The Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle (2010)
project history · status: completed · last event: milestone (2010-04-26) · last mentioned: 2014-01-14
In early 2010 Nerdfighters and the Harry Potter Alliance raised money for Haiti with the Helping Haiti Heal raffle: $86,000 by February, winners drawn in March, and four planes of aid, the last called the SS DFTBA, by the end of April; John later put the total at $123,000.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to buy Harry Potter Alliance raffle tickets for Haiti (2010) · Hank: write a song about the winner of his Helping Haiti Heal raffle prize (2010)
Told alongside: John asks viewers to buy a physical copy of Ellen Hardcastle to get a ten-word Hank video (2011) · John asks Nerdfighters to prove Helen Hunt has seen Hank's song about her (2008) · Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle: release (2011)
About: The Harry Potter Alliance, Haiti
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) | milestone | Hank reports that the Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter and Nerdfighter communities have raised $86,000, enough for two cargo planes of aid to Haiti. | Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! 00:02:15 |
| 2010-03-12 | outcome | Hank announces the Helping Haiti Heal raffle winners (prizes include a Hank song, signed CDs, a John Green book package and a short story) and says five planes of aid are on their way. | Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires 00:02:42 |
| 2010-04-26 (happened 2010-04-29) | milestone | John reports the fourth and final plane of medicine and water, funded by Nerdfighters with the HP Alliance, leaves for Haiti on Thursday (29 April 2010); Partners in Health calls it the SS DFTBA. | Nerdfighters, They Named a PLANE After Us 00:02:15 |
| 2010-07-05 | looked back | John recalls that Nerdfighteria and the Harry Potter Alliance raised $123,000 to help Haiti heal and sent the SS DFTBA to Haiti. | With Esther 00:02:04 |
| 2010-12-17 | looked back | John recalls that with the Harry Potter Alliance and Partners in Health, Nerdfighteria flew the SS DFTBA full of life-saving supplies to Haiti. | PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health 00:01:45 |
| 2011-07-27 | looked back | John lists other Nerdfighter feats: getting Hank's album on the Billboard charts, chartering airplanes of medical supplies to Haiti, and getting Helen Hunt to hear the Helen Hunt song. | 150,000 Autographs 00:01:15 |
| 2014-01-14 | looked back | John says the Harry Potter Alliance fights inequality and illiteracy and once worked with Nerdfighteria to send five airplanes of medical supplies to Haiti after the earthquake. | Giving Away Over $700,000 00:01:07 |
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
11 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — announcement: Hank says the Harry Potter Alliance, a non-profit built on the Harry Potter fan community, is raffling remarkable prizes for Haiti, with all the money going to Haiti. — 00:00:29
- 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — announcement: Hank: Prizes listed include Harry Potter books signed by J. K. Rowling with a thank-you note, a guitar signed and used by Tom Felton, a cast-signed Deathly Hallows, signed Gaiman, Pratchett and John Green books, and Where the Wild Things Are artwork. — 00:01:17
- 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — announcement: Hank says John and Maureen will each write a 1,000-word short story on any topic the raffle winner chooses. — 00:01:46
- 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — announcement: Hank: Inspired by John and Maureen, Hank raffles a song: he will phone the winner, write a song about them, record it and make a music video, and wants it on his next album. — 00:02:15
- 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — Hank says the Harry Potter Alliance, the Harry Potter community and the Nerdfighter community have together raised $86,000, enough to charter two cargo planes of aid to Haiti. — 00:02:15
- 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — ask: Hank says the goal is $105,000, enough for three cargo planes to be named Ron, Harry and Hermione, and asks viewers at least to check out the prize list. — 00:03:00
- 2010-03-12 · Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires — announcement: Hank lists the Nerdfighter-related prizes won: a song by Hank about the winner, signed copies of all his CDs, a John Green three-book package, and a 1,000-word short story by a New York Times best-selling author. — 00:02:42
- 2010-03-12 · Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires — announcement: Hank tells the winner of his song prize that he is going to write a song about her. — 00:02:42
- 2010-03-12 · Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires — Hank says five planes full of aid supplies are already on their way to help Haiti heal. — 00:03:11
- 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
- 2010-07-05 · With Esther — John: Esther is a big supporter of the Harry Potter Alliance, a charity Nerdfighteria often partners with; together they raised $123,000 to help Haiti and sent the SS DFTBA there. — 00:01:57