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Partners In Health

charity · in 175 videos (2010–2026)

The brothers' largest partner charity: a Project for Awesome beneficiary, working with them on maternal health in Sierra Leone since 2019.

Includes: Bepi Raviola · Works: Unchain (podcast)

Videos by year: 2010: 2 · 2014: 10 · 2015: 1 · 2016: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2019: 15 · 2020: 15 · 2021: 13 · 2022: 17 · 2023: 21 · 2024: 20 · 2025: 24 · 2026: 26

Also known as: PIH

Threads

Also named in the threads: The Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle (2010) · John asks viewers to donate to P4A 2010 charities at projectforawesome.com (2010) · Hank's 'million dollar idea' phone calls to John (2013) · John's AFC Wimbledon FIFA series on HankGames, whose ad revenue sponsors the real AFC Wimbledon with Nerdfighter-designed ads (2013) · Vlogbrothers pre-roll ads and the Vlogbrothers Creator Grants (2014) · Dear Hank and John: the brothers' advice podcast (2015) · Awesome Socks Club: monthly sock subscription (2016) · P4A 2016 edition · John asks would-be large donors (over $1,000) to email hankandjohn@gmail.com to join the P4A 2016 matching fund (2016) · P4A 2022 edition · Life's Library book club: launch and first year (2018) · Pizzamas 2018 edition · John invites viewers to join Life's Library at lifeslibrarybookclub.com (2019) · John: edit and host 46 episodes of a new Crash Course History series about Europe (2019) · John: as a teaching hospital the Maternal Center of Excellence will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers (2019) · John asks donors of $1,000 or more to join the P4A 2019 matching fund by emailing ftdws@complexly.com (2019) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will dramatically change the quality of care for women and children in its region (2020) · John and Sarah's 2019 trip to Sierra Leone and its hospitals (2019) · John (with Sarah): host regular livestreams on Vlogbrothers and The Art Assignment, starting the next day (2020) · John: Koidu Government Hospital's special baby care unit will open later in July 2020 (2020) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence should dramatically accelerate progress in care at Koidu (2020) · Hank asks viewers to sign up for, or gift, the 2021 Awesome Socks Club at awesomesocks.club/vlogbrothers before December 11 (2020) · P4A 2021 edition · Nerdfighteria Census 2021 edition · Hank asks donors of more than $500 to join the P4A 2026 matching fund at projectforawesome.com/matching (2026) · Awesome Coffee Club: the brothers' coffee subscription for charity (2022) · Good Store: the brothers' store and subscription box at good.store giving all profit to charity (2023) · John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) · John attends and speaks at the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (2023) · Pizzamas 2023 edition

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Sierra Leone (85) · Save the Children (51) · Maternal Center of Excellence (45) · maternal death (45) · Koidu Government Hospital (27) · Project for Awesome (62) · tuberculosis (40) · global health (17) · child mortality (22) · Awesome Socks Club (16)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2010

  • 2010-04-26 · Nerdfighters, They Named a PLANE After Us — announcement: John: Nerdfighters with the HP Alliance raised enough to fill four planes with medicine and water for Haiti; the fourth and final plane leaves Thursday, and Partners in Health calls it the SS DFTBA. — 00:01:38
  • 2010-12-17 · PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health — announcement: John: Citing his known hatred of pennies, John says he and Hank will donate one penny for every P4A comment, up to one million comments, to Save the Children and Partners in Health. — 00:00:28
    • John also cites flying the SS DFTBA, full of life-saving supplies, to Haiti with the Harry Potter Alliance and Partners in Health. — 00:01:41
    • John repeats that each P4A comment, up to a million, is worth a penny to Partners in Health or Save the Children, and asks viewers to donate at projectforawesome.com. — 00:02:16

