Crowdfunding: Connecting Creators and Patrons

Voting is now open for the Other Project category of the Rose and Bay Awards. These awards honor excellence in cyberfunded creativity (aka crowdfunding), and this category recognizes exceptional works that don't fit neatly into other categories. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about these awards, visit the 2025 Rose & Bay Landing Page.

The 2024 winner of the Other Project category of the Rose and Bay Awards was "Moonlight Cottage ASMR" by Diane.

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Nominations are now CLOSED for the Other Project category of the Rose & Bay Award.

Nominations are now OPEN for the Other Project category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes diverse media. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Icons and banners are available to help spread the word. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Other Project category, "Moonlight Cottage ASMR" by Diane are not eligible.

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Let's do a friending meme to ring in the new year! Lots of folks dust off their blogs in January, and snowflake_challenge is running (one of Dreamwidth's biggest events). You can answer here, and if you like, copy your answers on your own blog to attract more attention.

Your Username:
Where You're From:
Your Other Online Venues:

How long have you been on crowdfunding here?
Are you a creator, fan, or patron?
What kind of crowdfunding interests you?
Do you use Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Patreon, or other crowdfunding sites?

What is your blog like?
How busy is it?
What topics do you post about most often?
What kinds of friends are you looking for?

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is a celebration of the platform's anniversary, running April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities.

Are you posting about crowdfunding? You can crosspost those entries here. Are you doing anything for Three Weeks in your blog or other community? Post a comment about that to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires.




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Voting is now CLOSED for the Art category of the Rose and Bay Awards.  Thank you for your time and attention.







Voting is now open for the Art category of the Rose and Bay Awards. These awards honor excellence in cyberfunded creativity (aka crowdfunding), and this category recognizes exceptional artists. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about this award, visit the 2024 landing page.

The winner for the 2024 award season is "Anubis. Thin Places - vol. 2 of the artbook" by Joanna Karpowicz.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Art category, "The Tale of Tal: a Neanderthal graphic novel" by Gianpaolo is not eligible this year.

What Is the Rose and Bay Award?

The Rose and Bay Award focuses on a growing business model known as "crowdfunding" or "cyberfunded creativity," which directly connects creative people and patrons of the arts online. This award recognizes exemplary projects and enthusiastic patrons. It currently features six categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron. (Other Project includes any cyberfunded creativity that isn't art, fiction, poetry, or webcomic -- or that spans more than one category -- such as movies, music, etc. The categories and their handlers are listed below:

The award period for eligible activities spans January 1-December 31, 2023.
The nomination period spans January 1-January 31, 2024.
The voting period spans February 1-February 29, 2024.


These are the handlers for the 2024 award season:

Art: ysabetwordsmith
Fiction: ysabetwordsmith
Poetry: nsfwords
Webcomic: nsfwords
Other Project: fuzzyred
Patron: fuzzyred

Voting Rules

1) Voters are encouraged (but not required) to browse the nominees before making a final decision; that's what the links are for, and the purpose of this award is to promote the splendor of crowdfunded projects. If you have not already explored the nominees, please refer back to the Art nomination post.

2) Voting will take place via Dreamwidth non-transparent polling in this community, open to all. Everyone is eligible to vote; if you do not have a Dreamwidth account, you may leave a comment below with your full name and your vote. In each category, you may vote for as many entries as you consider worthy of the award. (There may need to be more than one poll question per category, and runoffs, in categories with a high number of nominees.) You may vote for your own project, or yourself as a patron.

3) Winners will be announced after the polling is completed.


How You Can Help

The Rose and Bay Award depends on your enthusiasm to make it a success. Here are some ways you can help that happen:

1) Cast your vote! Watch for the voting polls to appear for the other projects, and vote in those too.

2) Promote the Rose and Bay Award by blogging about it, emailing your friends, posting it on social networks, or any other method you can imagine. Everyone is encouraged to spread the word as far as possible whether you are a creator, a donor, or a curious bystander. Here is some art for promoting the Rose and Bay Award.

3) If you're a patron or audience member, link to your favorite nominees and then direct people to the relevant voting pages.