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  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: The description says that, because of how their accounting works, DFTBA profit going to Partners In Health extends back through the entire last year (2018). — video description
  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: Hank explains that DFTBA profit not going to Partners In Health is either held as an operating reserve or distributed to small minority owners who invested when the company needed it. — video description
  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: Hank clarifies that DFTBA is a separate company from Complexly: DFTBA's profit from services to creators goes to Partners In Health, while money Vlogbrothers makes selling merch still goes to Complexly and creators keep earning as normal. — video description
  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: Hank: With big goals for maternal health in Liberia with Partners In Health, Hank says DFTBA will give the vast majority of its after-tax profit to PIH for that project, with more information soon. — 00:02:56
  • 2019-04-05 · TOO MANY MILKS — announcement: Hank says John is in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health, seeing how individuals and the whole community might help make life easier there, especially for pregnant people and babies. — 00:00:31
  • 2019-04-05 · TOO MANY MILKS — Hank says John had poor internet and little free time for a video, and Hank looks forward to hearing what happened in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
  • 2019-04-05 · TOO MANY MILKS — announcement: Hank says all of his and John's after-tax DFTBA profits will go to charity, probably to help do a project with Partners In Health. (hedged) — 00:01:15
  • 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — ask: The description asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
  • 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John: Partners In Health, working with the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jalloh, staff and patients, brought the right generator, more staff, hundreds of medications, new beds and running water. — 00:02:10
  • 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John: Investing means time and attention to listen carefully, not barging in with preconceived solutions: what the community learned from a decade working with Partners In Health. — 00:05:05
  • 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says PIH succeeds because it builds systems and listens to the people it serves; it's no coincidence that 96% of PIH Sierra Leone's employees are Sierra Leonean. — 00:05:20
  • 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — announcement: John: In coming months and years John and Hank will focus on long-term support for Sierra Leone's health care system, by far the channel's biggest project: intimidating, but the need is immediate and critical. — 00:05:30
  • 2019-04-16 · Doing Somethings — announcement: The description plugs John's podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed and says maybe someday they will do live shows to benefit Partners in Health. (hedged) — video description
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — ask: John: Life's Library has slots open for its new book, Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits; sign up at lifeslibrarybookclub.com, with all proceeds going to Partners In Health's work in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:26
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — announcement: John: Nerdfighteria's project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone will provide ongoing funding to improve the health care system there, because long-term problems need long-term solutions. — 00:02:55
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — ask: John asks viewers to suggest in the comments a title for the Partners In Health Sierra Leone project, or for Hank's sequel. — 00:02:55
  • 2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — John says he partly hasn't written a novel because of other work (Crash Course European History, the Partners In Health project, TV and movie adaptations), though he has had some kind of day job for most of his writing life. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — announcement: John says the brothers will make a big announcement later this month (October 2019) about working with Partners In Health Sierra Leone, and first considers why Sierra Leone is so poor. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — announcement: The description says Hank and John have worked for a year and a half on a big, long-term project with PIH Sierra Leone, to be announced later this month (October 2019). — video description
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — The description thanks Jon Lascher of PIH for pre-PIH photos of Koidu Government Hospital and checking the script, and Rosianna Halse Rojas for images and editing. — video description
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John met an Ebola survivor, now working for Partners In Health, who shared a bed with his son at a treatment facility; both survived, but his wife died a few beds over. — 00:04:22
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — a guest: The Ebola survivor says the treatment facility had only three beds for four of them, so he refused to let his son go and shared a bed with him; he lay struggling for nine days, and his wife, also brought there, died. — 00:04:52
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John says it is inaccurate to call investment pointless: he has seen the difference PIH and the Ministry of Health have made in Kono with very limited resources. — 00:06:25
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John believes progress will continue if the Ministry of Health, with organizations like PIH, can make long-term investments that address long-term problems. — 00:06:54
  • 2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings — announcement: John says the announcement of the brothers' big project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone is forthcoming: many moving parts, very exciting and very overwhelming. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings — John says two years of working with Partners In Health on the Sierra Leone project have given his life purpose and direction, a wonderful gift. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: The description says the $6.5 million donation is made by John, Katherine, Sarah and Hank, and that donations are now matched by a Nerdfighteria matching fund. — video description
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: In a comment John says the Project for Awesome will not change, at least this year (2019): it keeps raising unrestricted funds for groups like PIH and Save the Children; they want, if possible, to fund this project separately, but whether they can without the P4A remains to be seen. — creator comment
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John announces that over the next five years the brothers' families are donating $6.5 million to Partners In Health Sierra Leone. — 00:00:01
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John: In Sierra Leone earlier this year (2019) John spent a day with Ruth, a PIH community health worker who makes house calls to people with serious illnesses like tuberculosis or HIV. — 00:00:09
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says Ruth's education was interrupted by the civil war (1991-2002); she contracted HIV and nearly died before antiretroviral therapy let her recover and find a job with PIH. — 00:00:43
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says that, working with PIH over the last 10 years, the community has seen its success helping build health care systems in impoverished communities from Haiti to Rwanda. — 00:03:21
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says PIH and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health are crafting a plan to strengthen every facet of the health system, starting in Kono: far more community health workers and stronger primary care centres. — 00:03:32
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says 96 percent of PIH Sierra Leone's employees are Sierra Leonean, and he has seen what they accomplish even with extremely limited resources. — 00:04:11
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says they are committed to following the project's successes and challenges over the next five years and beyond, through video, photo and audio updates and interviews with Sierra Leonean health workers. — 00:04:43
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John: Answering 'Why Sierra Leone?', John says the Ministry of Health is committed to systemic change and PIH's deep connections in Kono let it help make that change. — 00:05:04
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says that by locating the project in the world's epicentre of maternal death, PIH hopes to show that radically reducing maternal mortality in poor communities is a global imperative, not a pipe dream. — 00:05:13
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says that just as PIH led the charge on treating HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, it aims to show that strengthening health systems in poor communities is possible, necessary and replicable. — 00:05:26
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says about $25 million is needed over five years; with their $6.5 million and several big PIH donations they are over halfway, but still need a little over a million dollars a year. — 00:05:44
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says generous Nerdfighters have built a matching fund of $120,000 per year, so every dollar donated is matched up to that amount, and thanks the matching donors. — 00:06:13
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — ask: John asks viewers to donate $5 or $10 a month or more at pih.org/hankandjohn, saying it will make a huge difference. — 00:06:25
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says PIH is known for efficiency and effectiveness, and Ruth's donation showed him how much a few dollars can mean in Kono. — 00:06:36
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John: In a P.S. John thanks Andrew, John, Ruth and Dr. Barrie at PIH, Niki Hua and Rosianna Halse Rojas, the Life's Library community and the matching donors. — 00:08:06
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — ask: John asks people able to donate $2,000 or more who want to join the matching team to email him at sparksflyup@gmail.com. — 00:08:24