2014

  • 2014-11-18 · How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again — announcement: Hank: Because of the Paper Towns shoot dates, the Project for Awesome is moving up this year (2014), to December 12 and 13. — 00:03:50
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — announcement: Nat Wolff announces the P4A will be on December 12 and 13, not its usual time around his December 17 birthday, because that is the end of the Paper Towns shoot. — 00:01:06
    • John proposes that day one of the P4A raise money for three organizations known to be excellent and efficient against global poverty and disease, attracting matching donations and fighting a known cause of world suck. — 00:02:41
    • John proposes that day two raise money for charities chosen by Nerdfighteria, with meaningful discussions in P4A video comments instead of comment-spamming. — 00:02:55
  • 2014-12-08 · I'm Home! Time to Get Ready for the 2014 Project for Awesome — announcement: John says the Project for Awesome starts in five days and he made this bonus video so everyone in Nerdfighteria is ready. — 00:00:22
    • John announces a trial: day-one donations are split between Save the Children and Partners in Health, longtime Nerdfighteria partners highly rated for efficient work on poverty and disease. — 00:01:39
    • John says the day-one split will decrease world suck and unlock at least about $250,000 in matching donations. — 00:01:59
  • 2014-12-12 · NONSENSE: P4A 2014 - Partners in Health — recommendation: Hank says Partners in Health does heroic life-saving work, now and for a hundred years ahead, and is a big part of the success story of wider health-care access and less suffering, which supporters join. — 00:00:57
    • Hank says money from the first half of P4A is split between Partners in Health and Save the Children, with matching for the first $500,000, making a million dollars if reached by Saturday (13 December 2014) noon; second-half money goes by vote. — 00:01:16
  • 2014-12-16 · Jelly Face, Sharpie Face, Peanut Butter Face, and Mummy Dancers: The 2014 Project for Awesome — John says P4A 2014 has raised over $1.2 million for charity, by far the most successful P4A ever; at the end he cheers "$1 million… actually like 200,000 more". — 00:00:36
  • 2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — John: The livestream total passes one million dollars and John celebrates: 'we did it'. — 00:02:02
    • Hank thanks everyone for P4A 2014: six trending hashtags, dozens of guests donating tens of thousands of perks, hundreds of thousands of votes on 900+ videos, and $1,282,750 raised. — 00:03:33
  • …and 16 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

2015

  • 2015-01-13 · On Writing, Looking for Alaska Turning 10, and Winning the Project for Awesome — John says the half of the 2014 Project for Awesome that raised money for Save the Children and Partners in Health raised over $700,000. — 00:02:22
    • John announces the ten charities that, by viewers' votes at projectforawesome.com, will each receive $25,000 from the 2014 Project for Awesome. — 00:02:35
    • John says smaller grants of still over $10,000 go to the next ten charities chosen by Nerdfighteria, and names them. — 00:03:16

2016

  • 2016-11-01 · BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome) — announcement: John says the first half of the P4A raises money for pre-selected charities, this year (2016) Save the Children and Partners in Health, long-time partners of the community. — 00:02:28 · also in: Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report
    • John says the community has seen the impact of its donations to the two charities from Bangladesh to Haiti, Ethiopia, the United States and refugee camps in Jordan. — 00:02:39
  • 2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum — announcement: John says all money raised in the first half of the P4A will be split between Save the Children and Partners In Health, which do amazing work helping the most vulnerable children and families. — 00:00:42
    • John announces that a group of Nerdfighters with Hank and him offers $300,000 in matching donations, and donors from Partners In Health and Save the Children also match, so every dollar donated from midnight is worth $4; he thanks the matching donors. — 00:00:59
  • 2016-12-09 · The Difference A Decade Makes: The 10th Annual Project for Awesome Is Here! — announcement: John says the first half of P4A raises money for Save the Children and Partners In Health, two of the most highly regarded and efficient nonprofits in global health and education. — 00:00:16 · also in: We Are Cats Now, I Guess?, When You Can't Fix Everything…
    • John says ten years ago Rwanda's Burera district had no hospitals; today it has one with a cancer center and a neonatal intensive care unit, and Partners In Health led the drive to build, fund and staff both hospitals. — 00:00:41
    • John says Partners In Health trains and employs community health workers around the world, like Muhammad from Sierra Leone and tens of thousands of people like him. — 00:00:54
    • John says it is pretty astonishing how effective this work has been. — 00:01:07
    • John says the challenge remains overwhelming, but support lets Save the Children and Partners In Health hire more community health workers, build more hospitals and schools, and reunite more families. — 00:02:42
  • 2016-12-13 · P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!! — Hank thanks those who added to the P4A 2016 matching fund: a generous Partners In Health donor gave the $400,000 match for Partners In Health, and individual donors and families matched gifts to both charities in the first and second halves. — video description

