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copperbadge · 1 year

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Hey Sam! Since it's currently AO3 donation time, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on it? I'm asking because you've written RPF and it's one of many "anti-AO3/anti-AO3 donations" people's favourite things to bring up when they're complaining about AO3 getting so many donations that it continuously obtains an excess of its donation goal whenever donation time rolls around? (Wow, how many times can I say "donation" in an ask?) Sorry if this question bothers you! I don't mean to offend or annoy.

Hey anon! Sorry it took a while to get to this, I don't even know if the drive is still going on, but the question came in while I was traveling and I didn't really have the time for stuff that wasn't travel-related. In any case, let's dig in! (I am not offended, no worries.)

So really there are two issues here and as much as some people who are critical of AO3 want to conflate them, they are different. While some criticism of AO3 may be valid, rhetoric against AO3 tends to misinterpret both in separate ways.

First there's the issue of what AO3 hosts -- RPF, yes, but more broadly, varied content that some people find distasteful or think should be illegal, which is a misunderstanding of the purpose of the archive and more broadly a dangerous attitude towards the concept of freedom of expression.

Second, there's the issue of AO3 generally outpacing its fundraising goals while not allowing monetization, which is a misunderstanding of the legal status of AO3 and to an extent a misunderstanding of philanthropy as a whole.

The longer I watch debates about content go on, the more I come to the conclusion that I was fortunate to have a teacher who really wanted to instill in us an understanding of free speech not as a policy but as an ongoing dialogue. It's not only that freedom of expression "protects you from the government, not the Justin" as the meme goes, but also that freedom of expression is not a static thing. It's an ongoing process of identifying what we find harmful in society and what we want to do about it.

Should the freedom to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater be restricted? Should the freedom to yell slurs at drag performers? Should the freedom to teach prepubescent kids about gender, sexuality, and/or safe sex? Should the freedom to wear a leather puppy hood at Pride? Who gets to say, and why?

I was nine when my teacher did a unit on freedom of speech and the intersection of "harm prevention" and "censorship", which is (and should be) a discussion, not a set of ironclad rules. This ambiguity has thus been with me for over thirty years, and I'm comfortable with the ambiguity, with the process; I'm not sure a lot of people critical of AO3's content truly are. Perhaps some can't be, especially those affected by hate speech, but RPF is not hate speech. It's just fiction. Or is fiction "just fiction"? This is a question society as a whole is grappling with, although fandom seems to be a little out ahead of society in terms of how explicitly we discuss it.

The idea that prose can incite violence or cause harm is both valid to examine (witness the rise of fascism on the radio in the 20s, on Facebook and Twitter in the past ten years; they're very similar processes) and a very slippery slope. Because again: who decides what harm is, and what causes it, and what we do about it? Our values align us with certain beliefs, but those are only our values, not universal truths. So AO3 is part of the ongoing question of harm and benefit both to society and individuals.

AO3 itself, however, has a fairly defined policy that it is not meant to police content; it is an archive, not a bookstore or a school board. AO3 refines its TOS and policies as necessary, but the goal is always open access and as much freedom of expression as possible, and if that's uncomfortable for some people then that's a discussion we have to have; ignoring it won't make it go away. But it has to be a discussion, it can't be a unilateral change to the archive's TOS or a series of snaps and clapbacks, and I don't see a lot of people ready to move beyond flinging insults. Perhaps because they were taught a much more binary view of freedom of expression than I was.

So, self-evidently, I support AO3 and I don't have a problem with RPF. Whether other people do is something we're going to have to get to grips with, and that's likely to be a process that is still going on when most of us are dust. I'd rather have a century of ambiguity than a wrong answer tomorrow, anyway.

But whether AO3 hosts RPF is truly a separate issue from its donation drives, because it's a criticism some people level at the site which exists whether it's fundraising or not. So people can criticize AO3's open policy and they can give it as a reason not to support the site, but it's just one aspect of the archive and the fundraising as a whole should be examined separately.

I think AO3's fundraisers are deeply misunderstood (sometimes on purpose) because even people who are anticapitalist get a little crazy when money gets involved, and this is, to fandom, a lot of money -- a few hundred thousand, reliably, every fundraiser. To me, a fundraiser that pulls in three hundred grand is almost quaint; my current nonprofit pulls in better than ten million a year and my previous employer had an endowment of several billion dollars. At my old job I didn't even bother researching people who couldn't give us a hundred grand.

