P4A 2011 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2012-03-13) · last mentioned: 2012-12-11
The 2011 Project for Awesome, held on 17 and 18 December, brought back the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and let viewers vote for the charities. It raised about $75,000 in two days, and the money was later split between five charities chosen by Nerdfighteria.
Parts: Hank: auction the poster signed by the VidCon 2011 speakers at the Project for Awesome (2011) · Nerdfighteria Community T-shirt at DFTBA.com, royalties to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011) · Keep It or Shave It: Hank's facial-hair vote with dollars for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011) · Hank asks viewers to make, curate and promote P4A 2011 videos on December 17-18 (2011) · John (with Hank): match Nerdfighters' donations to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck up to the first $10,000 (2011) · Hank asks viewers to vote at projectforawesome.com for the charities of P4A 2011 videos they like (2011) · Hank asks viewers to donate to the P4A 2011 Fund at projectforawesome.com or fightworldsuck.org (2011) · Hank asks viewers to follow the P4A 2011 live show at youtube.com/vlogbrothers (2011) · Hank asks viewers to check out the P4A 2011 eBay auction items at projectforawesome.com (2011) · Hank asks viewers to sign up for the P4A mailing list (2011) · Hank: personalize each of his auctioned wall posters and send it to its buyer (P4A 2011) · John asks viewers to buy Alex Day's Forever Yours remixes for charity (P4A 2011) · John points viewers to his playlist of ten favourite P4A 2011 videos (2011) · Hank: release a picture of himself as an eight-year-old, a P4A 2011 challenge · John: cover his face in Sharpie when P4A 2011 donations reach $50,000
Other editions: P4A 2008 edition · P4A 2009 edition · P4A 2010 edition · P4A 2012 edition · P4A 2013 edition · P4A 2014 edition · P4A 2015 edition · P4A 2016 edition · P4A 2017 edition · P4A 2018 edition · P4A 2019 edition · P4A 2021 edition · P4A 2022 edition · P4A 2023 edition · P4A 2024 edition · P4A 2025 edition · P4A 2026 edition
Told alongside: Hank asks Nerdfighters to go a little bit vegetarian in June (2011) · Foundation to Decrease World Suck becomes a real non-profit (2012) · Foundation to Decrease World Suck: the Brotherhood 2.0 fund (2007)
About: Project for Awesome, Foundation to Decrease World Suck, Kiva, Kids in Need of Desks, This Star Won't Go Out (charity), The Harry Potter Alliance, Water.org
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-11-02 | announced | John announces that P4A 2011 will bring back the Foundation to Decrease World Suck: Nerdfighteria pools money and decides together how to spend it to decrease the most world suck. | LECTROJOG! 00:01:07 |
| 2011-11-09 | announced | Hank announces the Project for Awesome is happening again this year (2011), on December 17th. | 27 Part Video 00:02:40 |
| 2011-11-11 | milestone | With the brothers' match, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck has already raised more than $8,000, to be distributed through the Project for Awesome. | The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:01:23 |
| 2011-11-28 | announced | Hank announces the Project for Awesome will happen again, as every year, on December 17th and 18th. | Stuffed with STUFF! 00:03:24 |
| 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) | milestone | Hank reports the money raised for P4A 2011 is already over $10,000. | Our Grandfather 00:03:27 |
| 2011-12-16 | announced | Hank sets out P4A 2011 logistics: videos go up at noon Eastern on Saturday December 17th; donations go into the P4A Fund, distributed to the most-voted charities at projectforawesome.com; videos are tagged P4A and P4A 2011 and submitted on the site. | Project for Awesome Logistics 00:00:00 |
| 2011-12-19 | outcome | John reports P4A 2011 results: $75,000 for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck in 48 hours, over $100,000 with other projects, thousands of videos and millions of views. | Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath 00:00:03 |
| 2011-12-26 | rule change | Hank decides to split Kiva's share in half: one half for running Kiva.org, the other for loans to entrepreneurs. | Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail 00:00:29 |
| 2011-12-26 | outcome | Hank reports each of the five winning charities will get $14,269.22, the $71,000-ish fund divided by five. | Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail 00:00:58 |
| 2012-03-13 | outcome | John reports the Foundation gave all its money away: more than $16,500 to each of five charities chosen by Nerdfighteria, and thanks Nerdfighters for their Project for Awesome work. | Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report 00:00:59 |
| 2012-12-11 | looked back | John reports that after last year's (2011) P4A the Foundation to Decrease World Suck donated more than $80,000 to five charities chosen by the YouTube community. | Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS 00:00:29 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