2018

  • 2018-01-19 · Many Years Ago, Someone Gave Me a Whole Bitcoin...then I lost it. — Hank: The brothers sold the Bitcoin immediately and donated the proceeds to Partners In Health; Hank thanks Sean. — 00:01:00
    • Hank knows Partners In Health adds value to the world, doing amazing work with passion and intelligence, so he would rather they have his Bitcoin. — 00:02:53
    • Hank recommends the article about Partners In Health linked in the description, a wonderful half hour; John shared it and it changed how Hank thinks about a lot. — 00:03:02
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — recommendation: John says Hank mentioned the New Yorker profile of Partners In Health co-founder Ophelia Dahl last week (week of 15 January 2018), and since reading it John has been thinking about Ebola. — 00:00:01
  • 2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — John admires Partners In Health because it is systems-focused: it does not drop in with solutions but listens to and invests in communities. — 00:03:15
    • Nerdfighteria has been working with Partners In Health for a decade. — 00:03:16
  • 2018-10-16 · Life's Library — announcement: John: All profits from Life's Library go to Partners In Health, which they have worked with for over a decade and which provides health care to the poor. — 00:02:16
  • 2018-10-29 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — announcement: John: This year (2018) all Pizzamas profits and royalties go to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, to be used as matching funds during the Project for Awesome. — 00:00:31
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — announcement: John says more of the brothers' Nerdfighteria work is shifting to supporting charity: Pizzamas royalties go to the Foundation and proceeds of Life's Library, his book club with Rosianna, to Partners In Health. — 00:01:05
  • 2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says the community has worked with Partners In Health and Save the Children for over ten years, supporting Save the Children's work in refugee camps and its health, education and nutrition help for children. — 00:02:26 · also in: Project for Awesome 2026 part 5!
    • John says Partners In Health does extraordinary work providing health care to the poor from Sierra Leone to Haiti. — 00:02:38
    • John says all donations during the first half of the P4A, until noon Saturday, go to support these two charities. — 00:02:47
  • …and 3 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2019

  • 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
  • 2019-04-09 · 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
  • 2019-04-23 · 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
  • 2019-10-01 · 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
    • 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 · also in: Risk Is a Privilege
  • 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
  • 2019-10-22 · 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
  • 2019-10-25 · 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
  • 2019-11-26 · 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
  • 2019-12-03 · 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 — 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
  • …and 52 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

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

2020

  • 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 · also in: Looking Back at My 2020 Goals
    • 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
  • 2020-01-21 · 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 total commitments are now close to $13 million, which is amazing, but there is still a ways to go. — 00:05:16
    • 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
  • 2020-07-21 · 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
  • 2020-08-03 · 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
    • 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
  • 2020-12-29 · 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
    • 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
  • …and 38 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2021-08-17 · 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
    • 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
  • 2021-09-03 · 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
  • 2021-12-21 · 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
    • 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
  • …and 13 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2022

  • 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Since then thousands of viewers have become monthly donors, and hundreds more formed a matching fund so every monthly dollar is matched. — 00:00:58
    • With PIH's own fundraising and support from Life's Library and the Awesome Socks Club, ground has broken on the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-02-08 · How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes) — announcement: John says half the money went to the brothers' Partners In Health project to reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone; the rest was split between a Complexly educational fund and a fund for emerging educational creators. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Told nothing could be done about one in 17 Sierra Leonean women dying in pregnancy or childbirth, Farmer said otherwise; so the community came to support PIH's maternal and child care center at Koidu. — 00:02:26
  • 2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — Joia Mukherjee (quoted): Dr. Mukherjee said charities leaving when the crisis ended would leave Sierra Leone's health system more fragile, so PIH was going and staying, to build a stronger system for the next catastrophe. — 00:02:26
    • Dr. Mukherjee asked them to stay too, and John says that request changed his life. — 00:02:26
  • 2022-05-06 · Why I Didn't Quit YouTube (yet) — Hank says the Awesome Socks Club has donated over a million dollars to Partners In Health for the brothers' work in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:26
  • 2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: System strengthening can radically reduce maternal mortality: as Sierra Leone's health system grows stronger, partly through the community's investments, maternal mortality there fell over 10% in five years. — 00:02:26
  • 2022-06-14 · Should Hank and I ... box each other?? — John concludes the brothers should spend the next nine months writing books, making educational videos and raising money for Partners In Health rather than training to box, a shame since he could have been a contender. (hedged) — 00:03:24
  • 2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — announcement: John: Thanks to increased support, the Kayima clinic is being renovated and is hiring and training staff to become a safe place to deliver babies and refer complicated cases to the hospital. — 00:03:03
  • 2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says the community, working with Partners In Health, is now on pace to raise over $35 million in the first five years of the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
    • John reports that despite supply-chain challenges the Maternal Center of Excellence has begun construction, though it is a long way from finished. — 00:00:58
  • …and 52 statements more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

2023

  • 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 — 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2023-05-23 · 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 — 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
    • 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
  • 2023-10-17 · 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 · also in: The world will change.
  • 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
  • …and 24 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2024

  • 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 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
  • 2024-03-12 · 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
  • 2024-03-19 · 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
  • 2024-06-11 · 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
  • 2024-09-10 · 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
  • 2024-10-30 · 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
  • 2024-11-19 · 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
  • 2024-11-26 · 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
  • …and 52 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

2025

2026

  • 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 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 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! — 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
  • 2026-02-20 · 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
  • 2026-02-24 · 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
  • 2026-04-28 · 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
  • 2026-08-25 · 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
  • 2026-09-18 · 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
  • 2026-10-07 · 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
  • …and 55 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026