I am incredibly pleased to announce a major expansion of Con or Bust: after this year's WisCon, Con or Bust will provide assistance to people of color to attend the SFF cons of their choice, rather than only WisCon or other cons selected by Con or Bust. For more information, please see this post at con_or_bust.

This year's auction ends Sunday, March 6, 2011 ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to announce that Con or Bust, which helped nine fans of color go to WisCon this year, will continue thanks to the Carl Brandon Society, which has agreed to take over the financial management of the fund, that is, hold the money.

What does this mean for Con or Bust's future? A few things:

• This year's excess money will be rolled over to ( Read more... )

I'm closing the books on the WisCon Assistance Fund for the year [*], and here's the final report:

We raised $5,898.14; sent nine fans of color to WisCon on $4,294.26 and four transferred memberships; and are donating $1,603.88 to the Carl Brandon Society. (You can see full details at the spreadsheet, as always.)

On one level, nine people's not a ( Read more... )

I meant to include this in last night's post and forgot. Whee.

There had been a little bit of talk about doing . . . something . . . for this year's WorldCon, but it got lost in the bustle of WisCon-related activity. I also hadn't got the impression that there was a lot of interest. However, let's try again:

Is there any interest in, first, a ( Read more... )

The WisCon Assistance Fund is currently running a surplus because one fan is no longer requesting assistance. If any fans of color out there need last-minute assistance to attend WisCon, head over to this post and comment.

(Cross-posted to con_or_bust.)

We did it! We've raised enough money to send all ten of the fans of color who asked for assistance to WisCon this year.

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I am pleased to report that nine fans of color have requested assistance from the WisCon Assistance fund. Right now we are projected to have just enough for all of them-if flights do not go up in the meantime, no-one needs extras like, umm, food, no-one else requests assistance, and no auction winners flake out. Et cetera. So keep spreading the ( Read more... )

con_or_bust is live (or gradually will be over the day as people wake up and enable comments on their posts.) More items are coming-I will be listing some very exciting stuff this week-and you can list items through the end of the fundraiser, Monday, April 13.

As no-one's yet offered crash space, I am setting the current goal for the fundraiser at $2,500, to ( Read more... )

1. Donations

I'd asked that people not send donations until Wednesday, when I would post a target for the fundraiser, but some people are already sending donations. So if your donation amount will not be influenced by the overall target, here's how to send monetary donations (updated March 21 to add link to most recent set of instructions, rather ( Read more... )

Are you a fan of color who wants to go to Wiscon, but doesn't have the resources? This fundraiser is for you: to raise services and money so you can go and be your own awesome self, doing whatever you would normally do at Wiscon.

First, read the announcement post for background. Then comment here with

1. an e-mail address;
2. the name under which you' ( Read more... )