Seriously, folks. Thank you. As one of the people who scrambled over our budget, who tried to figure out if we had enough funds to provide food at a convention party, who helped brainstorm ways we could squeeze out enough to start the Kindred and Parallax awards, and as someone who had a very upsetting end of week last week -- well, this is just immensely cheering. Thanks so much. "The Carl Brandon Society has released a statement on donations made on June 13th and 14th...the short version of it is that on those days, the society received: * Over $8,200 for its general fund; * Over $5,000 for its Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship; * Over $3,600 for the Con or Bust initiative (which I did not pledge match for here, but which I wholeheartedly support, so, w00t!). So, all told, around $16,900 raised for the Carl Brandon Society and the programs it supports in a couple of days. Those donations will now go to help an organization whose mission is “to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction.” And extra-special thanks with a big fat cherry on the top to John Scalzi.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:07 +0000
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