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says he will be in the comments to answer viewers' questions. — 00:08:34
  • 2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — ask: In a comment John praises Hank's video and asks viewers to donate at pih.org/hankandjohn; people able to give $2,000 or more should email the address Hank named or sparksflyup. — creator comment
  • 2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — announcement: Hank says, having not mentioned it on the channel, that DFTBA now gives all the profit distributions that would go to him and John to charity. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — Hank says they have already raised more than half of their initial goal of $240,000 at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — ask: Hank says advising donors is a little what he and John try to do, and invites people to email hankandjohn@gmail.com so they can help them make the most of their dollars. — 00:02:11
  • 2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — ask: Hank closes by asking viewers to give to Partners In Health or check out the pilots. — 00:03:33
  • 2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — John: What John misses most is promoting his work: the Partners In Health Sierra Leone fundraising is going amazingly, but he knows there would be more donors and Pizzamas shirt buyers if he posted. — 00:00:40
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says the first half of the P4A raises money for pre-selected Save the Children and Partners In Health, which the community has worked with for over a decade and which reach the most vulnerable. — 00:01:48
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says this year's (2019) P4A fundraising is entirely separate from the brothers' project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone announced a couple of months ago. — 00:02:01
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says over 3,000 viewers have joined the brothers in donating to strengthen Sierra Leone's healthcare system, and they are grateful and excited to watch the progress. — 00:02:08
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says the P4A, as in past years, raises unrestricted funds that Partners In Health and Save the Children can spend wherever most needed. — 00:02:19
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John gives examples: Partners In Health might need money to support a clinic in the Navajo Nation or to buy medical supplies in Haiti. (hedged) — 00:02:27
  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says the charities know better than the brothers where the funding gaps are and unrestricted funds are really important to charities, so the Sierra Leone project stays separate. — 00:02:31
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: As one example from that decade, Partners In Health helped build and support the Butaro Cancer Center in Rwanda. — 00:02:16
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: A recent PIH video tells of Mabel, a Sierra Leonean woman diagnosed with HIV while pregnant, whom Partners In Health helped get antiretroviral therapy and later become a community health worker. — 00:02:56
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: Mabel is one of over 11,000 community health workers supported by PIH around the world. — 00:03:08
  • 2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John: Right now every donated dollar is matched by nerdfighters who contributed to a matching fund and by donors to PIH and Save the Children. — 00:03:28
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — The description explains the P4A: first-half money goes to PIH and Save the Children, second-half money to community-voted charities, and the company pays non-volunteer staff, so after perk costs all money goes to charity. — video description
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — Hank says we need to support the master puzzle-solvers who understand each problem's unique shape, like the people at Partners In Health and Save the Children, the P4A's first-half charities. — 00:02:36
  • 2019-12-06 · It is Much Easier to Destroy than Create — Hank: Healthcare is a hard puzzle everywhere, but these organizations help communities build more robust healthcare, decrease illness and provide stability. — 00:02:50

Also named in: Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS)

2020

  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank lists what that togetherness has produced: Life's Library, the Project for Awesome, the work with Partners in Health, the ideas that helped him understand the world, Dear Hank and John, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:01:47
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — ask: The description asks people who can give $1,000 or more to support Partners In Health's fight to end the maternal and child mortality crises in Sierra Leone. — video description
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says Partners In Health needs $20 million to break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence, which will dramatically improve healthcare for women and children in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:48
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says thousands of viewers have become monthly donors to the project at pih.org/hankandjohn; he is grateful, as are people in Sierra Leone, one of whom made him an artwork. — 00:01:02
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says they still need to raise a few million dollars, which he realizes is a lot of money. — 00:01:13
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — announcement: John's most important 2020 goal is to finish raising the money, though maybe 2020 isn't realistic for it. (hedged) — 00:01:17
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — ask: John asks people who can make a big donation to Partners In Health to email him at sparksflyup@gmail.com or donate directly to the matching fund. — 00:01:21
  • 2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John: This year (2020) John gave to a college student in Oregon and received from a nerdfighter in Pennsylvania a $100 donation to Partners In Health and a weighted blanket. — 00:01:43
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says when Partners In Health began supporting the hospital in 2014 it lacked consistent electricity and running water, an emergency department, a blood bank and working x-rays; the maternity ward had a dirt floor. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — recommendation: John recommends reading Partners In Health Sierra Leone's just-released annual report, even for those who can't donate, as a very hopeful document. — 00:03:48
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says the PIH-supported Wellbody Clinic saw zero maternal deaths in 2019, the third year in a row. — 00:03:48
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says PIH now employs over 450 people, 96% Sierra Leonean; local nutritional supplements are reducing malnutrition; the hospital's maternal team is hiring nine nurses and four midwives. — 00:04:17
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John: Citing PIH's Jon Lascher, John says the hospital is the only place within many hours' travel where women can get an emergency C-section, straining an inadequate maternity ward. — 00:04:17
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — announcement: John says PIH and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health are building a Maternal Center of Excellence and a NICU at the hospital, more than tripling maternal beds. — 00:04:46
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says total commitments are now close to $13 million, which is amazing, but there is still a ways to go. — 00:05:16
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — ask: John asks viewers to make a monthly or one-time donation at pih.org/hankandjohn, each dollar matched by generous people within Nerdfighteria. — 00:05:16
  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — ask: John points those able to give $2,000 or more to a link to join the matching fund. — 00:05:16
  • 2020-02-11 · 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update — In a comment, John says they just passed 5,000 total donors at pih.org/hankandjohn and thanks them. — creator comment
  • 2020-03-24 · Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There — John has virtual therapy and medication, but found most helpful this week (week of 23 March 2020) mental health tips from Partners In Health, informed by people who lived and worked through big outbreaks. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-03-24 · Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There — John says PIH values partnership enough to put it in its name, because in global health, as elsewhere, everyone needs to learn from everyone. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-03-24 · Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There — John says we have a lot to learn from these people, and in the PIH model colleagues around the world learn from each other to serve patients and the public. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-03-24 · Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There — announcement: John says the ten tips come from PIH's head of mental health, Dr. Bepi Raviola, drawn from wide experience of living with social distance: advice from people who've been there. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — recommendation: In a comment John points viewers asking about Partners in Health's COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone to a podcast with regular updates and interviews with healthcare workers. — creator comment
  • 2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — recommendation: In a comment John points to Taika Waititi and others, including Meryl Streep and Cumberbatch, reading Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach to raise money for PIH. — creator comment
  • 2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — announcement: In a comment John says he will do a livestream about PIH's work in Sierra Leone later in the week, plus an evening livestream. — creator comment
  • 2020-06-02 · --- — John says movements such as Black Lives Matter, We Need Diverse Books and Partners In Health changed the world by responding to crisis and through sustained, little-noticed work. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — ask: The description asks those able to donate $2,000 or more to the Sierra Leone maternal health effort to join the matching fund. — video description