On the other hand, AO3 is an extreme and astounding outlier in the nonprofit world, because basically it's the only one of its kind to work the way it does. It is entirely volunteer-run on the operational side (ie: tag wranglers, coders, lawyers, etc) and has no fundraising staff (gift officers, researchers, outreach officers) as far as I'm aware. To pull in three hundred grand from individual one-time donations, without any paid staff and without even a volunteer fundraising officer? That's insane. That doesn't happen. Except at AO3.

What people misunderstand, however, is the basic status of a nonprofit, which is a legal status, not simply a social one. (I'm adding in some corrections here since it gets complicated and the terminology can be important!) The Organization for Transformative Works, the parent of AO3, is a nonprofit, which indicates how it was incorporated as an organization; additionally it is registered federally as tax-exempt, which carries certain perks, like not paying sales tax, and certain duties, like making their financials transparent to a certain extent. (Religious nonprofits are exempt from the transparency requirement.) If you're interested in more about nonprofits and tax-exempt status a reader dropped a great article here.

Nonprofits, unlike for-profit companies, cannot pay a share of their income to stakeholders. Nonprofits don't have financial stakeholders, only donors. They can have employees and pay them a salary -- that's me, for example -- but if a nonprofit pulls in $10M in donations, my salary is paid from that, I don't get a percentage and nobody else does either. That's what it means to be a nonprofit -- the money above operational costs goes back into the organization. The donations we (and AO3) receive must be plowed under and used for outreach, server maintenance, further fundraising, services expansion, et cetera. You can see this in the 990 forms on Guidestar or ProPublica, or in their more accessible breakdowns on Charity Navigator. Nonprofits that do not put the majority of their income towards service provision tend to get audited and lose their nonprofit status. So nobody's getting paid from all that money, and the overage that isn't spent goes into what is basically a savings account in the name of the nonprofit. (I'm vastly simplifying but that's the gist.) Using that money for personal purposes is illegal. It's called "private inurement" and there's a good article here about it. The money belongs to the OTW as a concept, not to anyone in or of the OTW.

So the biggest misunderstanding that I see in people who are mad at AO3 fundraisers is that "they" are getting all this money (who "they" are is never clearly stated but I'm pretty sure people think @astolat has a special wifi router that runs on burning hundred dollar bills) while "we" can't monetize our fanfic. But "they" get nothing -- nobody even earns a salary from AO3 -- and you can easily prove that by looking at the 990 forms they file with the government, which are required to be made public. You can see the most recently available 990, from 2020, here at Guidestar. Page seven will show you the "highest compensated" employees, all of whom are earning zero dollars or nonmonetary perks (that's the three columns on the right).

Either AO3 is entirely volunteer-run or someone's Doing A Real Fraud. The money the OTW spends is documented (that's page 10 and 11 primarily) and while they may pay for, say, the travel and lodging expenses of a lawyer going to DC to defend a freedom-of-expression case, they don't pay the lawyer for their time, or give them a cut of the income.

Despite what you've read, the reason "we" can't monetize our fanfics on AO3 has nothing to do with the site being the product of volunteer handiwork or AO3 having it in their terms of service or it being considered gauche by some to do so; it's because

IT'S ILLEGAL.

I cannot say this loudly enough: It is against the law for a nonprofit to be used by its staff, volunteers, or beneficiaries to earn direct profit from the services provided by the nonprofit.

You can be paid to work at one, but you cannot side-hustle by selling your handmade friendship bracelets for personal gain on the nonprofit's website. If the nonprofit knowingly allows monetization of its services, it can lose nonprofit status, be fined, be hit with back taxes, and a lot of other unpleasant bullshit can go down, including prosecution of those involved for fraud. If you put a ko-fi link on your fanfic, you are breaking the law, and if AO3 allows it, they are too.

Okay, that was a sidebar, but in some ways not, because it gets to the heart of the real complaints about AO3 fundraising, which is that people in fandom are sick or unhoused or in some form of need and other people in fandom are giving to AO3, a fan site that is financially stable, instead of giving to peoples' gofundmes or dropping money in their Ko-Fi or Paypal. And while it is a legitimate grievance that there are people who are in such desperate need while we live in an era of unprecedented abundance, that's not AO3's fault. AO3 doesn't solicit actively, there's no unasked-for mailings or calls from a gift officer. They just put a banner up on their website, and people give. (Again, this is incredibly outlier behavior in the nonprofit world, I'd do a case study on it but the conclusion would just be "shit's real, yo.") You might as well be mad that people give to their local food bank instead of someone's ko-fi.

