One person has already taken me up on this offer, and the rest have yet to redeem the offer. I found my own way to give my audience reasons to donate: providing a menu of games that I would play for half an hour if they donated $15 or more. And at the end of the day, they'd raised a massive $317,730. At $285,000 Stephen shaved his beard down to just his moustache. Hurley and Relay co-founder Stephen Hackett used major rewards and milestones to encourage donations. Jude (opens in new tab), with a cast of special guests calling in. One of the most amazing Twitch-based fundraising stories I know comes from my friend Myke Hurley, whose podcast network Relay.fm (opens in new tab) raises huge amounts annually for St. Tiltify is also cool because it lets you automatically set up mini-goals for your path to your ultimate fund-raising amount, so you can give your audience rewards. Tiltify's top 30 fundraisers (as in the people raising funds) combined to raise over $16 million in 2020.

There's a lot of mechanics involved with raising money, when it comes to accepting, processing and directing payments, and Tiltify (opens in new tab) is the biggest name in the game when it comes to handling donations from streams. Consider Tiltify, but understand the asterisks While I knew Heart of Dinner and Red Canary Song were great organizations, I didn't memorize enough about the actions each charity does, and found myself repeating the same few lines over and over again. But not everyone feels comfortable donating to an organization connected to sex work, so I also added Heart of Dinner (opens in new tab), which fights food insecurity among Asian Americans in NYC (where I live).įor the next time I stream, though, I'm going to spend more time reading up on the charities I'm working for. My first choice was Red Canary Song (opens in new tab), an organization of Asian and migrant sex workers that is pushing for full decriminalization and labor rights. And while most will just pick one charity, I chose two.

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