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The Project for Awesome is Changing!

2024-01-19 · announcement · Hank · 3:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development · mode: Announcements · tags: calendar ritual, fundraising ask, civic or action cta

Hank announces how the Project for Awesome 2024 will change after a weird year, mostly to simplify things for the team: all money pooled and split half to Save the Children and Partners In Health and half to community-voted charities, no full 48-hour stream, and cheaper perk bundles; video submissions, voting, perks and the matching fund stay.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — P4A since 2007 and its many forms (the YouTube-paid Los Angeles studio, the 48-hour theater idea); this year things change

  • ★★ Hank says the brothers have done the Project for Awesome yearly since 2007, and it has taken many different forms. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank recalls one year when YouTube paid for the P4A to be done in a live studio in Los Angeles, with classic YouTubers such as Smosh. — 00:00:10 · Project for Awesome, YouTube, Los Angeles
  • ★ Hank jokes that other years he has proposed renting a theater for 48 hours with an audience that can't leave, and John told him to rein it in. (playful) — 00:00:17 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Hank says that because the last 12 months have been weird, the P4A will change some things this year (2024), mostly simplifying for the people who run it behind the scenes, the brothers included. — 00:00:25 · Project for Awesome

00:00:32 — What stays the same: videos, submission dates, voting, the weird livestream, perks, the matching fund

  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to make a video promoting their favorite charity and submit it at ProjectForAwesome.com between January 30 and February 13. — 00:00:39 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says viewers can vote at ProjectForAwesome.com for charities featured in videos, and a portion of the money raised will go to the charities voted on. — 00:00:48 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says there will again be a weird livestream, sometimes sincere talks with leaders of international aid organizations, sometimes silliness like spreading baked beans on their faces. (playful) — 00:00:58 · Project for Awesome

00:01:01 — What changes: pooled money split half and half, no full 48-hour stream, Tiltify shopping cart, physical perk bundle

00:02:58 — Gratitude to the team, the how-to-make-a-P4A-video video, grant sizes, sign-off

  • ★★ Hank calls the Project for Awesome one of the most special and wonderful things in his life, and very fun. — 00:03:05 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank is grateful to the people who work hard behind the scenes and says the changes take some lift off them and the brothers. — 00:03:14 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank points those interested in making a P4A video to a video he just uploaded on how to make a good one. — 00:03:28 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says P4A grants tend to be $20,000 to $30,000, a big deal for many organizations, and he is happy they get to do that work. — 00:03:36 · Project for Awesome

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