You cannot lay at AO3's feet the fact that people want to give to AO3 instead of to your fundraiser. That's a choice individuals have made, and while you can engage with them in terms of why they made the philanthropic choices they did, to blame an organization they supported rather than the person who made the choice to give is not only incorrect but futile, and unlikely to win anyone over to supporting you. We know from research that guilt is not a tremendous motivator of philanthropy.

It is also not necessarily a binary choice; just because AO3 gets a hundred grand in $5 donations doesn't mean most of the people giving don't also give $5 elsewhere. I support the OTW on occasion, and I also fundraise for UNICEF and the Chicago Parks Foundation and BAGLY and others, in addition to giving monthly to several nonprofits that I have longterm relationships with -- my alma mater, the animal rescue where I got the Cryptids, my shul. And I give, occasionally and anonymously, to fundraisers that pass through Radio Free Monday, which are mainly individuals in need, because I was once in need and now I pay it forward. These are the choices I have made. Nobody twisted my arm. I respond poorly to someone making the attempt to do so by attacking places I've given.

I think the upshot is, after all of this that I've written, that we cannot begin to come to grips with questions of institutional inequality in philanthropy, or freedom of expression and censorship, until people actually understand what's going on, and too few do. So all I can do is try and explain, and hopefully create a forum for people to learn and grow when it comes to charitable giving.

Archive Of Our Own and the Organization for Transformative Works are products of our community and as that community changes, we will necessarily continue to re-evaluate what aspects of it mean and how AO3/OTW express the community sentiment. I hope that the ongoing discussion of support for AO3 also leads to people learning more about their philanthropic options. But criticizing AO3 for fundraising by attacking it for fulfilling one of its stated purposes is silly, and attempting to guilt people into giving in the ways one thinks they should give rather than how they do give is just going to make one extremely unlikable.

As members of this community, we have to be a part of the push and pull, but it's difficult to do that competently in ignorance. So, I do my best to be knowledgeable and to educate my readers, and I hope others will do the same.

#ao3 #otw #nonprofit #fundraisers #ao3 nonprofit #that's my new tag for posts like this #if anyone has any of the earlier posts I've done drop a comment in them so I see the post and can tag it #archive

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ootron · 4 months

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Fundraiser to fix flood damage at my parents house

hi, so i've never had to make a fundraising post but unfortunately my parents' house just suffered major storm damage that insurance is not going to cover at all because the roof was "in disrepair"

to summarize, on the night of december 17th there was a huge storm in the NJ area that dumped around 4 inches of rain in a very short time. my parent's were in the middle of getting their roof replaced, but unfortunately the contractor was going extremely slowly. this meant the roof was unprotected and essentially blew off during the storm, letting water ran into the ceiling and down the walls. the ceilings and all the drywall and insulation are shot and need to be replaced, and the roof especially needs to be replaced ASAP. they'll probably need a new contractor. unfortunately, the person they were using before did not have any kind of insurance coverage so his insurance will also not cover anything.

this is going to cost a lot of money and my parents have already been having a lot of financial difficulties the past few years. any donations are appreciated, even if it's a dollar. thank you!

link to the donations:

#donations #fundraisers #i just feel so awful and i want to help how i can. and im so angry at the insurance company lol #this is an old house too like the section this happened in was built 1890 or something #so that's not helping #anyway thank you thank you thank you

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sailoreuterpe · 1 month

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Hey, so guess who has a financial emergency to share for HERSELF for once? Please donate if you can and share regardless. I'm considering getting a second job but I'd like not to work 60+ hour weeks again if I can help it. I can also do things like editing or writing fanfiction for donations; feel free to suggest other compensation.