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John explains that the brothers are helping Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health in a multi-year project to strengthen the healthcare system, focused on maternal mortality. — 00:01:28
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The pandemic challenges health systems everywhere: Koidu Government Hospital's emergency department closed for a time after health workers caught the virus and others had to self-isolate, leaving no replacements. — 00:01:28
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The emergency department is running again; PIH has been deeply involved in contact tracing and screening across Sierra Leone, and cases are down 18% from their peak. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: PIH Sierra Leone's contact-tracing expertise has been vital worldwide; Partners In Health is heading up Massachusetts's contact tracing program. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — announcement: John: Later this month (July 2020) a special baby care unit opens at Koidu Government Hospital, which John calls a huge milestone for infant care. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The community's response has been incredible: donations have kept going up every month despite everything; John thanks donors and points to pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:02:52
  • 2020-08-03 · you're bundled up now? wait till you get older. — John: Working together, including on their Partners In Health project, has been John's way back into deep connection with Hank, and the work itself expresses their shared love. — 00:02:49
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John says they are in one of their most ambitious projects yet: supporting PIH and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health to staff, supply and build a maternal care center, a NICU and a new pediatric ward at Koidu Government Hospital. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John recalls that a year ago they announced a project supporting PIH and Sierra Leone's government in radically reducing maternal mortality, raising $25 million over five years to strengthen Kono's health system. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — recommendation: John recommends the Netflix documentary Bending the Arc, on how PIH proved that treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in poor countries was possible when the global health community thought it impossible. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: At the large, successful Wellbody clinic PIH runs, there has not been a single maternal death in years. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The change is happening, but John and PIH believe a high-quality teaching hospital must accelerate it. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: Despite COVID, groundbreaking on the Maternal Center of Excellence is still planned for April 2021, the original date, a credit to PIH and Sierra Leone's government. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The project's five-year cost is $25 million, but $20 million must be raised before breaking ground, so the building is not left half built, unstaffed or unsupplied, a big problem in poor countries. — 00:04:14
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Thanks to thousands of monthly donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, matched by donors within Nerdfighteria, current rates will raise over $15 million over five years. — 00:04:43
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Another $3.5 million has come from large donors to PIH. — 00:05:13
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — ask: John asks people able to give about $5,000 or more to use a separate link in the description or email him at sparksflyup@gmail.com. — 00:06:11
  • 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — ask: John asks viewers who can to join in donating at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:07:39
  • 2020-12-08 · A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically — John says a few years ago the brothers decided their portion of the profits from these businesses should go to charity. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — recommendation: In a channel comment John recommends Unchain, Partners In Health's podcast about the only psychiatric hospital in Sierra Leone. — creator comment
  • 2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — ask: The description asks viewers to become monthly or one-time donors to Partners In Health's work building a stronger healthcare system in Sierra Leone. — video description
  • 2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John: Despite all the unforeseen events of the year, the goal of raising the money for the Maternal Center of Excellence was reached. — 00:02:50
  • 2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: John: Thanks to the monthly donors, at current donation levels Partners In Health has the money to break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence next spring (2021), hopefully. (hedged) — 00:02:55

2021

  • 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: The first half raises unrestricted funds for pre-selected charities, this year (2021) Partners In Health and Save the Children, long-time community partners; the second half funds charities chosen by viewers. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: First-half money goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health, very effective at decreasing world suck; second-half money to organizations viewers vote for. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — Hank: When John asked him a few years ago to give a significant share of his current money and promise much of his future earnings to people seeking the best solutions, Hank swallowed hard and said yes. — 00:02:35
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — announcement: Hank: The 2021 Project for Awesome starts today, Friday the 12th at noon, and runs through the 14th; the first half raises money for Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:02:52
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: Next week (week of 26 April 2021) Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean government will officially break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence and the expansion of Koidu Government Hospital, a huge step against maternal mortality. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: Despite the challenges of the last 15 months, the Maternal Center of Excellence is on schedule thanks to the Ministry of Health, colleagues at PIH and thousands of donors. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — ask: The description asks those able to donate $2,000 or more to the PIH project to join the matching fund. — video description
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John assumed the pandemic would delay the MCOE for months or years, but donations grew every month and, with Partners In Health, over $20 million has been raised. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — recommendation: John recommends PIH Sierra Leone's annual report, which covers the infant care unit and a baby, Naphtal, whose parents named him after his doctor in thanks for his survival. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: The groundbreaking will be celebrated on April 29 at 6 p.m. Eastern with a livestream featuring friends from PIH Sierra Leone; John hopes viewers join. — 00:01:16
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John will do a livestream later that afternoon going through the financial and fundraising side in detail. — 00:01:46
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — ask: John: There is still a funding gap, so John asks those able to donate to the project at PIH.org/hankandjohn. — 00:01:46
  • 2021-07-23 · The Last 25 Questions I Asked Google — announcement: The description says the Awesome Socks Club is open for two weeks, sign-ups get their first pair in August, and 100% of profits go to Partners in Health to build the Maternal Center of Excellence. — video description
  • 2021-08-06 · Remembering What's Special — Hank: The projects that vibed include Crash Course, now huge; DFTBA Records, which helped creators make a living; and the Awesome Socks Club, which has raised over $600,000 for Partners In Health. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John says the brothers' share also seems high, because the money belongs to Nerdfighteria, not to them; that is why half goes to grants for educational creators and half to charity. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John stresses the 'in part': the brothers can afford not to make money from Vlogbrothers and DFTBA only because they earn elsewhere, John from books and Hank from his many jobs. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — The description says many viewers donated to Partners In Health's work for a stronger healthcare system in Sierra Leone for John's birthday, the perfect present. — video description
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — Hank thanks Sock Club members: they have so far raised over $600,000 for Partners In Health, and the socks are really good. — 00:01:45
  • 2021-10-01 · A Lie I Heard this Week — Hank says that because John did that work, they have raised tens of millions of dollars for Partners In Health, and donors, Awesome Socks Club members, Pizzamas buyers and community members were all part of it. — 00:02:53
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Hank says that may be part of why they started donating all Pizzamas profit: not making money helps it not feel like work. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • 2021-12-14 · MAKE. BELIEVE. — John says the census helps them understand the community's values and priorities and has hugely affected everything from Crash Course to their work with Partners In Health. — 00:03:24
