#supported org

Another one of our supported orgs this year has reached out to express their gratitude for all the support you've sent their way. Here is the message we've been asked to share!

This is a great moment to review our list of supported nonprofits and consider which ones are most appealing to you! (Here is a post that collects the individual write-ups we did of each of those orgs.)

Some important notes:

Some creators will have selected a subset of organizations from this list, and you'll need to honor those choices.

There are also a few dozen auctions in which the creator has listed an outside organization in addition to the ones from our list. Be sure to follow the links from the creator's page to learn more about these orgs!

Every year, we put together a focused list of small, progressive nonprofits that are making the world a better place on a very small budget. When you participate in the auction, you have a chance to help those amazing organizations out while also enriching your fandom!

This year's organizations work toward a range of causes: resisting censorship, journalistic integrity, civil rights, disability rights, reproductive rights, human rights, humanitarian aid, environmental protection, and creating leaders for democracy around the world.

We'll be posting more detailed profiles of each of these organizations over the next few weeks.

Bellingcat

Congo Leadership Initiative

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Disability Law United

Environmental Integrity Project

Fight for the Future Education Fund

Freedom to Read Foundation

Global Project Against Hate And Extremism

Hope for Ukraine

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda

Middle East Children’s Alliance

National Network to End Domestic Violence

Never Again Action

Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Umbrella: LGBT Orgs

As we've done for the last four years, FTH is once again offering one “umbrella” category. This year our umbrella category is community organizations serving and supporting vulnerable members of the LGBT community. You are welcome to support your own local grassroots organization. We are also highlighting the following exemplary organizations working in communities where the need is especially acute:

Brave Space Alliance

Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc

Sherlock’s Homes Foundation

TransFamily Support Services

TransQueerPueblo

or a similar organization working in your community!

Our FTH participants have shown us year after year that they are passionate about the causes we support. Your passion and care for those in need is truly inspiring!

In case our selected nonprofit organizations don't cover all the issues people care about, we also allow you to write in an organization of your choosing to support with your FTH auction. Your mods will research and vet these organizations before the auction goes live to make sure that they are real, reputable organizations, and that their mission is in line with our values. We use online research and tools like Charity Navigator to assess organizations. We don't allow write-ins for fundraising campaigns such as GoFundMe pages, where money is sent to private individuals with no accountability.

At this time, several people have written in Care for Gaza as the beneficiary of their auction. After doing our research, we have decided not to accept Care for Gaza as a write-in. We were unable to find any public information about how donations are spent. They may very well be doing good work, and relief for Gaza is certainly a cause we care about, but this group simply does not meet the threshold of accountability for us to officially support it.

We have selected Middle East Children's Alliance for an organization that is active on the ground in Gaza. You can read about their activities on their website. We chose them because they are well-regarded and proven effective, while also being small enough to feel the impact of our support.

Every year, we put together a focused list of small, progressive nonprofits that are making the world a better place on a very small budget. When you participate in the auction, you have a chance to help those amazing organizations out while also enriching your fandom!

This year’s list of supported organizations is permalinked at the top of our tumblr, but we have also made more in-depth introductions to each of them. This post contains links to all of those introductory posts, so you can find them easily.

We’re posting this now to help creators figure out which organizations they want to support with their fanworks. We’ll also be sure to reblog this post a few times during bidding and just after it closes, so bidders can start to think about which organizations they want to donate to.

Bellingcat

Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda

Life After Hate

Middle East Children's Alliance

National Network to End Domestic Violence

Never Again Action

Razom

Sherlock's Homes Foundation

Spread the Vote

Violence Policy Center

VoteRiders

Environmental Organizations

Climate crisis is here, and it's urgent. Rising global temperatures and shrinking wildlands have caused a cascade of disasters for humans and non-humans alike. But although some of the effects of climate change are beyond the point of reversal, many can still be rolled back or avoided entirely -- if we all work together. Thousands of hands-on environmental groups are working to preserve, restore and protect their own small corner of the planet -- and together, they are mitigating and even healing some of the damage.

While important work is being done by large-scale environmental organizations such as the NRDC and the Nature Conservancy, much of the most vital work in environmental preservation and renewal is taking place at the local level. Smaller organizations, working on a particular habitat or ecosystem (or even a particular element of an ecosystem) can pay attention to local conditions, and work with local communities, in a manner that larger organizations rarely achieve.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered a massive humanitarian crisis. In the yearly two years since that initial military assault, more than ten million Ukrainians have been displaced: nearly 6.5 million are living as refugees throughout Europe, while almost 4 million remain within their country's borders but are displaced from their homes due to ongoing violence and the destruction of basic infrastructure.

Although the war was initially met with a near-global outpouring of support for Ukraine, other more recent crises have captured the attention of activists and humanitarians around the world, and the support and resources that Ukraine so desperately needs have been drying up.

Razom provides critical humanitarian war relief and recovery to address the most urgent needs as they evolve via an end-to-end procurement and delivery system that places all aid directly into the hands of the people in Ukraine. They also help local Ukrainian volunteer organizations provide immediate humanitarian assistance to the people affected by the war, working with trusted organizations that understand the local needs firsthand and have a proven track record of humanitarian service. They advocate for Ukraine by educating about policies that strengthen and support Ukraine. They have built trusted connections with civic leaders, activists, and elected officials in Ukraine and the US to relay critical information to the public, media, businesses, and government officials.  

Razom means “together” in Ukrainian, the name serving as a constant reminder of the community that it takes to create, build and do, to stay the path towards a more prosperous and democratic Ukraine.  

Over the past two decades, the American public's faith in mainstream news organizations has dropped precipitously -- in a Gallup survey last year, more than half of respondents indicated that they believe news organizations actively mislead the public. The major organs of mainstream media have made many choices that have cost them the public's trust, often relying on the "both sides" model of reporting at the expense of a full and truthful picture and treating politics as a horse race.

But these organizations are also under significant pressure as they struggle to adapt to the radical technological shifts in our media environment. These shifts have cut into traditional revenue streams, driving news organizations toward the sort of reporting that will generate revenue. They have also created both the possibility of and the need for new approaches to reporting, and many legacy news outlets have struggled to adapt.

Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists that uses cutting-edge technology to engage in fact-checking and open-source intelligence investigation outside the apparatus of major journalistic publications. In addition to doing their own reporting, Bellingcat designs and shares verifiable methods of ethical digital investigation. By publishing walkthroughs to open source research methods and holding tailored training sessions on their use for journalists, human rights activists, and members of the public, they’re broadening the scope and application of open source research. Their research is regularly referenced by international media and has been cited by several courts and investigative missions.

Operating in a unique field where advanced technology, forensic research, journalism, transparency and accountability come together, Bellingcat believes in the need for collaboration and has partnered with news organisations across the globe. Likewise, Bellingcat’s Global Authentication Project (GAP) seeks to harness the power of the open source community by nurturing and encouraging a network of volunteer investigators. Their Justice & Accountability unit, meanwhile, seeks to demonstrate the viability of online open source information in judicial processes.