Hi everyone,

we're back for our EIGHTH (yes, really!) year of the FTH auction. We're going to pin this post and update it over the course of the auction season. But for now, we'd like to share the list of this year's supported nonprofit organizations and the calendar for this year's auction (below.)

March 5th: bidding opens

March 9th: bidding closes

March 16th 19th: proof of high bid donations due

March 21st 24th: proof of 2nd chance donations due

Back in 2021, as we were pulling together the fifth FTH auction, we joked together behind the scenes about how great it felt that the name of our auction was no longer quite as on-the-nose as it had been in our first few years. But it's 2024, and in all likelihood 45 will be back on the ballot: just one of the many sobering and scary things we're facing down this year.

But for the past seven years, we've had the privilege of watching thousands of fans -- yes, literally thousands -- dedicate their time and money and energy to the twin projects of sending support to some amazing organizations while building and strengthening community ties within fandom. Now, more than ever, that kind of community-building is essential.

We hope you'll join us, and join one another, in sending much-needed financial support to these amazing organizations and in putting more joy and beauty out into the world in the form of fanworks. These are dark times, but when we join together we can make them a little brighter.