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — recommendation: John recommends reading Partners In Health Sierra Leone's new annual report, or watching a video on improved maternal and child care at Koidu Government Hospital and what the Maternal Center of Excellence will mean. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John reports big reductions in child and maternal mortality at Koidu Government Hospital over the last year, and far more people using the health system because they feel they can get care. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — recommendation: John calls the letter from PIH Sierra Leone Executive Director Dr. Bailor Barrie beautiful, with a link to read it. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — ask: John asks those able, at year's end, to join the thousands of nerdfighters making monthly or one-time donations to PIH's work to reduce maternal mortality, at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:02:55

2022

2023

  • 2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John: Asked in a comment about an independent auditor of the club's profits, John says PIH itself is currently the auditor and he will ask PIH whether it can formalize or publicize something. — creator comment
  • 2023-02-03 · My Mid-Afternoon Existential Crisis — Hank: The first half of the P4A raises money for Save the Children and Partners In Health; the second half for organisations the community votes for after watching viewers' videos. — 00:01:41
  • 2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John says the first half of the P4A raises money for Partners In Health and Save the Children, the second half for charities chosen by viewers. — 00:01:32
  • 2023-02-17 · COUNTDOWN TO THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME — Hank says both organizations help people with the least by building strong foundations for communities, and that evidence and experience show people given resources and a foundation will build. — 00:02:33
  • 2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — ask: John asks viewers who can to donate to Partners In Health or other organizations working to make TB history. — 00:03:24
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — The description says John visits Sierra Leone's Kono District for the first time since Covid and is astonished by the progress, the hope, and how far is still to go. — video description
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: When PIH began working with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health eight years ago, Koidu's maternity ward had dirt floors and no patients, after impoverishment, civil war and the Ebola-era health-system collapse. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — In a comment John says corruption is a challenge everywhere, so building only where there is none would mean no hospitals; PIH's transparent partnerships are why they trust it. — creator comment
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — In a comment John says help has to begin with cultural humility, listening to what Sierra Leoneans say they need, plus PIH's long-term focus; no charity is perfect, but he believes in PIH's model. — creator comment
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: Helped by the nearly $40 million Nerdfighteria and PIH raised over three and a half years, the MCOE will be the world-class center Kono's mothers and children deserve. — 00:01:27
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John tells the thousands of monthly donors, the one-time givers and those who shared the project that this is the change they are making. — 00:05:21
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — ask: John asks viewers who can to join the monthly donors or make a one-time gift at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:06:19
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — ask: John asks those considering a large gift (past gifts ranged from $2,000 to $500,000) to give via the special link or email him with questions. — 00:06:19
  • 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: In the special care baby unit, PIH co-founder Ophelia Dahl asked whether a frail baby on CPAP would live; the nurse answered that all these babies will live: this is the good news room. — 00:06:49
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John says Partners In Health talks a lot about accompaniment: walking someone's path with them so they don't feel alone, always listening and helping when you can. — 00:02:14
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John: For PIH accompaniment is key to good health care; John thinks for all of us it is key to a good life. — 00:02:26
  • 2023-08-01 · Three Mornings — John says the Awesome Coffee Club donates 100% of profit to charity; Awesome Coffee, Awesome Socks and Sun Basin Soap have donated over $5 million in three years to fight maternal and infant mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:05:20
  • 2023-08-15 · Henry — The description thanks Henry, Dr. Girum Tefera and his Lakka colleagues, and Partners In Health for introducing John to Henry. — video description
  • 2023-08-15 · Henry — Girum Tefera (quoted): Dr. Tefera says that before Partners In Health came, a person in Sierra Leone with MDR-TB was just waiting for the time of their death. — 00:01:40
  • 2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Saying that in TB you have to keep trying, Dr. Tefera asked Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health to bring needed drugs from Liberia and Lesotho to save Henry. — 00:02:26
  • 2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Henry returned to school and, with Partners In Health's support, studies human resources management at the University of Sierra Leone; he dreams of working in business and travelling. — 00:04:42
  • 2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John shows Hank a picture of the Maternal Center of Excellence, a massive extension to Sierra Leone's Koidu Government Hospital funded primarily by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:20
  • 2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — The description thanks Rosianna Halse Rojas, Dr. Carole Mitnick of Harvard, MSF and PIH staff, and all the nerdfighters who worked together to make tbfighters.org. — video description
  • 2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John says since 2019 PIH, Doctors Without Borders and others have urged Danaher to cut prices to $5 per cartridge, through letters and public lobbying, with no response. — 00:05:26
  • 2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — announcement: John says those organizations have now asked the brothers and viewers to join them in the next step. — 00:05:48
  • 2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — The description thanks Doctors Without Borders and Partners In Health for making the event possible. — video description
  • 2023-09-19 · So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! — John credits partners, many in this fight for years: Doctors Without Borders, the Treatment Action Group and Partners In Health, among others. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-09-25 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!! — announcement: The description says all Pizzamas proceeds go to support PIH's work, with an emphasis on tuberculosis treatment and diagnosis. — video description
  • 2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John: On his 40-minute walk to the UN, John wondered whether he would get to speak and thought of the honor of representing Nerdfighteria, Partners In Health, TB survivors and those who died. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-09-30 · An Incredible Update — John says J&J has essentially agreed to everything Doctors Without Borders, Partners In Health, Treatment Action Group and many others asked for. — 00:02:17
  • 2023-10-05 · America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team — John and his producing partner Rosianna sponsor AFC Wimbledon: the women's team wear a Partners In Health logo on their shirts, the men's team a DFTBA logo on their shorts. — 00:00:57
  • 2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: Over the last five years the community has raised over $40 million to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, which John says is coming along great. — 00:01:27
  • 2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says the lump grew until Mondeh struggled to swallow and lost weight, over four years; at 10 he saw a Partners In Health doctor who suspected lymphoma, and a biopsy in the capital confirmed Hodgkin lymphoma. — 00:01:58
  • 2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says all of this would have been impossible for Mondeh's family to afford without support from Partners In Health. — 00:03:15
  • 2023-12-01 · It's OK if you think less of me after this! — Hank says John gave him a motivation: promise to raise $25 million for a hospital in Sierra Leone without knowing how, which excites him in a way making money for himself did not. — 00:03:15
  • 2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News — John says Partners In Health, Doctors Without Borders, Unitaid and others ran a randomized controlled trial over several years testing whether shorter regimens of existing drugs can cure MDR-TB. — 00:01:27

2024

  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — In a comment John says Partners In Health works in the US and the Navajo Nation, but as an international community Nerdfighteria wants to keep an international focus. — creator comment
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: In 2019 the community began supporting Partners In Health's efforts to radically reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone's Kono District. — 00:00:25
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Some Project for Awesome money goes to preselected charities, usually Partners In Health and Save the Children, and some to charities Nerdfighteria chooses by voting on P4A videos at projectforawesome.com. — 00:02:24
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Not all of those savings are due to Nerdfighteria: Partners In Health, Doctors Without Borders, the Treatment Action Group and many TB survivors have worked for these changes for years. — 00:04:25
  • 2024-01-19 · The Project for Awesome is Changing! — Hank says every year this worked out to within a couple of percent of 50% to Partners In Health and Save the Children and 50% to community-voted charities. — 00:01:40
  • 2024-01-19 · The Project for Awesome is Changing! — announcement: Hank announces that this year (2024) all P4A money will be pooled, with half going to Save the Children and Partners In Health and half to community-voted charities. — 00:02:00
  • 2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank recalls that John convinced him to help raise $25 million to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health, which was scary and motivating. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank says Partners In Health took a chance and they delivered, not because everyone gave but because there are many of them and those who could or wanted to did. — 00:00:58
