{"id":74183,"date":"2025-11-20T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/?p=74183"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:49:34","slug":"are-you-ready-for-fortnight-the-season-of-thanks-giving-at-thf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/are-you-ready-for-fortnight-the-season-of-thanks-giving-at-thf\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for Fortnight: The Season of Thanks &#038; Giving at THF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74241 aligncenter lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fortnight-750x250-1-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74241 aligncenter lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fortnight-750x250-1-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fortnight-750x250-1-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fortnight-750x250-1.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fortnight: The Season of Thanks &amp; Giving is The Haiku Foundation\u2019s annual fundraising drive<\/strong>, lasting from Thanksgiving to Saint Nicholas Day. This year, it occurs from November 27 to December 6. During this period, we post daily special presentations highlighting the work we accomplished in the past year to thank our generous patrons.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Haiku Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funded in its entirety by community donations and is not funded by memberships, fees, or endowment income.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your support enables us to pursue our three-fold mission of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ARCHIVING<\/strong> our first century of English-language haiku<\/li>\n<li><strong>EXPANDING<\/strong> possibilities for our second century &amp; beyond<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEEKING<\/strong> active exchange with haiku poets &amp; scholars around the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also allows us to continue providing access to important and exclusive archives, educational and informational features, interactive features, and other haiku-related information.<\/p>\n<p>We invite everyone to join us in celebrating our 2025 accomplishments by reading our Fortnight flashback posts and by furthering our continued success with a contribution our Fortnight fundraiser drive.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate your thoughtful consideration of THF and our mission. If you have any questions about ways you can support THF, please <a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/contact\/\"><strong>contact us<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnight is The Haiku Foundation\u2019s annual fundraising drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":37130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,426],"tags":[793,96,425],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-74183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-thf-fundraiser","tag-celebration-fortnight","tag-the-haiku-foundation","tag-thf-fundraiser","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are you ready for Fortnight: The Season of Thanks &amp; Giving at THF? - The Haiku Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/are-you-ready-for-fortnight-the-season-of-thanks-giving-at-thf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are you ready for Fortnight: The Season of Thanks &amp; Giving at THF? 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