I'm very excited to tell you all that Con or Bust now has its own domain, the imaginatively-named con-or-bust.org! LiveJournal was a good home, but between the downtimes and spam, and the ability to conduct the annual auction without needing people to login, it was time to move ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce this year's auction to support Con or Bust, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF conventions. Bidding starts Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:01 a.m. EST (GMT -5) and ends Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. EST. You may post auction offers and make donations now.

For more details, please see these ( Read more... )

Between the impromptu mini-auction (just under $250) and the T-shirt sales, we raised at least $870 for Con or Bust at WisCon. (I don't know if any T-shirts were sold after I left today.)

roadnotes and elisem are responsible for the existence of the impromptu mini-auction: first roadnotes pulled that gorgeous choker of her bag and handed it to me, and then elisem offered space ( Read more... )

I am delighted to announce that Think Galacticon (Chicago, IL, USA; July 8-10) has donated memberships to Con or Bust (one full, two half-price). Again, the main announcement post has been updated and is the one that should be linked to.

I am delighted to report that Readercon (Burlington, MA, USA, July 14-17) has joined Renovation in supporting Con or Bust, in this case by donating funds. I've updated the announcement post and will continue to do so; please link to that post in continuing to let people know assistance is available!

Con or Bust is pleased to announce that as of this very moment, and through May 31, fans of color/non-white fans may request assistance to attend SFF cons in July, August, and September 2011.

Because there was no advance notice that we'd be taking requests, please repost and link to this post far and wide so that people know that assistance is ( Read more... )

The information that had been in this post is now outdated; please see Support Con or Bust for current information.

Thanks to some amazing last-minute donations, both monetary and in-kind, we ended up being able to provide help for WisCon to everyone who still needed it as of late March-a full sixteen (16!) people, including several first-time con attendees and our first person from outside North America. We raised $10,591.95 total, in addition to donations of ( Read more... )

Hi all-sorry for the silence on the comm. As soon as the biggest rush of post-auction work here finished, I was pretty thoroughly occupied by my, you know, paying day job.

This year we raised a hair over $8,500 (approximately $7,000 from the auction and the rest from donations, including some very generous anonymous ones). We received requests for ( Read more... )

Hi all,

The total of the current high bids is approximately $4,000, which is well short of both our goal of $7K and the requests for assistance to this year's WisCon alone, which are currently approaching $9K. I don't know how big a push we can make in the last two days and a bit of the auction, but let's give it a shot.

Here's a quick primer on ( Read more... )