#Notes by Nikki #mutual aid #fundraiser #fundraising #fundraisers #charity #donate #donation #donations #emergencies #I recognize that this isn't as dire #as say someone with cancer #but it's still urgent for us #being poor is the worst #financial aid

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snekdood · 5 months

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#brianna ghey #anti trans extremism #anti trans violence #signal boost #fundraisers #donations #donate

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recklessyokohama · 2 months

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Palestinian families are in urgent need of financial support to survive the current famine and possibly pay fees to cross the border from Rafah into Egypt, which has an exorbitant cost of $10,000 a person. This spreadsheet outlines all (vetted) current donation links of families requesting support.

Some people have “adopted” a family to focus/sustain their fundraising efforts. You can also join the telegram group to get real time updates on families and how to boost their fundraisers across Tiktok, IG, etc.

Please share widely ❤️‍🩹🇵🇸

#palestine #boost #fundraisers #free palestine #palestine updates #rafah #gaza #free gaza #gaza genocide #donations #gaza under attack #urgent #ceasefire

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gentlebeardsbarngrill · 2 months

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03/04/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Cast&Crew;WJW; Con O'Neill; David Jenkins; Bumbles; Rhys Darby; A LeagueOfTheirOwn Watch Party; Wrecked WP Continues; NewarkNewark WP tomorrow; Fundraiser Statuses; SchadenFreude; Fan Spotlight; Podcasts; LoveNotes; DailyDarby/Tonight's Taika

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

== Wee John Wonday ==

Today's Wee John Wonday featured our Pirate Queen Ruibo Qian! Please check the video out on Kristian's Instagram! Don't have time to watch? There are some highlights below the pic!

Some Highlights:

Anapela couldn't make it tonight sorry!

Ruibo is really into perfume like Kristian

Ruibo and Anapela really clicked on set!

Ruibo still has hope regarding s3!

“DO I wanna smell like a haystack with a cow dung hidden inside of it?” - Ruibo

Ruibo would be interested in polycule, Zheng may not be

Kristian has an announcement coming out tomorrow - 📚

Apparently the last episode, when they were all walking out in the colonial outfits, it was SUPER LONG and a lot of it was cut.

Qian means money = so Ruibo is literally the Money Bitch

== Con O'Neil ==

One of our wonderful crew-mates was out and about and ran into none other than THE Con O'Neill! Thank you so much for sharing this meet up with us @queerjolras!

Con also posted a picture of himself and his pup Cooper on IG today!

== David Jenkins ==

Our friend @cosmosart-s posted a lovely picture of David for the 2 year anniversary OFMD anniversary and David ran it on his IG Story! One thing I've noticed a few people mentioning was the "3" hearts. Not to clown/honk too hard, but just something to think about <3

== Rare Bumbles Sighting ==

Many of you know of Rhys and Rosie's cat Bumbles, but we don't get to see Bumbles too often! Rosie uploaded an adorable photo of one of the Darby Feline-Fam.

== Rhys Darby ==

Are you in Aotearoa? Stop in to seen see Rhys on Wed 3 Apr 2024, 8:00pm–10:00pm at the Wild Estate in Auckland!

New Cryptid Factor Episode!

89: #089 The 2nd First Issue!

Spotify / Podfriend / Apple Podcasts

== New Watch Parties ==

= Mar 3 - Mar 7 A League Of Their Own =

Join us this week starting Monday, March 4th for a multi-fandom watch party! Each day will have different games and polls! (Sorry this is a bit late, I didn't get it until today!)

Where: Amazon Prime

Time: Every day 1 PM EST / 10AM PT!

Day One, March 4th: Pilot episodes for both series with tweeting predictions for the rest of the seasons.

Day Two, March 5th: Bingos! Live tweet your reaction and share your filled out bingo cards!

Day Three, March 6th: Polls! Live tweet your reactions and share your thoughts on the shows so far!

Day Four, March 7th: Caption the screencaps from the shows: Wrong answers only!

Day Five, March 8th: Finale time! Share your predictions for the next seasons with the hashtags.

Watch Party Hashtags:

OurFlagMeansBaseball,

SaveOFMD

SaveALOTO to join the event!

== Watch Party Reminders! ==

Mar 4 - Mar 8: Wrecked Season 1

Wrecked is no longer on any streaming platform, and it is not available digitally on US sites. (Apparently, it is available on German Amazon?) There are sources being passed around. If access is an issue, DM @iamadequate1 on Twitter or Tumblr

Season 1 watch from March 4th to March 8th.

Season 2 watch from March 11th to March 15th.

