SUBMIT A VIDEO
Thank you for making a Project for Awesome video and nominating a charity for a P4A grant!
Video submissions will be accepted until 11:59am EST (UTC/GMT−05:00) on Saturday, February 8th. You will see a confirmation message if your video was submitted successfully to be reviewed by the P4A team.
Please note that our team is manually reviewing all videos to make sure they meet our guidelines, so your video will not show up on the website immediately after submission.
Before you submit, please ensure your video meets the following guidelines:
- Your video must be made specifically for this year’s P4A. So, you must mention Project for Awesome 2025 in the video itself (not just the thumbnail), and it should have been created recently. You don’t need to spend too much time explaining what the Project for Awesome is; just mentioning it briefly, directing people to the website, and including an explanation and/or link in the description is plenty.
- Talk about the organization and explain what it does. You should put reasonable effort into making sure any information you include in your video is accurate, from anecdotal examples to statistics. There’s a lot of misinformation on the internet, so we want to make sure that P4A videos are providing thoughtful, accurate context about the work that organizations are doing in the world.
- Try not to make your video too long. People are going to be watching a ton of videos during P4A, and no one wants to sit through a rambly, unedited vlog for ten minutes. Keep your video short and to the point so that people will watch the whole thing and learn all about your cause. A good length to aim for is 2-4 minutes, unless you have such compelling content that it just needs to be longer.
- Make sure your video looks and sounds clear. 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.
- Please include a content warning at the beginning of your video if you’re discussing sensitive topics including, but not limited to, violence, self-harm, eating disorders, or death. While there are charities doing great work in very difficult spaces, our goal is to help our community members emotionally prepare and make the choice to watch a video rather than being surprised by potentially traumatic content.
- We highly encourage videos to be personal and engaging-the P4A celebrates community creativity and advocacy. A video submission may be rejected if it is apparent that a large portion of the video was created by AI, plagiarized, or otherwise not original work by the submitter.
All approved videos will be live on the P4A website by 12:00pm EST on Tuesday, February 11th, which is the start of the voting period. Voting will be open until 11:59am EST on Wednesday, February 19th. Once your video is on the P4A website, we recommend copying the video link so you can share it directly with your friends, family, and/or community and encourage them to vote!
If you have any issues with the submission process, please email us at [email protected] and include "Video Submission" in your subject line.
