Foundation to Decrease World Suck

project · in 18 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 1 · 2011: 6 · 2012: 8 · 2013: 3

Threads

• Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund, relaunched as the Fund for Decreasing Suck Levels Worldwide (2007) — stage, retro, 2007–2011
• Nerdfighteria Community T-shirt at DFTBA.com, royalties to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011) — stage, launch, 2011–2011
• P4A 2011 edition — stage, result, 2011–2012
• Keep It or Shave It: Hank's facial-hair vote with dollars for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011) — stage, result, 2011–2011
• Hank asks viewers to vote with dollars at fightworldsuck.org on keeping or shaving his facial hair (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
• Hank invites viewers to keep donating to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck at fightworldsuck.org (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
• Hank asks viewers to donate to the P4A 2011 Fund at projectforawesome.com or fightworldsuck.org (2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2011
• Hank asks viewers to vote at projectforawesome.com for the charities of P4A 2011 videos they like (2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2012
• Foundation to Decrease World Suck becomes a real non-profit (2012) — stage, milestone, 2012–2013
• Hank asks VidCon 2012 attendees to bring books for the charity book drive (2012) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2012–2012
• Evil Baby Orphanage card game: a game company's Kickstarter campaign (2012) — stage, milestone, 2012–2013
• P4A 2012 edition — stage, result, 2012–2013
• John asks viewers to donate to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck on behalf of the World Cup 2014 team the brothers should support (2013) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2013–2013

What the videos say

2007

• 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — Hank announces a new Brotherhood 2.0 feature: a World Suck Index for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, built by a viewer, in the site's sidebar. (00:03:06)
• 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — The index debuts at suck level red because a viewer's best friend, who had recently beaten cancer, died of pneumonia. (00:03:06)
• 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — For the next two weeks all donations to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck will go to the dead friend's family. (00:03:31)

2011

• 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John announces a Nerdfighter-designed T-shirt on sale at DFTBA.com; unlike earlier shirts, all their royalties go to what Hank has been calling 'the fund'. (00:00:00)
• 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John recalls that in Brotherhood 2.0 they created the Foundation to Decrease World Suck: people donated and the brothers gave the money to things like Save the Children and train fare for two Nerdfighters to meet. (00:00:37)
• 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John announces that as part of P4A 2011 the Foundation to Decrease World Suck comes back, with no stupid stuff: Nerdfighteria will pool money and choose together how to spend it to decrease the most world suck. (00:01:07)
• 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John says the community will be forced to prioritise its resources to address the biggest problems humans face as a species. (00:01:07)
• 2011-11-05 · You CAN Judge a Book by its Cover! — Calling the choice too big to make alone and a chance to fill the Foundation to Decrease World Suck before P4A, Hank asks viewers to vote with dollars at fightworldsuck.org on keeping or shaving his facial hair. (00:02:44)
• 2011-11-10 · 27 Part Video — In the description, Hank invites viewers to keep donating to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck at fightworldsuck.org. (00:00:00)
• 2011-11-10 · 27 Part Video — Hank reports the Keep It / Shave It fundraiser result: Keep It $1494.43 beat Shave It $1449.98, together almost $3,000 for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. (00:03:10)
• 2011-12-17 · Project for Awesome Logistics — Hank encourages everyone to donate at projectforawesome.com, live from noon, or before then at fightworldsuck.org; all the money goes into the P4A Fund. (00:00:00)
• 2011-12-17 · Project for Awesome Logistics — A guide shows how to vote for a charity seen in a video: search for it on the site (e.g. the Foundation to Decrease World Suck) and click vote. (00:01:16)
• 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — In the last 48 hours the Foundation to Decrease World Suck raised $75,000. (00:00:03)
• 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — The foundation will distribute the money according to how the community decided it should be distributed; more in the coming weeks. (00:01:13)
• 2011-12-27 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Each of the five charities will receive $14,269.22: the roughly $71,000 raised for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck divided by five. (00:00:58)

2012

• 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — John says what he loves about Kickstarter, as about the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, is that it is 'about us': the money is raised and spent together. (00:02:55)
• 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, a Nerdfighteria project for over five years, is finally becoming an actual charity that can take tax-deductible donations; the process is ongoing and complicated. (00:00:30)
• 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John reports the Foundation had over $9,000 at the end of last quarter and now about $30, a success because it went from $9,000 to $88,000 to nothing by giving all the money away. (00:00:30)
• 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says more than $16,500 went to each of five charities chosen by Nerdfighteria: Kids in Need of Desks, This Star Won't Go Out, the HP Alliance, Water.org and Kiva. (00:00:59)
• 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says the Foundation's operating cost is still zero, so every donated dollar goes to charity. (00:00:59)
• 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — VidCon 2012 will raise money for the Project for Awesome and the Foundation to Decrease World Suck through a book drive and a charity auction; attendees should bring books. (00:02:27)
• 2012-08-24 · Happy Birthday John Green! — Beyond videos, Hank lists that they started companies with people who like their jobs, a non-profit foundation, went on tour, and both stage-dived. (00:00:58)
• 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck is a real non-profit now. (00:02:08)
• 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John says money raised for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck goes to the organizations in the five most-voted videos, at the discretion of an all-Nerdfighter P4A board, so a rigged vote cannot win. (00:01:56)
• 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John announces that four anonymous donors will match every dollar donated to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, up to $50,000. (00:02:26)
• 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says that after last year's Project for Awesome the Foundation to Decrease World Suck gave more than $80,000 to five charities chosen by the YouTube community, leaving it broke. (00:00:29)
• 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says the foundation now has $15,000 in the bank plus $60,000 in pledges, which he says should be bigger than last year. (00:00:29)
• …and 4 more statements in 2012 (most important shown)

2013

• 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says the Nerdfighter Kiva group is at about $1.76 million, and that every day he makes two loans from the Foundation to Decrease World Suck's rotating $8,000 of Kiva credit. (01:56:15)
• 2013-09-03 · Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform — John: freed from saving every dollar against bankruptcy, Hank could invest in DFTBA Records, VidCon, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, SciShow and more; none could have happened without publicly subsidized health insurance. (00:02:55)
• 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — P4A also raises money for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck; the community then decides where to donate it, which John says teaches thoughtful philanthropy. (00:00:29)
• 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says he and Hank are auctioning their World Cup 2014 support: donations to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck on behalf of a team decide whom they support, top to bottom. (00:00:55)
• 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John announces the Foundation to Decrease World Suck is now an official 501(c)(3) federally sanctioned charity, so US donations are tax-deductible. (00:01:40)
• 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — Every dollar donated to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck this year will be matched up to $125,000 by anonymous donors. (00:01:51)
• 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — The Foundation to Decrease World Suck has $23,955 in the bank, from VidCon, the Nerdfighter Minecraft server and charity items at DFTBA.com, a much better start than last year. (00:02:00)