Hey everyone! Join our effort to raise awareness and funds for your favorite charities!

There are two ways you can get involved:

1) You can upload your cause video and share it with us - that way, everyone can see your video and learn more about your favorite cause and charity. Click on the "Submit a Video" button from the homepage, or click on "Submit" from an internal page, to share your video with us. If you want to share your video, please make sure your charity is recognized under the United States tax code 501c3, or your country's equivalent designation. You must share your video during the following timeframe for the video to be uploaded on our site: between 12:00PM EST on December 17, 2011 and 11:59AM EST on December 18, 2011. Note: please make sure that you upload only videos that you made and that all content in the videos belong to you.

2) You can help us decide where to donate the money we raise. We will be taking all the money we raise for charity during our Project 4 Awesome event and pooling it into one big pot. Then, you guys get to decide where the money goes. You vote for your favorite charity, then we'll tally all the votes and give the top 5 vote-winning charities 20% of the money we raise, each. So, you may be wondering a) how do I submit my favorite charity for consideration? and b) how do I vote for my favorite charity?

To submit your favorite charity for consideration, you must upload your cause video via the "Submit a Video" button from the homepage or "Submit" from an internal page during the listed timeframe (see #1 above for details). When you submit your video, you will also list your charity. Once you do that, your charity will be included in the list of options people can vote for. If you read this section carefully, you'll realize that the video/charity submission period is the same as the voting period, which means that the sooner you upload your video and charity, the sooner people can start voting on it, so upload your video and charity early!

To vote for your favorite charity, simply go to the homepage between 12:00PM EST on December 17, 2011 and 11:59AM EST on December 18, 2011. All you have to do is choose your favorite charity and click "Vote." There are no restrictions on how many times you can vote for your favorite charity, but in the interest of fairness and philanthropy, we ask you to vote for your favorite charity just once - we want those people who upload a video and charity late in the game to have an opportunity to win as well. If you see duplicates of your favorite charity in the voting area, please vote for only one. We will be combining all the votes for a particular charity once the voting period is over.

After 11:59AM EST on December 18, 2011, we will add up all the votes, combining the votes for duplicate charities on the list. The 5 charities with the most number of votes will each get 20% of the funds we all raised during Project 4 Awesome. We will announce all the winning charities on Friday, December 23, 2011 on www.projectforawesome.com and youtube.com/project4awesome. We will make out the checks to the winning charities and mail them out by the end of the year.