Fandom Trumps Hate

If you are the high bidder on one or more auctions, sit tight! Bidders will receive an email tonight or tomorrow listing all the auctions they won.

Before you make your donation(s), double-check the auction post to make sure you’re donating to a group the creator chose! Many leave it up to the bidder, but some creators signed up hoping to generate donations for groups that are particularly meaningful to them, so please respect their choices. Make your donations directly to the charity - none of the money goes through either us or the creator! If they have a space to say the reason for the donation or make it in honor of someone, we’d appreciate if you mention Fandom Trumps Hate.

If all your creators allow donations to the same group, you are welcome to combine your bids into one donation. If you have a large bid and want to spread the love around, you can also split it into smaller donations to multiple groups (as long as they’re all on the creator’s list)! All that we ask is that, when you email us your proof of donation, you specify exactly how much to each group goes with each auction. And yes, you are allowed to donate more than your bid, but this is definitely not required!

Once you’ve made your donations, email us proof - a screenshot of the donation screen with your personal information blacked out works best. We just need to see the name of the organization and the amount donated. Once we receive that, we’ll let your creator know that you’ve donated and give you each other’s email addresses so you can discuss your fanwork!

Proof of donation is due to us by March 8 at 8pm. If we don’t receive your proof by then, the auction will be awarded to the next highest bidder.

If you have any questions or problems during the donation process, please contact us via email at [email protected]! We are a group of fans working together to run this event, and email is the best way for us all to be able to see a record of our communications. Contacting us on Tumblr or Dreamwidth is not guaranteed to get a response in time!

If you are a creator whose auction received at least one bid, we will let you know as soon as your high bidder has made the donation! If they don’t donate by March 8, we will let you know that the auction is being passed on to the second highest bidder.

If you are a creator whose auction received more than one bid, we will contact you within the next couple of days to see if you’re interested in offering a second fanwork to the second-highest bidder for their bid amount. This is in no way required! Please only make this offer if you are sure you have time to create both fanworks by the end of the year. Creators may make up to one second-chance per auction. If you are the second-highest bidder on an auction, please do not contact the creator directly about this. If the creator chooses to make this offer, we will let you know.

If you didn’t win any of your auctions but still want to support these organizations, you are welcome to make a donation in FTH’s name! Let us know about it and we’ll put you on our list of “Just Because” donations and count it toward the total amount raised by FTH this year.