Season 3 watch from March 18th to March 22nd.

Times will be 10pm GMT / 5pm EST / 4pm CST / 2pm PST. Watch two episodes per day. Episodes are 21-22 minutes each. Use the following Saturday for the tags/watch if interested but not able to make this time.

Hashtags:

#WreckedPirates

#SaveOFMD

#RhysDarbyFaction

= Mar 5: NewarkNewark with @adoptourcrew =

Please join @adoptourcrew for a @NewarkNewark watch party on March 5th at 10 pm GMT/ 2pm PS / 5pm EST!

== Fundraiser Statuses ==

= Underground Ads =

The Final Stage of the Save OFMD Crew fundraisor for the underground ads is still going! If you're so inclined, feel free to donate or share around! Ko-Fi Link

= In Soup Now =

Wow! Only 24 hours open, and already at 10%! Great job all!

== Schaden Freude ==

Thanks @iamadequate1 for catching the very sad times WBD Inc is experiencing on the NASDAQ

== How to Help ==

Another Ranker Poll! Feel free to hop in and bump OFMD up. You can rank shows up AND down so make sure to rank other shows as well. Ranker Link

== Fan Spotlight ==

Our lovely crew-mate @melvisik is back again, this time with our favorite Captain Rhys Darby as part of the Crew Cards <3

== Podcasts ==

@fandomthingpod on Twitter did an episode on the OFMD Renewal campaign and interviewed our esteemed crew-mate @lcwebsxoxo! They gave lots of kudos to the @saveofmdcrewmates and @adoptourcrew and the recaps got a shout out too! (Ty for the mention LC!) The Campaign To Save OurFlagMeansDeath

== Love Notes ==

Hello lovelies :) It was an action packed day for sure (as Mondays usually are). That being said I took some time to do some stuff today I've been meaning to, so I apologize for not taking more time on love notes!

Please know me and your crew-mates are thinking of you and hoping for all the best things for you in the upcoming days.

I know it's short but here are some reminders / love notes in other people's words for today/tomorrow. <3

Stay Strong Lovelies! Whatever you're up to, you're gonna make it through, I believe in you!

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

Yeahhhhh no gifs tonight luvs, I am running late and I can't stop looking at these still pictures anyway, so here you are <3

Taika Src / Rhys courtesy of Prim on Discord!

#daily ofmd recap #daily ofmd recaps #ofmd daily recap #ofmd daily recaps #ofmd #our flag means death #david jenkins #rhys darby #ruibo qian #taika waititi #love notes #watch parties #fundraisers #kristian nairn #bumbles #con o'neill

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sumechiayuu · 12 days

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@/childe_hourly, a Genshin Impact account dedicated to Tartaglia, has composed a thread of fundraisers for Palestinians. To spread it around I've decided to post all the links I can here, because you have to make a twitter account to see a full tweet. Links below:

Help Ayah and Taima, two sisters who need to escape Gaza (need 30k euros)

Help Zinh and her family escape Gaza, she needs 60k euros, and she's almost at her goal

Help Omar Hamed and his family (including his two deaf sisters) escape Gaza (need 50k euros)

Help Mahmoud Abualmajd get a tent and necessities for him and his family in Gaza (needs 7k euros, close to his goal)

Help Ghufran, a child with ichtyosis, escape Gaza with her family for treatment (need 50k Canadian dollars)

Help Mohammed and his family in Gaza (need 25k euros)

Help Rodina’s family get out of Gaza (need 100k euros)

Help Maram and her family escape from Gaza (need 60k USA dollars)

Help Ahmed Alqatwari and his family escape Gaza (need 55k USA dollars)

Help Nael survive in Gaza (needs 10k euros)

Help Arwa Skaik and her family escape Gaza (need 40k euros)

Help Maryam Y. and her family escape Gaza (need 46k euros)

Help Abood Mushtaha escape Gaza (need 20k euros)

Help Alaa save her family (need 35k euros, warning for close up picture of injury)

Help Jehan Abualatta and her family escape Gaza (need 50k Australian dollars)

Help Oday and his family escape Gaza (need 15k USA dollars)

Help Mohammed and family escape Gaza (need 51k dollars* *Not sure if usa Canadian or Australian dollars)

Help Deema Dalloul and her family escape Gaza (need 60k dollars* *Not sure if usa Canadian or Australian dollars)