25 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — announcement: John announces that as part of P4A 2011 the Foundation to Decrease World Suck comes back, with no stupid stuff: Nerdfighteria will pool money and choose together how to spend it to decrease the most world suck. — 00:01:07
- 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — ask: Hank: The Project for Awesome happens again on December 17th and 18th; Hank asks viewers to make, curate and promote videos then and clear their schedules. — 00:03:24
- 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — announcement: Hank: Videos will be submitted at projectforawesome.com, not fully working until P4A begins at noon on December 17th; people, Hank included, are already making their P4A videos. — 00:02:58
- 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — announcement: Hank: Viewers will be able to vote for the charities in P4A videos; the most-voted charities get a piece of the money being raised for P4A, already over $10,000. — 00:03:27
- 2011-12-12 (said on 2011-12-11, implied) · Our Grandfather — announcement: Hank's own Project for Awesome video will come on Saturday, not Friday, because that is when P4A is. — 00:03:27
- 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank: No funny business: the P4A Fund money is distributed to the charities that get the most votes at projectforawesome.com. — 00:00:47
- 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank: ProjectForAwesome.com launches at noon for submitting videos; each video's charity goes into a database and people vote on whether they deem it worthy and like the video. — 00:00:47
- 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank: Video makers should tag 'P4A' and 'P4A 2011', use the P4A thumbnail if they are partners, upload at noon, and submit the video at projectforawesome.com so its charity can get P4A Fund money. — 00:01:16
- 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — announcement: Hank will start off the P4A live stream at noon tomorrow and John will join shortly after. — 00:02:35
- 2011-12-17 · We Built a Well in Haiti — ask: Hank asks viewers to vote for Water.org at projectforawesome.com so it gets a share of the Project for Awesome fund. — 00:01:53
- 2011-12-17 · We Built a Well in Haiti — announcement: Hank will see John on the P4A livestream; an end-screen video explains what the Project for Awesome is and how to take part. — 00:01:53
- 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: Alex Day is donating the proceeds from remixes of his song Forever Yours to charity, which John says will come to $15,000. — 00:00:03
- 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: Other P4A projects also succeeded, such as iJustine's project to get wells built in the developing world and Rosie raising money for the Stroke Association. — 00:00:43
- 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: Added up, the Project for Awesome raised more than $100,000. — 00:00:43
- 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John: The Project for Awesome generated thousands of videos about charities, millions of views, tens of thousands of tweets and hundreds of thousands of comments. — 00:00:43
- 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John says this was the most fun he has had at the Project for Awesome since 2007. — 00:01:13
- 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — announcement: John: The foundation will distribute the money according to how the community decided it should be distributed; more in the coming weeks. — 00:01:13
- 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — announcement: Hank hopes that by Friday (23 December 2011) John will have the Project for Awesome voting results, showing which charities get the money everyone raised. (hedged) — 00:03:07
- 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Hank announces the P4A charities by votes: Kids in Need of Desks fifth (915), Kiva fourth (1,043), the Harry Potter Alliance third (1,393), Water.org second (2,000), This Star Won't Go Out first (2,224). — 00:00:00
- 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Hank credits an amazing video for Kids in Need of Desks, a dark-horse candidate that came out of nowhere, and praises the work. — 00:00:00
- 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — announcement: Hank: Kiva's share will be split: half to running and maintaining Kiva.org, half to loans for entrepreneurs in the developing world. — 00:00:00
- 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Hank: Each of the five charities will receive $14,269.22: the roughly $71,000 raised for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck divided by five. — 00:00:58
- 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says more than $16,500 went to each of five charities chosen by Nerdfighteria: Kids in Need of Desks, This Star Won't Go Out, the HP Alliance, Water.org and Kiva. — 00:00:59
- 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John thanks Nerdfighters for their hard work during the Project for Awesome and points to how much suck was decreased. — 00:01:24
- 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says that after last year's (2011) Project for Awesome the Foundation to Decrease World Suck gave more than $80,000 to five charities chosen by the YouTube community, leaving it broke. — 00:00:29