P4A 2012 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: milestone (2013-03-15) · last mentioned: 2013-12-16
Parts: John asks Nerdfighters to make P4A 2012 videos about charities they care about (2012) · John asks viewers to vote for favorite P4A 2012 videos at projectforawesome.com to decide where the funds go (2012) · Hank asks viewers to sign up for the P4A 2012 mailing list (2012) · John: P4A 2012 mailing-list members will get only email about this year's P4A (2012) · John: donate a penny to charity for every comment on a P4A 2012 video (2012) · John asks viewers to donate to P4A 2012 through its Indiegogo campaign and rewards (2012) · John asks viewers to watch the P4A 2012 livestream and comment on P4A videos (2012) · John: share an e-book of his stories with P4A 2012 contributors (2012) · Hank asks the community to vote on Our Pants whether P4A 2012 money goes to five or ten charities (2012)
Other editions: P4A 2008 edition · P4A 2009 edition · P4A 2010 edition · P4A 2011 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 people to make and submit P4A 2013 videos promoting their favorite charities (2013) · Hank asks viewers to donate to P4A 2013 through its Indiegogo campaign and perks (2013) · Project for Awesome 2007 edition: the final Brotherhood 2.0 project (2007) · Vlogbrothers in 2013: the channel reaches one million subscribers (2013) · Evil Baby Orphanage card game: a game company's Kickstarter campaign (2012)
About: Project for Awesome, YouTube, Foundation to Decrease World Suck, Nerdcrafteria, Indiegogo
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-04 | announced | John introduces the sixth annual Project for Awesome on December 17th: upload videos at noon Eastern, embed them at projectforawesome.com for votes, a 48-hour livestream, and funds to the five most-voted organizations at the all-Nerdfighter board's discretion. | Time for AWESOME 00:01:27 |
| 2012-12-04 | milestone | John reports the P4A 2012 pot already holds more than $15,000 and that four anonymous donors will match donations up to $50,000. | Time for AWESOME 00:02:26 |
| 2012-12-11 | milestone | John reports the Bank of Nerdfighteria's giving arm is refilled ($15,000 plus $60,000 in pledges) and ready for the Project for Awesome. | Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS 00:02:37 |
| 2012-12-14 | announced | Hank sets out P4A 2012 coordination: projectforawesome.com as the central place, the livestream on the Vlogbrothers channel, and a new mailing list. | I Got Nothin… 00:00:55 |
| 2012-12-17 | launched | John announces that the sixth annual Project for Awesome is under way today across YouTube. | THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. 00:00:00 |
| 2012-12-21 | outcome | Hank reports P4A 2012 raised $397,000 on Indiegogo and more than half a million dollars in all, with over 700,000 comments and 15,000 donors. | Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) 00:01:45 |
| 2012-12-28 | outcome | Hank says P4A 2012 raised more money than anybody expected. | Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! 00:01:50 |
| 2012-12-28 | proposed | Hank proposes splitting the P4A 2012 money among ten charities instead of those in the top five P4A videos, as originally planned. (hedged) | Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! 00:01:50 |
| 2013-03-08 | outcome | Hank says P4A 2012 raised over $400,000 and names the ten charities receiving it, after a legally complicated delay. | ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! 00:00:58 |
| 2013-03-15 | milestone | Hank says this video fulfils a P4A perk: a donor who won the right to choose a Vlogbrothers topic asked for something the brothers care about; many perk videos will be unlisted. | Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes 00:00:58 |
| 2013-11-26 (happened 2012) | looked back | John reports last year's (2012) P4A raised more than $400,000 for organizations fighting illiteracy, domestic violence and global poverty, among others. | The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:00:39 |
| 2013-12-16 (happened 2012) | looked back | Hank says P4A raised $400,000 last year (2012). | Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! 00:01:41 |
What is said about it
22 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John introduces the sixth annual Project for Awesome: every year on December 17th the Nerdfighter and YouTube communities come together to decrease world suck. — 00:01:27
- 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says a 48-hour P4A livestream will work to find and promote P4A videos by commenting, liking, favoriting, tweeting and tumblring. — 00:01:56
- 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says money raised for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck goes to the organizations in the five most-voted videos, at the discretion of an all-Nerdfighter P4A board, so a rigged vote cannot win. — 00:01:56
- 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says the P4A already has more than $15,000, thanks to Nerdcrafteria donations and to the Evil Baby Orphanage card game makers, who quietly donated part of their proceeds. — 00:02:26
- 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John announces that four anonymous donors will match every dollar donated to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, up to $50,000. — 00:02:26
- 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says an Indiegogo page will go up around December 16th; donations are not tax deductible, but all proceeds go directly to the P4A charities. — 00:02:55
- 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — announcement: John: Wearing a suit and a Holden Caulfield hat, John delivers the Bank of Nerdfighteria's 'quarterly' report, now more annual, because the Project for Awesome is coming up. — 00:00:00
- 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says the foundation now has $15,000 in the bank plus $60,000 in pledges, which he says should be bigger than last year (2011). (hedged) — 00:00:29
- 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John sums up: the lending arm is going like gangbusters and the giving arm is ready for the Project for Awesome. — 00:02:37
- 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John announces the sixth annual Project for Awesome: today people all over YouTube are making videos about their favorite nonprofit organizations. — 00:00:00
- 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John says a 48-hour livestream on the Vlogbrothers channel will comment on, share and like P4A videos, making the internet about charity for a couple of days. — 00:00:23
- 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John says that for this year's (2012) Project for Awesome he is supporting Save the Children. — 00:02:20
- 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John says that, with no overhead, 100% of donations through the Foundation to Decrease World Suck go to P4A charities, which viewers partly choose. — 00:02:49
- 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — announcement: Hank says P4A 2012 drew a huge number of charity videos and that Indiegogo told them the campaign broke a number of the site's records. — video description
- 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — Hank says the staff offered to donate their time shipping out items for the Project for Awesome. — 00:01:45
- 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — announcement: Hank reports more than 700,000 P4A comments, each costing John a penny, more than 15,000 individual donors and thousands of P4A videos. — 00:02:32
- 2012-12-28 · Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! — Hank says they think it might be nice to have more winners and that the money would do more good spread across more charities. (hedged) — 00:02:19
- 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John: The P4A charities have not been announced because the total is not yet known; John expects to know in a couple more weeks, after working out PayPal and shipping costs. (hedged) — 00:01:05
- 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — announcement: Hank says the Project for Awesome has been a huge success every year, and this year (2013) raised over $400,000. — 00:00:58
- 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — announcement: Hank: The P4A money goes to the Office of Letters and Light, Not Forgotten, the Wildlife Waystation, the Alzheimer's Society, the Harry Potter Alliance, Save the Children, BGSU Dance Marathon, Uncultured Project, a charity heard as 'Taycho', and Love146 Dayton Task Force. — 00:01:27
- 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says last year's (2012) P4A raised more than $400,000 for organizations fighting illiteracy, domestic violence and global poverty, among other things. — 00:00:39
- 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — Hank says last year (2012) P4A raised $400,000, and this year (2013) an anonymous donor matches donations up to $125,000. — 00:01:41