Help Bashar escape Gaza so he can pursue his education in medicine (needs 65k Australian dollars)

Help Naji Al-Sawafiri’s escape Gaza (need 10k euros)

Help Noor and her family escape Gaza (need 35k euros)

Help Haytham and his Family escape Gaza So they can evacuate to Egypt (need 50k Canadian dollars)

Help Nagham and her family escape Gaza (need 20k Swiss franc)

Help Mojeeb and his family survive in Gaza (need 25k euros)

Help Diaa’s family escape from Gaza (need 100k dollars* *Not sure if USA Canadian or Australian dollars)

Help Sohaib Aniss Abo Anza’s family of 7 escape Gaza (need 45k euros)

Help Dr. Alaa evacuate his family from Gaza (need 40k euros)

Help Tabseem AbuJamie’s family escape from Gaza (need 54k euros)

Help Dema Albanna and her family (needs 20k euros)

Help Alaa and Heba’s family evacuate Gaza (need 40k Canadian dollars)

Help Yara’s family escape Gaza (need 10k Canadian dollars)

Help Sozan and her family escape Gaza (need 30k euros)

Help Mohammed get his family out of Gaza (need 45k euros)

Help Amal and her family (need 60k euros)

Help Mohammed Al Sayed escape Gaza (need 70* dollars *not sure if USA Canadian or Australian dollars)

Help Ahmed Hassan get his Family out of Gaza (need 30k euros)

Help Noha Ayyad get her sick brother healthcare (need 95k dollars* *Not sure if USA Canadian of Australian dollars)

Help Mohammed and Aya get out of Gaza (need 35k euros)

Help Baraa Tayeh escape Gaza (need 40k euros)

Help Ahmad Al Turk in Gaza (need 40k euros)

Help Aseel Jadallah’s family escape Gaza (need 20k euros)

Help Hayam and her family escape Gaza (need 30k euros)

Help Yosra save her Family (need 110k euros)

Other links to help Palestinians

@/el-shab-hussein’s masterpost of fundraisers

Recent post of fundraisers masterpost by me

Operation Olive Branch (they made a website)

PCRF

#Sumechiaspeaks #Palestine #Free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #free Gaza #mutual aid #aid #donations #fundraiser #fundraisers #palestina #rafah #Also note that Egypt is soon closing its borders #so this is very urgent

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hellyeahscarleteen · 4 months

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A few days ahead of our 25th on Friday, we started letting people know that we need major financial help. Scarleteen is now and has always been wholly independent -- you know, the kind of indie feminist media whose near-extinction we have been witnessing -- and so always needs funding, including in the form of individual donations, to exist. One thing donors and other folks who know about media costs and nonprofit operating expenses have often said is that Scarleteen has always done a truly remarkable and impactful amount of work with the small budget it has. They're right. Our annual budget these days is just $250,000 USD, and for most of our tenure, it was much, much smaller than that. Yet we run 24/7 help and information direct services, and produce quality, wholly original editorial content, and do all this to provide smart, comprehensive, inclusive, and wholly opt-in sex and relationships education to millions of young people, at no cost to them, every year. You may have seen us say that we need 750 recurring $10 a month donors or the financial equivalent to get through 2024 and into the coming years. In the last week, a bunch of folks have helped us knock that number down to 613. Yay! We still need a lot of help to meet our goal: we need to meet 100% not just under 20%. That goal is what we need to reach to fill a current funding deficit we must resolve before summer of 2024 to keep doing all we do and give us a tiny bit of momentum towards meeting more than just our minimum needs. If we can't meet this goal, we’re so sorry to say it, but for as hard as we have been working to solve this, things just won't look great for us and our future. We really need your help. If you can become a monthly donor, that’s fantastic. Thank you! Or maybe you already are and want to help more, or can’t donate but still want to help: sharing posts like these on your socials, setting up a personal online fundraiser, telling people you know about us and the kind of help we need: these are also great helps! 💗

#sex ed #sex education #fundraisers #donations #feminist #queer #lgbtqia

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lean444 · 2 months

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LINKTREE WITH FUNDRAISERS FOR GAZA UPDATED DAILY. INCLUDING FOR MY FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS.