  • 2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank says they work with Partners In Health because it sees crises where others see the status quo and stays focused on huge problems, news or not, by strengthening health systems. — 00:05:05
  • 2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — announcement: Hank: For the first time in a long time, P4A money will not go to the Maternal Center of Excellence, now pretty well supported, but to the global fight against tuberculosis. — 00:05:05
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — announcement: John says there will be a major announcement on Thursday about his family's efforts to fight tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that work is hard, as seen in the fight against maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, but results are huge: maternal mortality there has halved since 2019. — 00:03:50
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John calls this the biggest bet of his life: a bet that we don't have to accept a world where so many people die of a disease no one should die of. — 00:04:20
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — announcement: John says that on Thursday (14 March 2024) he hopes to announce the beginning, and only the beginning, of that bet. (hedged) — 00:04:20
  • 2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank congratulates John on his work in D.C. and the big news going on. — 00:06:20
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: John says he was also in Washington to announce his family's commitment to support comprehensive tuberculosis care. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John calls it in some ways the biggest bet of his life: a bet that we don't have to live in a world where over a million people a year die of a curable, preventable disease. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John thanks those behind the project: USAID's Cheri Vincent and Atul Gawande, PIH's Garrett Wilkinson and Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, the Philippine Department of Health, activists and NGOs. — video description
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: Replying to a confused viewer in a comment, John clarifies the yearly funding is spent every year for the next four years, unless USAID pulls funding. (hedged) — creator comment
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: John reports that at a Thursday briefing USAID announced a program funding comprehensive TB care in regions of Ethiopia and the Philippines, meant as a blueprint and beacon for ending TB worldwide. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says that in the Philippines USAID will give $10 million a year, his family $1 million a year, and the Philippine government $11 million a year, matching both. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says over the next four years the project can have over $80 million for comprehensive TB care, starting in one region of the Philippines, which has the world's fourth-highest TB prevalence. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says many are involved, from USAID to the Philippine Department of Health, the Partners In Health community and Philippine NGOs, and seeing them plan together has been inspirational. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says the project won't be easy and has real risks, but he is betting big because he believes it could transform what we think is possible against TB. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: John says this is not the end of their bet that TB can be defeated. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says that on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or the global TB crisis, he is astonished by what Nerdfighteria has done by orienting attention and resources in the same direction, and is grateful. — 00:04:23
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John cites Partners In Health: in every country where it works, a lower cost per cartridge would let it expand access significantly. — 00:01:09
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — announcement: John: In a P.S., John says that on Saturday at noon Eastern the brothers will host a livestream on the Vlogbrothers channel about Partners In Health's work, honoring young nerdfighter Amit, who died of cancer and left part of his estate to PIH, trying to raise money to match his gift. — 00:05:30
  • 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — announcement: Hank announces John's two-hour livestream on the channel on Saturday, June 15, at noon Eastern: a look at how Partners In Health works and honoring and matching a longtime nerdfighter's bequest. — 00:08:45
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — ask: The description and John's channel comment invite viewers to join the thousands of monthly donors to the Sierra Leone project at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: For PIH and the Ministry of Health, radically reducing maternal mortality meant everything from hiring many community health workers to building a teaching maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says PIH needed to raise over $25 million before breaking ground, and building and running the hospital for a few years costs around $50 million. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: Thousands of people became monthly donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, giving $5 to $50 a month; they raised several million dollars over five years, all matched by a Nerdfighteria matching fund. — 00:00:58
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: Altogether they helped raise over $40 million for the project, and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has already fallen by more than 50% since 2019, saving thousands of lives. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — announcement: John: PIH told them it is starting a new strategy to prove that comprehensive TB care (finding, treating, preventing) can drive down the disease and strengthen health systems, and asked for their help. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says PIH, with a long history of expanding TB care, will prove that just as we need not live in a world where in some communities 1 in 17 women die in pregnancy or childbirth, we need not live in a world with TB. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: PIH will start in Lesotho, where it has worked for almost 20 years and which has the world's highest TB incidence. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John asks, not rhetorically, whether they can support two very long-term projects, and says he doesn't know. (unsure) — 00:03:53
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — announcement: John: Good Store's socks and soap stay oriented around maternal mortality, while coffee and now tea relaunch as a new brand, Keats & Co., to fight tuberculosis. — 00:03:53
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John doesn't want to undermine the Sierra Leone maternal work, but PIH calls comprehensive TB care the next big thing in global health equity. — 00:05:21
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: When PIH says so, you say yes; everyone faces versions of this, with many crises and no one able to address all of them. — 00:05:45
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John hopes they can do both well over time but doesn't know that they can; resources are limited, including money and attention. (unsure) — 00:06:14
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John thinks PIH is right that someone must prove comprehensive TB care can work even in impoverished communities where TB is rampant. — 00:06:14
  • 2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — The description links Henry Reider's fundraiser to build a well in Freetown with PIH's help. — video description
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Partners In Health is working with Lesotho's government on a version of what happened in Alaska decades ago: search, treat, prevent. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-09-23 · IT'S HERE! — announcement: John says all the money made at pizzamas.com this Pizzamas goes to Partners In Health; keeping it would be morally repugnant. — 00:01:46
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says Partners In Health helped fund the endTB trials, which found shorter, less toxic regimens that cure MDR-TB, and last week (week of 16 September 2024) the WHO adopted them as recommended regimens. — 00:00:13
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank thanks John for a wonderful Pizzamas and says, as always, 100% of Pizzamas profit is donated to help Partners In Health build health systems where most needed. — 00:05:05
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says all money Good Store makes goes either to stronger maternal and infant care in Sierra Leone or to better tuberculosis care in Lesotho. — 00:02:27
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Lesotho is currently the epicenter of the world's TB crisis. — 00:02:27
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — announcement: John says the livestream's super chats will be donated to PIH, because it would be weird to keep them. — 00:55:50
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: In 2019 the brothers committed to raising $25 million to help build a maternal and infant care center in the Kono District of Sierra Leone. — 00:00:26
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: Building a hospital is not simple, and the brothers knew they would eventually need far more than $25 million for its ongoing costs, such as hiring community health workers to find at-risk pregnancies. — 00:00:40
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: To do right by the project in a long-term, open-ended way, thousands of people donate every month at pih.org/hankandjohn and dozens more fund a monthly match; John calls this the financial backbone of the maternal and infant care project. — 00:01:00
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: Because the soap and socks now give the maternal health care project enough, the brothers decided Keats & Co. coffee and tea would fund a new project fighting tuberculosis in Lesotho. — 00:03:09
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John believes the Lesotho tuberculosis project can make a huge difference there and globally, by proving that investing in tuberculosis drives rates down dramatically and quickly. — 00:03:26
