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GRIMATHON: Raising money for a IPV survivor

Posted by grimachu on

You can donate via https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JDesborough
Or: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/grimathon

A very dear friend of mine was recently assaulted by her partner and spent several days in the hospital. While there, she reached out to me for help, and I did my level best to get her into a safe place and to put my friends and acquaintances to work to provide care and assistance.

Everyone stepped up, without exception, offering help, advice, even money.

At this point, we have her in safe and secure accommodation, at least for the next month. I am, however, tapped out (and beyond) of the money and resources that I can throw at the problem.

That’s where you come in.

I would like to secure accommodation for her for at least another month, and to help provide for groceries, medication, etc, while she is unable to work and is in recovery (she’s in the USA, so this is obviously more of a problem than elsewhere). It would be nice to put a dent in the medical bills and help her secure more long-term accommodation as well.

To that end, starting at midday UK time, I am going to do a ‘Grimathon’ stream to try and raise money. I’ll have various people on, do various activities, and no doubt end up humiliating myself for donations. We’ll probably end up discussing all sorts of things, and since this is my community, we’ll also be talking about games a lot, and maybe do a few flip-throughs.

Because of the delicacy of the situation, a degree of trust is necessary here. I cannot disclose the who, the precise where, or other details. If you cannot or will not help under such circumstances of security and trauma concerns, I understand completely, but please at least spread the word or come and hang out.

You can donate via https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JDesborough
Or: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/grimathon

Q&A

Q: Why isn’t this on your main channel with the bigger audience?

A: Because mixing streaming with regular content tends to negatively affect your channel performance and thus income. In the potential long term I can help more (and other) people if the channel income stays higher overall. Plus this is a one-off.

Q: Why can’t you give us more details?

A: Because she doesn’t want me to, and her needs have to come first here. Wanting privacy and control is not uncommon in these situations as it has been explained to me by experts in the field.

Q: Which is the best way to donate?

The PayPal link is best, because of immediacy, but I will understand if you don’t want to donate to me directly, though I will be as transparent as possible.

#RPG – ZELART Scholarship for 2020-2021 is up and running!

Posted by grimachu on

Fundraising has begun for the 2020-2021 Zelart Scholarship.

The long and the short of it is that each year we raise money for struggling genre artists, or those currently in education. This year more people are struggling than ever. We’d love your donations, but we also accept art donations to be sold as stock art to fundraise for next year.

You can get some of the details on this blog, or at the fundraising link.

We’re also looking for entrants, so if you ARE a genre artist who is hard up or in education, you can enter for a chance to get a £500 payout to help you out (payment is usually in February).

To enter you need to send a piece of (at least) 300 dpi, A6 art, black and white or colour, to grim@post-mort.com marked as a Zelart Entry.

This should be genre art (SF, horror, fantasy etc) by you and free to be re-sold as stock art to help raise money for next year. A winner will be chosen by the end of February and paid out.

Please spread the word both to people who can enter, and those who might be able to donate art or money to the project.

Thanks!

DarkZel Scholarship 2015

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gcqsngdzsnf6vqutl3xpThe Darkzel Scholarship for this year has commenced.

You can give money to the scholarship fund HERE.

There’s more information in the Darkzel scholarship tab at the top of this page, but here’s the brief rundown as we’re not only soliciting donations towards the scholarship fund, but also entries and applications for the scholarship!

The Darkzel Scholarship

Zachary Harris, ‘Zel’ or ‘Darkzel’, was a friend of mine who worked for me on a number of projects from Blood! to Cthentacle as well as side projects such as a comic book and stock art. We were planning all sorts of projects together and he worked with me for some years until his untimely death while he was teaching English in Korea.

In this business, you often end up working with young artists and so it was with Zel. As a result we forged a friendship and I helped him pay his way through education and to blossom into a professional and very skilled artist.

What better way, then, to commemorate him by establishing a scholarship in his name to further support new, young artists? So that’s what I decided to do.

Young SF&F artists often have a hard time in an education system which favours ‘fine art’ or ‘design’, neither of which SF&F easily fit into. Art is also, often, a hard career to enter and to succeed at with expensive supplies and other issues that stand in a person’s way.

126181How it Works

Each year I consolidate the money raised by Zel’s stock art and the donations and winners from previous years and put it into a lump sum, as well as running a fundraiser to raise the scholarship funding to a more useful level (typically $500). Each year, then, more art accumulates and in theory the income rises year on year as the art is added to.

This year sales raised $60. I hope donations can add onto this and get us to at least $600.

You Want to Help?

You can…

  • Donate Money at the IndieGoGo fundraiser.
  • Donate Art (Pieces should meet the same criteria as entries.
  • Publicise (Post on forums, blogs, social media etc).
  • Buy some art, the sales of which go to fund the scholarship.

145470You Want a Scholarship?

The Fundraiser will close out on February the 1st next year and judging may finish then or continue until the end of February, depending on the number of entries received in that period.

  • Entries need to be presented in electronic format, submitted to my email address (grim AT postmort DOT demon DOT co DOT uk).
  • Entries should be at least A6 size at 300-600 dpi.
  • B&W or colour is fine.
  • Content should be Science Fiction or Fantasy related – or at least ‘genre’ related. Horror is also fine, modern adventure/spy/historical adventure, pulp, steampunk and so on is all fine too. (‘Adult’ illustration is OK, but full on erotic/pornographic cannot be accepted).
  • You must be in full-time education at High School, College or University. Entries from people in reduced circumstances (long term unemployment, disabled etc) will be considered but the scholarship is primarily intended to help young up-and-coming artists. You’ll need to provide confirmation of your status either way.
  • You must be payable via Paypal.