BOOST. LOOK THROUGH THIS. SHARE. RETWEET. POST ON INSTAGRAM. COPY LINKS AND SEND THEM TO YOUR CIRCLES AND COMMUNITIES AND EVERY PERSON IN YOUR LIFE. NO ONE HAS AN EXCUSE. THESE ARE ALL HONEST FUNDRAISERS AND MANY ARE GAZANS I KNOW. DO IT. DO IT. DO IT.

#gaza #palestine #fundraisers #fundraiser for gaza

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the-amazing-boop · 9 days

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PLEASE HELP THIS YOUNG MAN IN ANY WAY YOU CAN. SHARE OR DONATE. CURRENTLY AT $320K OF A 700K GOAL.

HERE IS HIS STORY:

Bismillah Ar rahman ar-raheem

I am Zanyar and launching this fundraising campaign to evacuate my friend Shadi from Gaza, via the Rafah/Egypt crossing. I will be responsible of sending Shadi his funds. The crossing currently requires a fee of $5,000 per person. This is the only way for him and his Family to survive

Shadi is my friend, a civil engineer from Palestine-Gaza. He has endured 24 years of unyielding siege in Gaza, facing relentless aggression, constant bombing, and constant fear. He has personally survived more than six repeated attacks against the residents of Gaza, the last of which was in 2022, and now the 2023 Gaza War. Him, his father, mother, three brothers, and 18-year-old sister are stuck in Gaza, and have narrowly escaped death several times during this war. Gaza offers no refuge, leaving them, refugees from 1948, now facing displacement again in 2023.

From Shadi:

Since this war genocide ignited again in October 2023, three days after the start of the war, our house was bombed at nine o'clock in the evening, and the civil defense and ambulance crews took us out from under the rubble of the house.

Fortunately for us, we only had injuries in the extremities, and we went to Al-Shifa Hospital and they treated us there

My goal in communicating is to urgently raise funds to evacuate me and my family from Gaza before the Israeli occupation bombing kills us. My mother and brother are already injured and need treatment, which is a luxury now in Gaza while people are reduced to limbs and ashes due to the large number of bombings, martyrs, injuries and the destruction of hospitals.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #gaza strip #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza genocide #jerusalem #genocide #gofundme #share #donate #donations #donation #fundraiser #fundraisers

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bxdtime-ceai · 2 months

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Lots of people sending asks about donating to help their families this weekend. But I need people to know how many bots and scams have been on this website operating that way. How can you tell that an account that was made 12h ago is a legit fundraiser? Please let me know

#mine #palestine #fundraisers

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sailoreuterpe · 1 year

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I love Archive of Our Own. I also love that the people who love AO3 funded the entire fundraising goal in less than an hour. If you want to see the Archive's budget, here you go.

#Archive of our Own #AO3 #fanfic #fan fic #fanfiction #fan fiction #writing #writers #reading #readers #authors #literature #fundraising #fundraisers #fundraiser #hosting is expensive #Notes by Nikki #50 #100

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sum-binch · 1 year

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Please help he is just a little guy, he deserves to live a long and happy life, and my fiancé has already gone through so much between his transition and losing so many people he loves, he can’t afford to lose anyone else. even if you can’t donate please share, he needs the treatment badly.

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ayyy-imma-ninja · 9 months

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If SK Sun and Moon like kids recitals, how do they feel about school fundraisers such as bake sales or selling other things. Oh! What about the festivals schools put on every year.

they're happy to help! Sun is super generous to provide his own funding and give it to fundraisers and sales, whatever it takes to support the kiddos.

And instead of festivals at school, everyone gathers for the annual fair. Sun and Moon are also big parts of that too, providing entertainment.

#answered ask #dca!serial killer au #sk boys #fundraisers

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gentlebeardsbarngrill · 2 months

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03/03/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; OurFlagTurns2; AdoptOurCrew Rhys Cameo; Samba Schutte; Vico Ortiz; Nathan Foad; In Soup Now Fundraiser; Watch Party Reminders; Wrecked;Newark Newark; Our Flag Means RTL; Fan Spotlight; Taika Cast Card; Captain's Orders Cont'd; TX OFMD Meet Up - Well and Truly Docked; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Tonight's Taika

#OurFlagTurns2!

Happy 2nd OFMD Anniversary Crew!

So many things were going on for the 2nd Anniversary! @AdoptOurCrew were putting out questions/prompts to increase community engagement! Did you all send any stories their way?