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — ask: The description asks viewers to donate at pih.org/hankandjohn for better maternal care in Kono, or to shop at Good Store. — video description
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John: The week before, John attended the Partners In Health board meeting with global health leaders from Mexico, Rwanda, Peru, New Jersey and elsewhere, and met Vicky Reed, head of Partners In Health Sierra Leone. — 00:01:12
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Since 2019 the community has made a long-term, open-ended commitment to pay attention to and raise funds for Sierra Leone's maternal and child health care system. — 00:01:24
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John: In Kono, the district where Partners In Health began working in 2019, maternal mortality has fallen further: Koidu Government Hospital has seen a reduction close to 80% since 2019. — 00:02:40
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John: About 2,000 more mothers survive childbirth every year in Sierra Leone than in 2019, when the brothers' project with Partners In Health began. — 00:03:16
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John: At the Sierra Leonean government's invitation, Partners In Health's model is being recreated in five districts, with hopes of eventually covering all 16 districts. — 00:03:40
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John thanks those who donated at pih.org/hankandjohn, bought from Good Store, or, just as vitally, gave their attention and interest over the last five years. — 00:04:14
  • 2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry — Hank worries about the community, his health, the DFTBA, Good Store and Complexly teams, meeting obligations to Partners In Health, and how all this relies on their reputations. — 00:02:09

2025

  • 2025-01-17 · How the P4A is Changing in 2025! — announcement: Hank says that, as for many years, half the money goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health and half to charities viewers vote for. — 00:02:35
  • 2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank says half the money from this channel supports up-and-coming online educators and the other half goes to Partners In Health. — 00:05:55
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — announcement: John says he is proud that half the money raised during the Project for Awesome will go to Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — announcement: Hank says half of the money raised during the Project for Awesome will support the work of Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank says these organizations need support more now than they have in quite a while. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank says both organizations sometimes receive USAID funding and both serve populations that USAID also serves. — 00:00:16
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank says Save the Children and Partners In Health both now have more work to do and less money to do it with. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank says that for those able to give there are many good reasons to give now, since everything these organizations do is vitally important. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says talking and strategizing about it in community is more encouraging than sitting at home, and he is glad to meet TB fighters and Partners In Health staff in every city. — 00:04:52
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — Hank concludes that making white-noise videos is a good business to be in, and wonders what it would be like to be in it for Partners In Health. — 00:00:23
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — announcement: Hank has made a long recording of the waterfall, will upload it to the Vlogbrothers channel and will donate all the money the video makes to Partners In Health. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — announcement: Hank: The video will carry one ad plus YouTube Premium revenue, easy to calculate; Hank will grab its stats every six months and make the donation to Partners In Health. — 00:00:47
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — Hank says Partners In Health could really use the money right now. — 00:00:55
  • 2025-03-28 · White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!! — announcement: The description says all of the money from this video goes to support Partners In Health. — video description
  • 2025-03-28 · White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!! — Hank calls Partners In Health extremely effective at building healthcare systems in impoverished communities. — video description
  • 2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says that last week (week of 28 April 2025) he and Sarah were in Lima, Peru, with Partners In Health, known in Peru as Socios En Salud, to learn about tuberculosis screening and care. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says PIH is good at providing blueprints governments can expand: mobile x-ray vans and backpack x-ray machines began as PIH-only projects and were taken up by the Ministry of Health. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John: PIH helped fund the endTB trials in Peru, which showed shorter drug regimens can cure drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB; the Ministry of Health adopted them, so treatment means fewer pills for less time. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says innovations at Socios En Salud sites range from a simple walkway where TB survivors pace to test for post-TB lung disease to AI-assisted chest x-rays and advanced laboratories. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says the main reason he is proud to work with PIH is that the person matters: the care in health care. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John recalls that in a 2019 video he announced his family's $6.5 million donation to build and maintain a maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says dozens of viewers came together to build a matching fund so every dollar donated monthly could be matched. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says all those efforts combined raised the needed $20 million and then some. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says, thanks to the government and groups like PIH, Sierra Leone's lifetime maternal death risk fell from 1 in 17 to around 1 in 74, an over 60% reduction, though still too high. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the facility would not exist without Nerdfighteria, which raised the literal majority of the funds needed. — 00:03:33
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says it also needed the Ministry of Health's support: PIH is not building a parallel health system, and the facility belongs to Sierra Leoneans through their government. — 00:03:33
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John credits other PIH donors and the construction staff, mostly women from Kono district who learned new skills and worked incredibly hard to build it. — 00:04:02
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John: Repeating what he said in 2019, John says long-term systemic problems demand long-term systemic responses, so ongoing support is needed. — 00:04:32
  • 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — ask: John says support is needed more than ever: donating at pih.org/hankandjohn, buying socks or soap, and also donating attention. — 00:05:01
  • 2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die — Hank says the community's work in Sierra Leone means fewer women are already dying in childbirth, a very quiet victory. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — ask: The description links ways to call and email members of Congress, sign up for TB Fighters email alerts, and join a call-a-thon about rescissions. — video description
  • 2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John: A later channel comment says 'it's working': PIH hears enough moderate House Republicans told Speaker Johnson they oppose PEPFAR cuts that the White House will amend the package; keep calling. — creator comment
  • 2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — ask: John asks viewers to call their representatives now, using PIH scripts linked below or their own words, to say the world needs PEPFAR and the Global Fund. — 00:04:52
  • 2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — announcement: Hank: After a call with Partners In Health, Hank announces they have raised the $50 million it takes to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone and get it running. — 00:06:49
  • 2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — Hank says about a third of the money was raised by Partners In Health, a third donated directly by the community, one-time or recurring, and the final third mostly Good Store profits. — 00:07:18
  • 2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — announcement: John says he is glad that Keats & Co., "this little coffee and tea company", has now raised over $1 million for life-saving tuberculosis care in impoverished communities. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-09-29 · PIZZAMAS IS UPON US! — John says they donate 100% of their Pizzamas proceeds to Partners In Health. — 00:04:31
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says the community realized early that the internet responds well to sudden disasters but not to ongoing ones, such as very high maternal mortality in parts of Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: Partners In Health treated MDR-TB in Peru, proving it curable in a famous Lancet study; costs then fell to about $3,000, since none of the drugs were under patent, and the WHO began recommending treatment. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: A couple of weeks ago the Stop TB Partnership announced that curing MDR-TB now costs less than $300, a price drop of over 99% since PIH began proving it curable in poor communities. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says that in Sierra Leone over the same period maternal mortality has dropped by over 60%. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: A decade ago Koidu Government Hospital in Kono had no 24-hour electricity, running water, blood bank or working x-ray machine, few medicines, little or no paid staff, and so very few patients. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says the hospital now has all of that and much more, and as a result maternal mortality there has declined precipitously. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — announcement: John says maternal mortality at the hospital will decline further with the opening next month (November 2025) of the Maternal Center of Excellence there. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says this is primarily the result of the Sierra Leonean government investing in health and health workers, but private philanthropy, including all viewers, played an important role. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John tells viewers who bought a Pizzamas shirt, donated monthly to Partners In Health or encouraged others to care about maternal mortality that they played a role in this story. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-10-09 · I Like Being Alive — John says these questions shape real choices: stay home with family or go to a conference; raise the most money for PIH through Pizzamas, or do good by lobbying Congress or talking about what he cares about. — 00:01:59
