P4A 2021 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2021-02-16) · last mentioned: 2022-02-15
Parts: Hank asks viewers to donate to P4A 2021 at Tiltify for perks or at fightworldsuck.org (2021) · John asks donors of $500 or more to join the P4A 2021 matching fund by Google form or email (2021) · John asks viewers to make P4A 2021 videos for charities they care about, submitted 48 hours before it starts (2021) · John: P4A perk shipping will be better in 2021 than after the last P4A (2021) · Hank asks viewers to join the P4A 2021 livestream and tell people about it (2021) · Hank asks viewers to vote at projectforawesome.com during the P4A 2021 livestream for second-half charities (2021) · Hank: host a $100 trivia night as a P4A 2021 perk (2021) · John: keep a mustache as a P4A 2021 promise (2021) · Hank: P4A 2021 money will go to many charities and have a lot of real-world impact (2021)
Other editions: P4A 2008 edition · P4A 2009 edition · P4A 2010 edition · P4A 2011 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 2022 edition · P4A 2023 edition · P4A 2024 edition · P4A 2025 edition · P4A 2026 edition
Told alongside: John asks donors of $500 or more to join the P4A 2022 matching fund via Google form (2022) · John (with Sarah): make another Like Letters podcast on their emails as a P4A 2022 perk (2022)
About: Project for Awesome
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-19 | announced | The 2021 Project for Awesome is coming soon, running from noon on February 12th to noon on February 14th. | let's go on a parts adventure 00:00:00 |
| 2021-01-19 | rule change | The P4A moves from the holiday season to February. | let's go on a parts adventure 00:00:58 |
| 2021-02-05 | rule change | Hank details P4A 2021 changes: fundraising and perks move to Tiltify, and videos must be submitted early, by noon Eastern on February 10, so volunteers can review them. | The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! 00:00:29 |
| 2021-02-12 | launched | 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. | Doing Better 00:02:52 |
| 2021-02-16 | outcome | The 2021 P4A livestream has just ended, having raised over $2 million for charity so far: by almost any metric the most successful P4A in its 15-year history. | A Lovely Winter Walk 00:00:16 |
| 2021-02-19 | looked back | Hank thanks everyone who made things, volunteered, appeared on the livestream, the mods, the core team, designers, organizers and schedulers: it takes a ton of work. | Bean Meme Review 00:12:52 |
| 2022-02-08 (happened 2021) | looked back | Every year Nerdfighters join the brothers in a P4A matching fund, a big reason the Project for Awesome donated over $2.3 million to charity last year (2021). | How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes) 00:01:56 |
| 2022-02-15 (happened 2021) | looked back | One of last year's (2021) Project for Awesome perks was Like Letters, a podcast in which Sarah and John analysed some of these emails. | My Most Valuable Books 00:02:55 |
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: This year (2021) P4A videos must be uploaded and submitted at projectforawesome.com at least 48 hours before it starts, so the community has more time to watch and share. — 00:02:26
- 2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: Working with the donation platform Tiltify, the P4A can finally accept PayPal donations, after 14 years. — 00:02:55
- 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: The Project for Awesome, a 48-hour charity livestream with guests and goofs held every year since 2007, starts one week from today on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:00:00