The Project for Awesome (or P4A) is an annual event where we raise awareness of charities that make the world a little bit of a better place and we raise money to redistribute to charities voted on by our community.
In 2024, we raised a grand total of $3,530,889.25. 50% of donations went to Save the Children and Partners in Health, and 50% of donations were split between 30 charities chosen by the Project for Awesome community. You can see a list of all the charities that have received P4A grants here.
Technically, you can participate in P4A throughout January and February every year, and we have some Key Dates that occur throughout the calendar year. Many people consider the “peak” Project for Awesome time to be our 48-hour livestream, which is scheduled annually on the third weekend of February.
The Foundation to Decrease World Suck (FTDWS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose main annual event is the Project for Awesome. The FTDWS exists to fundraise for the benefit of other nonprofits and only awards grants to organizations that are 501(c)(3) or foreign equivalent classified charities. The nine board members are John Green, Hank Green, Mike Green, Marie Ann Fernandez-Silva, Valerie Barr, Taylor Behnke, Benny Fine, Rosianna Halse Rojas, and Angela Lin.
You can nominate a charity for a P4A grant by creating a video about an organization you care about and submitting it to the P4A website during our annual submissions period. Then, during our annual voting period, anyone can watch your video and vote on organizations that they would like to receive P4A funds. Make sure to follow our Video Guidelines!
To receive grants from the FTDWS/P4A, an organization must be a 501(c)(3) non-profit classification or foreign equivalent classified charity. Any size charity is eligible and could possibly receive a portion of the money raised during P4A.
Nonprofits that pass their income directly to their owners, shareholders, investors, or other nonprofits are not eligible to receive Project for Awesome grants. The P4A’s goal is for our community to learn about organizations doing a lot of good and to collectively decide where to allocate funds.
Yes! We love it when charities get directly involved with the Project for Awesome, and we highly encourage you to make a video and share it with your community.
We have some Video Guidelines for you to follow! You don’t need a fancy camera or microphone to make a good video. Use whatever you have, even if it’s a webcam or a phone. If you’re uncomfortable showing your face, make a video showing only your hands or using only text. Here’s a video from Hank explaining how to best use the resources you have!
Once the voting period is open, anyone can go to the homepage of projectforawesome.com to see all videos. You can sort by charity category, pick from a dropdown of organization names, or search for a specific video. After you click on a video, look for a big red “VOTE” button either next to or below the video. You’ll have to check an “I’m not a robot” box, too. We count one vote per charitable organization per device.
Our voting rule for Project for Awesome 2025 is one vote per charitable organization per device. In other words, even if a charity has five videos, you will only be able to cast one vote for that charity in total.
The final community-recommended organizations will be subject to the approval of the Foundation to Decrease World Suck Board of Directors and Project for Awesome Advisory Board (made up of a group of community members).
You! Our biggest source of donations are from individual donors through fightworldsuck.org, the P4A matching fund, and the annual Tiltify campaign page in exchange for some pretty sweet perks.
Donations to the The Foundation to Decrease World Suck or the P4A matching fund are fully tax deductible under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
If you purchase a perk, your deductible donation is the purchase amount minus the fair market value of the perk. You will receive a confirmation email from Tiltify showing the amount contributed for the perk and its fair market value.
100% of the funds raised go to charity, less the cost of perk production and fulfillment, Tiltify fees, credit card/PayPal fees, and paying the part-time team who produce the Project for Awesome. Yearly financial summaries are available online on the Foundation to Decrease World Suck website.
Not all fundraising for the Project for Awesome occurs on Tiltify. The Foundation to Decrease World Suck receives monthly recurring donations throughout the year and matching donations from generous donors are received before the P4A livestream begins.
Please support them directly! Our biggest goal is to get people excited about contributing their time, talent, and money to nonprofits that make the world a little bit of a better place.
Of course! We want you to make thoughtful financial decisions. Whether or not you donate to P4A, you can still watch videos on projectforawesome.com, vote for charities that you care about, and spread the word about those organizations! And the P4A livestream is a fun, chaotic time for everyone.
Perks are available on our 2025 Tiltify campaign, which will be running from 12:00pm EST on February 11th until 11:59am EST on February 19th. You can go to projectforawesome.com/donate when it’s live to see a full list of perks. (During other times of the year, this link will redirect to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck website donation form.)
If a perk says “Included in the Digital Download Bundle” in the description on Tiltify, it is. The bundle also includes some exclusive digital perks (art, knitting patterns, etc.) that aren’t available separately.
Some limited quantity perks are released in batches so that more people have a chance to claim them at different times during the livestream. Perks with a (Part X) in the name may restock later, but in general, what's listed on Tiltify is what's available.
Unfortunately, P4A 2025 perks are only available from 12:00pm EST on February 11th until 11:59am EST on February 19th when the Tiltify campaign is open. We can’t offer any late perks due to the way our ordering and fulfillment systems are set up. You may be able to get some merch through a Mystery Perk in future years, but those are assembled at random and we can’t guarantee anything.
Our team will begin sending out all perks after the 2025 Tiltify campaign closes on February 19th and post a perk tracker on our website with more specific information! Typically, perks can take several months to prepare and send out. We’ll aim to fulfill all perks by September 2025.
Make sure to check the email account associated with your Tiltify perk purchase and mark the [email protected] account as a safe sender so your perk information doesn’t end up in a junk or spam folder!
If you purchase perks on Tiltify in one cart (order), all those items will ship together to save on packaging and shipping costs. If you purchase multiple carts (orders), those will be in multiple shipments.
For example, if you purchase a P4A Commemorative Coin and an Enamel Pin in one order and later you purchase one of Katherine’s Little Arts, your coin and pin will ship together (and won’t ship until both are ready) and the little art will ship on its own.
Don’t worry! As long as your perk has not been sent out yet, you can fill out this form to update your address.
Send us an email at [email protected] and we’ll try our best to help! We can typically figure out what happened to a perk from last year’s P4A, but we may not be able to track down any older perks.