Thank you to @PaulineKnip for catching the #OurFlagTurns2 tag trending!

@adoptourcrew was kind enough to get the crew a Cameo from our esteemed Captain! They were having some technical difficulties getting the full thing uploaded, so I've included it here for now, but you can access it via their @AdoptOurCrew Tiktok

== Fundraisers ==

In Soup Now is now live! Interested in helping raise funds for Team Haven Belfast to support their work to feed unhoused neighbors? Check out: InSoupNow: In Aid of Team HAVEN for WeeJohnWonday

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

== Samba Schutte ==

Samba posted a couple of things in honor of the 2 year anniversary of OFMD in his Stories!

== Vico Ortiz ==

Just some photos of Vico and what they've been up to lately!

== Nathan Foad ==

Nathan has a bunch of stuff on BBC this week! Please give some a watch to support him!

Monday 4th 11:15pm - BBC2 - "Our Flag Means Death; s2e5'

Tuesday 5th 10pm - BBC2 - 'Newark, Newark' Ep 1

On iplayer (&repeating tonight, 11:40 pm bbc3) ' Things you should have done' ep two.

== Watch Party Reminders ==

For all current watch parties, check out Watch Party Calendar

Mar 4 - Mar 8: Wrecked Season 1

Season 1 watch from March 4th to March 8th.

Season 2 watch from March 11th to March 15th.

Season 3 watch from March 18th to March 22nd.

Hashtags:

#WreckedPirates

#SaveOFMD

#RhysDarbyFaction

= Mar 5: NewarkNewark with @adoptourcrew =

Please join @adoptourcrew for a @NewarkNewark watch party on March 5th at 10 pm GMT/ 2pm PS / 5pm EST!

== Deutsche Nachrichten / German News ==

Twitter-Watch-Along von Our Flag Means Death:

Streamt Staffel 2 ab dem 15. März.

Samstag, 9.3. 17:00 Folgen 1 bis 3,

Dienstag, 12.3. 20:00 Folgen 4 & 5,

Mittwoch, 13.3. 20:00 Folgen 6 & 7,

Donnerstag 14.3. 20:00 Folgen 8 & 9,

Freitag, 15.3. 17:30 Folge 10

Und anschließend bingen wir zusammen Staffel 2!

Schaut und tweetet mit!

Hashtag:

OurFlag RTL.

== Fan Spotlight ==

== Cast Cards! ==

Our crew-mate @melvisik is back again, this time with a Taika trading card! So glad to see Taika joining the rest of the cast!

== Captain's Orders ==

Two more of our crew-mates, @amuseoffyre and @pehmokoira were kind enough to share their #CaptainsOrders pictures with us! Thanks for getting out everyone, even if the weather wasn't perfect!

== In Person Events! ==

TX: Sept 21/22 - Well and Truly Docked on the Strand Hey Crew! Some of our crew-mates in TX are holding an in-person OFMD Fan Gathering on Galveston Island in Galveston, TX - September 21/22! Learn more! For tickets, visit Truly Docked 2024

== Love Notes ==

Hey lovelies. It's been two years. Two years since OFMD started the journey to bringing all of us together. I know a lot of us are later to the party than others, but I just wanna say thank you to OFMD for helping so many of us feel loved, and included, and safe-- and for this fandom for always being so welcoming.

Whether you've been here since the first trailer was shown, or since the cancellation of s2, you are part of this found family and we're so happy to have you.

I know a lot of folks are worried right now, and we've been going for so long, but we have something to celebrate today! 2 years! Can you believe it?

I've had more fun in the last half a year with you all, than I have in nearly a decade. The love and support I feel in this community is so strong that I feel like there's hope for just about anything. I fully believe we're going to get our s3 at this point because everything we're doing means something. This show is all about queer joy, and we need that on tv, and we're showing everyone exactly what it means to us. It's gonna happen. We're manifesting that shit.

You are wonderful lovelies, every last one of you. Don't ever forget that. I hope you have a fulfilling, restful evening/day, and everything good you could need happens for you. Stay strong, we made it this far, we'll make it through <3.

= Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika =

Sorry but I can't speak with these gifs here:

Fingers. Palpable Fingers.

Darby Courtesy of @wastingyourgum

Taika Courtesy of @waititi-tho

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