Come up with a crazy fund raising idea and just do it.We have a PayPal account with the email address of Remember, we are part of OSFCI, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and many employers will match donations. We need your help! If you would like to help us help writers here are few things you could do: The Petrey Fund Needs Help!Įach year, the Petrey Fund pays out more in scholarships and grants than our income from fund raising. You will be asked to select a charity and the percentage you want to donate.
It’s easy! When you are listing an item, you can turn on the option to “Donate a portion to charity”. Did you know that charity listings often get more bids and higher prices than regular eBay listings? Boost your sales and support our scholarship while you’re at it! Plus eBay gives back to you too, with a fee credit on your basic selling fees. Just designate our organization to receive 10-100% of your final sale price the next time you list something great. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund when you sell on eBay. So, you can support our mission when you sell on eBay. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund is part of the PayPal Giving Works program on eBay. The fund is administered by us, with the support of Portland fandom, and is legally a part of Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc., a tax-exempt organization. Copies are available from us at the address above. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the Fund. Cash donations can be made through PayPal to the email address: If you have any items to donate, please contact us at:Įmail: also produced a book, Gifts of Blood, which contains all of Sue’s stories. We are always looking for donations of items large and small to be used as egg prizes or to be auctioned, and money is never refused. Donations from conventions and individuals are also an important source of income for the fund. Since then, money to fund the scholarship has been mainly raised by auctions at conventions and more recently by selling “eggs” for prizes at Or圜on. The original seed money was raised for flowers at Sue’s funeral but the money could not be used for that purpose.
At the present time, the fund annually awards scholarships to both the Clarion & Clarion West workshops and also supports an instructor at Clarion West as a Petrey Fellow. This was an event she had hoped to attend herself but was unable to do so because of financial reasons.
Since her death in 1980, we have raised money to annually send aspiring writers to the Clarion Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop. This scholarship is a memorial to Susan, a friend of ours, and a member of the Portland Science Fiction Society.
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