AboutSF is sending out our fund-raising letters this week. These letters go out to our founding donors and partners. Now seemed a good time to mention some of our recent fund-raising activities on the blog.

We've once again been selected as the recipient of proceeds from the charity auction at ConQuesT in Kansas City on memorial weekend 2009. Thanks go out to our friends at ConQuesT. If you're in the KC area and love SF, don't miss this wonderful convention.

The novels course created by AboutSF volunteers for KU Continuing Education also resulted in some additional funds. The course-creation payment was donated to AboutSF.

Also, this week we heard back from the National Book Foundation "Innovations in Reading" Prize. Sadly, we were not one of the winners of their grant this year. There were over 100 applicants for roughly 5 spots. Still, it was worth the time to try. AboutSF especially thanks David Brin and Adam Frisch for their letters of support to the award committee.

- Nate