OTW Selected As Designated Charity for Escapade 19

[francescacoppa.livejournal.com]

The OTW is delighted to announce that it has been chosen as the recipient charity for Escapade 19. Escapade is one of the longest running slash cons, held annually in southern California since 1990, and known for the quality of its panel discussions, its vidshow, and its charity art auction. Escapade runs March 6- 8, 2009, and places are still available.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW blog.

Comments

[laura-holt-pi.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, in the past, they have helped genuine charities. Don't you feel at all guilty about taking money to feed your private and distinctly non-essential projects that could otherwise be used for people in genuine need?

Sometimes, you lot make FanLib look like Robin Hood.

[francescacoppa.livejournal.com]

It wasn't our decision, but we're certainly grateful that Escapade chose us as this year's recipient.

For what its worth, they said they chose us partly because we've been working to set up a zine preservation project, focusing on many of the zine collections in and around Escapade. And you're right--preserving zines and zine culture may not be as important as, I dunno, Prop 8 or feeding children, but not all nonprofits can have the same mission. And Fanlib isn't a nonprofit at all; as a commercial, for profit entity, their own profit was their number one goal, and they closed the minute it wasn't worth it to them. So its not really a fair comparison.