  • 2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says the Guimaras TB elimination project is funded mostly by the Philippine government and partly by Sarah and John, with support from Partners In Health. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — announcement: John says USAID abandoned its commitment to fund part of the project, but PIH, Sarah and John stayed committed because the Philippine government did. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John reports that this month (October 2025) about 5% of the island's people have been screened for TB, leading to over 750 diagnoses and much preventive care. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — ask: The description invites viewers to learn about the Maternal Center of Excellence and support Partners In Health in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
  • 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank recalls that shortly after John's first video from Sierra Leone six years ago, the brothers pledged to raise $25 million for a hospital without knowing how, and exceeded the goal. — 00:05:47
  • 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the money came from hundreds of thousands of sock sales, dozens of major gifts, a store that donates its profit, and many Nerdfighters giving once or monthly. — 00:05:47
  • 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — announcement: Hank announces that the ribbon has just been cut at the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, thanking the community, Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health. — 00:06:16
  • 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says PIH and the Ministry of Health work with the community to make it last: employing local women in construction, training health workers, building sustainable infrastructure. — 00:07:43
  • 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the real work is done on the ground by wonderful people, and he is grateful to them and to everyone who supported the project, even by watching. — 00:07:43
  • 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John reminds himself that, as Hank noted last week (week of 3 November 2025), the ribbon has been cut on the completed Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — ask: John: Asked how best to support Partners In Health, John says by far the best way is a monthly or one-time donation at pih.org, or pih.org/hankandjohn for the MCOE specifically. — 00:02:35
  • 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — ask: John says it is also valuable to talk to friends and family about Partners In Health or about global health inequity more broadly. — 00:02:35
  • 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says Good Store, another way to support Partners In Health and the Coral Reef Alliance, raised about $10 million over the last five years to fight maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:04
  • 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — announcement: John presents Good Store's holiday bundles in three categories: socks and Sun Basin soap, candles and bath bombs fund the MCOE; coffee and tea fight TB; EcoGeek products fund the Coral Reef Alliance. — 00:03:34
  • 2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says advocacy has shown it can make a difference, in initial drafts of the US aid budget for 2026 and in Canada's pledge to the Global Fund. — 00:55:08
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — announcement: John presents Keats & Co., a coffee and tea company supporting comprehensive TB care in Lesotho: peppermint and Blooming Wild Black teas, Octavia and Calypso coffees, Paradoxica decaf, teacups and a tea strainer. — 00:02:03
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — announcement: John explains where purchases go: Keats & Co. coffee and tea supports TB care in Lesotho; socks, underwear and Sun Basin Soap support the Maternal Center of Excellence; EcoGeek supports the Coral Reef Alliance. — 00:24:21
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John says his heart wants money to go to AFC Wimbledon but his head is stronger: it should go to Partners In Health, since Wimbledon, a third-tier English team, does some good but not that much. — 00:40:05
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Hank helped fund the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu's government hospital, which triples the region's maternal beds and gives Sierra Leone its first ever NICU. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-12-12 · The Economics of a YouTube White Noise Video — announcement: Hank recalls his idea: donate any money the white-noise video made, from its first ad or YouTube Premium watch time, to Partners In Health, which he knows does a lot of good work. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-12-12 · The Economics of a YouTube White Noise Video — Hank says the analytics show the video has raised over $10,000 for Partners In Health since upload. — 00:01:27

2026

  • 2026-01-09 · There is Only One Source of Value — Hank says that is why years ago the brothers began working with Partners In Health and Save the Children during the Project for Awesome: they reject the idea that some lives are worth more. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!) — announcement: Hank says half the money goes to charities advocated for and voted on by the community, the other half split between Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-02-06 · One week until P4A! — John says half the money raised goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children. — 00:00:25
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John thanks the P4A 2026 matching donors (Partners In Health, Save the Children and hundreds of Nerdfighters) and the people who run the fund, including his father Mike Green. — 00:27:16
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John reports that the Partners In Health matching gift is maxed out, so each dollar now counts as $2.50. — 00:50:17
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John explains that P4A money pays for community health workers and children's services in refugee communities through Partners In Health and Save the Children, plus charities the community votes for. — 00:51:13
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John announces he will host the next two hours of the P4A while Hank rests, joined by Dr. Joia Mukherjee of Partners In Health. — 01:05:49
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — ask: Hank points viewers to the P4A videos at projectforawesome.com: half the money goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health and half to charities the community votes for. — 01:13:07
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says they have worked with Partners In Health and Save the Children for over 15 years and trust them: extraordinary organizations expanding access to healthcare and nutrition for the most vulnerable. — 01:13:35
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says that in the last two years the price of curing multidrug-resistant TB fell by over 60%, to under $300, whereas it cost tens of thousands of dollars when Partners In Health began treating it. — 01:40:38
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says P4A donations support structural change and individual lives like his friend Henry Reider, in the chat, whom he wrote Everything Is Tuberculosis about and who would not be alive without Partners In Health. — 01:42:50
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John thinks this is the 15th or 16th year the P4A has supported Partners In Health. (hedged) — 01:43:19
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: Hank explains that the P4A raises money through a Tiltify campaign and other ways, and that half of it goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health, two extraordinarily effective global health organizations. — 06:01:35
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the 2026 P4A has far more matching money than ever but less from Partners In Health, which slows the overall donation rate but keeps matching going much longer, each dollar counting as $2.50. — 06:41:16
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank explains that the Project for Awesome splits the money it raises: half goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health, half to organizations the community votes for. — 01:19:43
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says half the money donated to the 2026 Project for Awesome goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children, and the other half to charities voted on by viewers. — 07:03:13
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: In 2019 Partners In Health told John that $25 million was needed even to break ground on the maternal hospital in Sierra Leone, and he almost had a panic attack. — 00:03:54
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John announces that a couple of hours earlier the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital in Kono District, Sierra Leone, delivered its first baby. — 00:04:18
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — ask: John says voting at projectforawesome.com stays open for three days: half the money raised goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children, half to charities chosen by viewers, so they should watch P4A videos and vote. — 02:39:24
