Let's Do a Good

2025-02-14 · announcement · Hank · 2:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development · mode: Advocacy & fundraising · tags: calendar ritual, fundraising ask, civic or action cta, timely hook, self promotion

Launching the 2025 Project for Awesome, Hank says half the money raised goes to Save the Children and Partners In Health, which need support more than in a long while now that USAID funding is interrupted; he lists the donation perks and asks viewers to vote and watch the livestream.

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 2025 begins; half to Save the Children and Partners In Health, which need support after USAID funding was interrupted

• ★★★ Hank announces that the 2025 Project for Awesome begins now. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome
• ★★★ Hank says half of the money raised during the Project for Awesome will support the work of Save the Children and Partners In Health. — 00:00:00 · Project for Awesome, Save the Children, Partners In Health
• ★★ Hank says these organizations need support more now than they have in quite a while. — 00:00:00 · Save the Children, Partners In Health
• ★★ Hank says both organizations sometimes receive USAID funding and both serve populations that USAID also serves. — 00:00:16 · Save the Children, Partners In Health
• ★★ Hank says USAID's funding has been interrupted. — 00:00:16
• ★★ Hank says USAID's funding may stay interrupted for a long time. (hedged) — 00:00:16
• ★★★ Hank says Save the Children and Partners In Health both now have more work to do and less money to do it with. — 00:00:29 · Save the Children, Partners In Health
• ★★ Hank says that for those able to give there are many good reasons to give now, since everything these organizations do is vitally important. — 00:00:29 · Save the Children, Partners In Health
• ★★ Hank lists the organizations' work: treating children for malnutrition, HIV treatment, supporting kids in war zones, reducing maternal and infant mortality, responding to disease outbreaks. — 00:00:44 · maternal death, child mortality
• ★★ Hank says he is proud that the community supports these people and their work. — 00:00:44 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:58 — Donation perks: guest-commissioned frogs, digital download bundle, collage prints, comedy compilation, merch; voting

• ★★★ Hank tells viewers that giving to the Project for Awesome supports the charities' work and also gets them perks. — 00:00:58 · Project for Awesome
• ★★ Hank says special guests commissioned their own frogs from frog artist Paige Tompkins this year (2025), available signed or digitally in the digital download bundle. — 00:00:58 · Project for Awesome
• ★★ Hank says the digital download bundle also has exclusive podcasts, videos and other art, including his old magazine collages. — 00:00:58 · Project for Awesome
• ★★ Hank says prints of his collages are available, each with a one-in-50 chance of getting an original, though buyers cannot pick which one, to keep fulfillment simple. (playful) — 00:00:58 · Project for Awesome
• ★★ Hank says he edited an hour-long compilation of crowd work, improv and material cut from his comedy special, recorded in clubs around the country, for the digital download bundle. — 00:01:27 · Project for Awesome
• ★★ Hank lists more perks: a merch bundle, a flat merch bundle, Nerdfighter art, a pin and a coin, all at projectforawesome.com/donate. — 00:01:27 · Project for Awesome
• ★★ Hank invites viewers to vote on where half of the Project for Awesome money will go, finding charity videos and ways to vote at projectforawesome.com. — 00:01:27 · Project for Awesome

00:01:56 — Invitation to watch the livestream; sign-off

• ★★★ Hank asks viewers to watch the livestream at projectforawesome.com/live, where the brothers hang out with guests and are ridiculous, because doing some good right now will be nice. — 00:01:56 · Project for Awesome
• ★ Hank says many things are planned and a guest schedule is at projectforawesome.com, but no one knows where the best moments will happen. — 00:01:56 · Project for Awesome

Threads in this video

• launched · P4A 2025 edition — Hank announces that the 2025 Project for Awesome begins now. (00:00:00)
• reminder · John asks viewers to donate to P4A 2025 at projectforawesome.com/donate for perks (2025) — Hank tells viewers that giving to the Project for Awesome supports the charities' work and also gets them perks. (00:00:58)
• predicted · Hank: USAID funding may stay interrupted for a long time (2025) — Hank says USAID's funding may stay interrupted for a long time. (00:00:16)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Hank: USAID funding may stay interrupted for a long time (2025) — came true
• P4A 2025 edition — completed; last: looked back, 2026-02-06

Mentioned

Central: Partners In Health · Project for Awesome · Save the Children

Also: child mortality · Hank Green's stand-up comedy special on Dropout · HIV/AIDS · malnutrition · maternal death · United States Agency for International Development

Only in the description or credits: Paige Tompkins

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