them, look here!)

If you're signing up to offer a fanwork for FTH for the first time, it's a good idea to check out our tips for first-time FTH creators. If you've offered (or bid on) fanworks in FTH in the past, you might find it helpful to read about the changes we've made to how we categorize fanworks. (nothing major! but possibly a little confusing if it's not what you are expecting.) And if you have any questions that aren't answered in either of those pages or in our (newly-revised and now-even-longer) FAQ, feel free to drop a comment on this post!

Creator signups for FTH 2022 close on February 13th. Sign up here!

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FTH 2025 Donation Totals

a couple of important announcements before the auction starts

the FTH crafts bazaar is live!

Signups are closed. Again. And thank you!

So, we had a thought ...

Signups are OPEN. Briefly!

there's still time to sign up for the FTH auction!

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