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Asked how to volunteer at the Maternal Center of Excellence, John says he does not know; he thinks the focus now is training local people, and suggests asking Partners In Health. (unsure) — 02:40:17
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John asks people not to donate if they cannot afford it: deciding where the money goes matters as much as raising it, since the P4A has always crowdfunded the money and crowdsourced its destination, from big organizations to small ones. — 03:01:29
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John thanks the Partners In Health matching donor, who gave $100,000, the Save the Children matching donors, who gave $500,000, and about 700 Nerdfighters who formed a $1.5 million matching fund matching donations up to $1.492 million. (hedged) — 03:22:50
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John pledges they will not buy a yacht with the money: the Foundation to Decrease World Suck is a real charity, and donations fund community health workers, education for kids in refugee camps and charities chosen by the community. — 04:06:30
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank: After John suggests the money might buy a Lil Yachty house show, Hank offers to come to someone's home and perform for $3.75 million donated to Partners In Health, or for less. (joke) — 04:07:39
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John says people can now get safe emergency C-sections at the Maternal Center of Excellence, which has a functioning NICU for the first time in the history of Sierra Leone, a game-changing difference in maternal and infant health care in the Kono region and beyond. — 04:08:59
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank explains how the money works: it all goes into the Foundation to Decrease World Suck; after paying perk shipping costs, half the pool goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children and half is shared among the organizations voted for at projectforawesome.com, and the Foundation zeroes out its bank account every year. — 05:03:22
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — ask: The description asks viewers for a one-time or monthly donation to keep the MCOE funded, staffed and training healthcare workers, at act.pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank recalls that at the 2011 Project for Awesome they pledged $10,000 to Partners In Health for its work in Haiti for a number of comments, he thinks their first direct gift to PIH. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank recalls that a few years later John told him of a big idea: responding not to a sudden disaster but to a long-term one that was just the way things had been. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says they promised Partners In Health to raise tens of millions of dollars and made a spreadsheet of how, which proved very wrong and which he cannot find. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says they oriented a lot of the Project for Awesome toward Partners In Health. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says a huge amount of the money came from asking people to become small monthly donors to Partners In Health, which thousands did. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says Partners In Health showed high-dollar donors what the community was doing, inspiring them to give more. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says Paul Farmer, who inspired all this, started Partners In Health believing the idea that some lives are worth more than others is the root of all wrong. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — announcement: Hank announces that this weekend, during P4A, which was instrumental in building the Paul E. Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, the first baby was born in Sierra Leone's first NICU. — 00:03:49
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — announcement: John says the Paul Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence finally opened at Koidu Government Hospital, radically transforming infant and maternal care in eastern Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says Partners In Health wanted to help Sierra Leone's government because everyone else called the country too risky: fragile systems, fear of war or economic collapse. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says that as a community they made that bet, and so far it has worked. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — ask: John says they need viewers' support at pih.org/hankandjohn, just as five years ago. — 00:04:22
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John: Thanking Hank and everyone who took the risk, John says 13 babies were born on the MCOE's very first day. — 00:04:52
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says taking that risk has already paid off on a level none of their previous risks ever could. — 00:04:52
  • 2026-03-06 · How Do You Create When You Don't Feel Safe — Hank reminds viewers that the Maternal Center of Excellence has opened and was funded in part by Good.Store. — 00:06:18
  • 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says Keats & Co. delivers coffee and tea to your home and donates 100% of the profit to fight tuberculosis in impoverished communities. — 00:04:44
  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — ask: John invites viewers to his livestream at 3 p.m. Eastern, linked in the doobly-doo, to discuss the community's fundraising to fight TB in Lesotho. — 00:05:02
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John announces the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital has passed its first major milestone: its 500th baby delivered, in just a few months. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John is reminded that long-term problems demand long-term solutions: after seven years with Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, they are seeing the transformation. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says mothers and children who could have died now survive every week in Kono, and the community has played a small but significant role. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — ask: The description asks viewers to support the project directly at pih.org/hankandjohn or through Good Store. — video description
  • 2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John recalls that on his first visit in 2019 KGH, already improved with PIH support, had running water and 24-hour electricity but no ultrasound or diabetes treatment, and far fewer patients. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says the wards are crowded because they give real care, with the staff, stuff and systems to save lives: the first difference PIH makes is building and maintaining hospitals where you come to get well. — 00:01:56
  • 2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says 500 babies were born at the MCOE in its first six weeks of operation, including over 200 C-sections, many of them emergencies that might otherwise have meant maternal and child death. — 00:05:37
  • 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: In Sierra Leone last week (week of 27 April 2026) John kept thinking of Hank and the thousands who donate monthly at pih.org/hankandjohn, most of whom have never been there. — 00:02:14
  • 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says most of those, Hank and Katherine included, who raised over $30 million for the MCOE and other efforts against maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone have never been there. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John: Answering a commenter, John says half of the YouTube money goes to Partners In Health and the other half to a fund supporting educational video projects. — creator comment
  • 2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — ask: The description asks viewers to support the Maternal Center of Excellence at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
  • 2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — announcement: John: The 2,000th baby has been born at the Nerdfighteria-supported the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone since it opened in February; all will have access to vaccination at Koidu Government Hospital or local clinics. — 00:05:21
  • 2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — ask: The description invites viewers who want to support Partners In Health's fight against tuberculosis to check out its work. — video description
  • 2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — ask: The description invites viewers to learn about the brothers' project to help Partners In Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
  • 2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank thanks everyone who has supported Partners In Health or Save the Children over the years; much good has been done. — 00:09:44
  • 2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John says Sun Basin Soap has donated millions of dollars to support the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:15
  • 2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views — Hank says views may suit brand deals, but Vlogbrothers does none: they make things with people, such as artists' Pizzamas shirts whose money goes to Partners In Health. — 00:08:15
  • 2026-09-28 · Death. Taxes. Pizzamas. — John says no one is paying him to praise the shirts, because 100% of the Pizzamas royalties go to support Partners In Health. — 00:02:14
  • 2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world — ask: The description asks viewers to get their Pizzamas at pizzamas.com, noting that all the value Pizzamas captures goes to Partners In Health. — video description
  • 2026-10-07 · The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species — announcement: Hank announces that Pizzamas has officially broken even, so every further purchase adds to what goes to Partners In Health. — 00:03:36
  • 2026-10-08 · The Test of a First Rate Intelligence — ask: John asks viewers to get Pizzamas items at pizzamas.com, available only for the next few days; all proceeds go to Partners In Health. — 00:01:28
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank: Beyond easing stress, Hank doesn't need to receive the money himself, so raising money for Partners In Health is also very rewarding. — 00:08:48
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank says Pizzamas pays artists and product designers to make amazing pizza stuff, available for the last time, with the profit donated to Partners In Health. — 00:08:58