Since Arisia was founded in 1988, we have donated more than $84,000 to other groups.
Also Arisia has matched Westin "Jean Fines" donations since 2012.
Group | Date | Amount | Purpose |
---|---|---|---|
Medford Public Library [1] | Jul 2021 | $2,500 | Expanding their SF collection. |
Seattle Books to Prisoner Program [2] | Jan 2020 | $1,000 | |
Chicago Books to Women in Prison [3] | Jan 2020 | $750 | |
Clarion West [4] | Jan 2020 | $2,000 | Pocket Workshop Publication |
Double Visions [5] | Jan 2020 | $1,250 | A Sci-Fi musical |
CrossingCon / Emfozzing Enterprises [6] | Nov 2019 | $1,200 | |
Berwick Public Library [7] | Aug 2019 | $600 | To improve the quality and variety of their Science Fiction titles |
Norman E. Day School in Westford, MA [8] | Apr 2019 | $1,500 | For the purchase of SF/F and relevant science texts for the school's library |
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo [9] | Mar 2019 | $964 | Help defray costs of bringing guests to the 2018 expo |
Boston Teen Author Festival [10] | June 2018 | $1,000 | Help support their 2018 Festival via Kickstarter[1] [11] |
Locus Science Fiction Foundation [12] | May 2017 | $2,800 | Help support their 2017 Locus Awards event |
Strange Horizons [13] | Jan 2017 | $1,000 | Help publish the first issue of Strange Horizons presents Sub-Q. |
Balticon [14] | Mar 2017 | $3,879.91 | Help pay for bringing back past Balticon GOHs who were also Arisia GOHs |
Friends of the Brea Library [15] | Mar 2016 | $2,500 | Help develop the Brea Library's science fiction collection and bring an SF author to speak at a free event. |
Albacon [16] | Feb 2016 | $895 | Assist with publishing their Souvenir Book.[1] [11] |
Locus Science Fiction Foundation [12] | Dec 2015 | $2,500 | Help support their 2016 Locus Awards event |
NESFA [17] | Sept 2015 | $1,000 | Not a grant - a matching donation to their "New Voices Fund". | SF Outreach Project [18] | Mar 2014 | $1,800 | Support of a project to distribute free SF books. |
JOFcon [19] | May 2014 | $500 | Help support their first convention |
Locus Science Fiction Foundation [12] | Jan 2014 | $2,000 | Help support their 2014 Locus Awards event |
DarkoverCon [20] | Sept 2013 | $5,000 | Emergency donation[1] [11] to DarkoverCon / TSFS |
Carl Brandon Society [21] | March 2013 | $2,000 | Funds to support publication of an Octavia Butler e-book |
Brookline Public Library [22] | March 2013 | $3,000 | Funding to expand SF&F in their Young Adult media collections. |
Operation Hammond [23] | March 2012 | $2,500 | Startup funds for their project to bring first aid and emergency services to conventions. |
Readercon [24] | March 2012 | $2,050 | Support for their 2012 convention. |
Clarion West Writers Workshop [4] | December 2011 | $1,900 | Support for their 2012 Summer Reading Series. |
JV Fletcher Library [25] | December 2011 | $3,000 | Books for the Westford Public Library's Young Adult collection |
Speculative Literature Foundation [26] | February 2011 | $2,500 | Seed money to support their first convention (FOGCon) |
Carl Brandon Society [21] | December 2010 | $4,000 | Funds to provide cash awards for their Parallax and Kindred awards (2008 and 2009) |
Randolph Community Middle School Library [27] | March 2010 | $1,100 | Funds to purchase new SF&F books for library. |
Interstitial Arts Foundation [28] | January 2010 | $3,000 | Funding to assist with publishing Interfictions 2 [29] and supporting their website. |
Brookline Public Library [22] | October 2009 | $3,000 | Funding to expand their SF&F print and media collections. |
Jumpcon Orphans | July 2008 | $1,000 | Along with United Fan Con, Arisia helped sponsor a day of activities for fans who came to Boston for Jumpcon, which was canceled at the last minute. [1] [11] [2] [30] |
PiCon [31] | August 2007 | $3,000 | Additional funding for a new science fiction convention in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
Friends of the Library [32] | August 2006 | $2,500 | To help the Kenai Community Library in Alaska purchase science fiction books, magazines, and DVDs and to host a seminar on science fiction with a local author, Dana Stabenow [33] (photo [34]). |
JerseyDevilCon | January 2003 | $2,000 | To help cover their debts. |
Boston Tea Party | January 2003 | $825 | To assist them to bring a guest speaker to their Smallville Fan Convention. |
The Lite Circle, Inc | January 2002 | $2,000 | Assist with publishing "Through A Glass Darkly" [35]. |
The Gaylactic Network | November 2001 | $1,269 | To help them with running Gaylaxicon |
Vassar Non-Human Student Organization (NSO) | February 2001 | $1,000 | To help them with running No Such Convention (NonCon) |
Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association | January 2001 | $800 | To help them with running Vericon. |
MassFen | 2000 | $750 plus $750 matching funds | Starting a fannish newsletter. |
EuroCon | October 1999 | $1,000 | To promote interaction between the North American and European SF communities. |
5Con | February 1999 | $1,250, plus $750 matching funds | To assist with running 5Con |
Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) | November 1997 | $300 | For publications. |
Science-fiction Conventioneers of UMass | November 1995 | $750 | To assist with running NotJustAnotherCon |
MIT Science Fiction Society [36][3] [37] | 1994 | ??? | First grant funded by Arisia. |
This list is probably not complete. Everything prior to 2006 was found by searching old, incomplete records.
Footnotes
Since 2012, Arisia has matched "Jeans Fine" donations to a charity made by employees of the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel made during Arisias. In that time, we've raised slightly over $1,400.
Convention | Organization | Amount |
---|---|---|
A'20 | THE Refugee AND Immigrant Center FOR Education AND Legal Services [38] | $110 |
A'18 |
Comic Book
Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) [39] |
$230 |
A'17 |
Massachusetts chapter of the ACLU [40] | $204 |
A'16 |
Planned Parenthood [41] | $200 |
A'15 |
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) [42] | $160 |
A'14 |
Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) [43] | $190 |
A'13 | Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) [44] | $116 |
A'12 |
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) [45] | $216 |
Links
[1] https://medfordlibrary.org/
[2] https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/
[3] https://chicagobwp.org/
[4] http://www.clarionwest.org/
[5] https://www.doublevisionthemusical.com/
[6] https://crossingscon.org/
[7] https://www.berwick.lib.me.us/
[8] https://www.westfordk12.us/ds
[9] http://www.micexpo.org/
[10] http://www.bostonteenauthorfestival.com/
[11] https://corp.arisia.org/grant-recipients#tsfs
[12] http://www.lsff.net/
[13] http://strangehorizons.com/
[14] https://www.balticon.org/
[15] http://www.friendsofthebrealibrary.org/
[16] http://www.albacon.org
[17] http://nesfa.org/
[18] http://science-fiction-outreach.org/
[19] http://jofcon.wordpress.com/
[20] http://www.darkovercon.org
[21] http://www.carlbrandon.org
[22] http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/
[23] http://www.operationhammond.com/
[24] http://www.readercon.org/
[25] http://www.westfordlibrary.org/
[26] http://fogcon.org/
[27] http://rcms.randolph.k12.ma.us/pages/index
[28] http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/
[29] http://www.interstitialarts.org/projects/about-interfictions/interfictions-2
[30] https://corp.arisia.org/grant-recipients#orphans
[31] https://web.archive.org/web/20071007071925/http://pi-con.org:80/
[32] http://www.kenailibrary.org/friends_new.htm
[33] https://web.archive.org/web/20070820230439/http://stabenow.com/2007/03/01/march-2007-newsletter
[34] https://www.flickr.com/photos/danastabenow/410267218/
[35] http://www.litecircle.net/#tagd%22
[36] http://www.mit.edu/%7Emitsfs/
[37] https://corp.arisia.org/grant-recipients#mitsfs
[38] https://www.raicestexas.org/
[39] http://cbldf.org
[40] https://www.aclum.org
[41] https://www.plannedparenthood.org
[42] http://www.lls.org/
[43] https://www.gbfb.org/
[44] https://www.mspca.org
[45] https://www.massgeneral.org/
[46] https://corp.arisia.org/taxonomy/term/1