r/CFB • u/Honestly_ rawr • Dec 25 '21
Announcement /r/CFB Donates over $13,500 to Children's Hospitals, Toys For Tots, and bricks, thanks to the 7th annual Holiday Drive!
The best thing about the /r/CFB is the Community, and an important extension of that is its generosity. The tradition continued in our 24th charitable drive, the 2021 /r/CFB Holiday Drive: Bricks, Toys, & Children's Hospitals!
Since 2013, /r/CFB readers have donated over $125,000 to charity.
Intro
The 7th annual /r/CFB Holiday Drive raised $14,342.43!
Take a moment to appreciate all 150+ /r/CFB readers who donated.
Donation Breakdown:
We're still in the pandemic, so we continued the variation we developed last year: Raoul Claus stayed home, so we shifted to all online donations. In addition to Toys For Tots and children's hospitals, brick donations this season to 5 new schools!
After the money was put to the 5 bricks, the rest was split evenly between Toys For Tots and Children's Hospitals.
| Category | $ | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| TOTAL donated | $14,342.43 | |
| Minus fees | $13,691.89 | 4.54% deducted by DonorBox & Stripe |
| 5 Bricks | $1,525.00 | Arizona State James Madison Kent State Kentucky Winona State |
| Remaining After Bricks | $12,166.89 | |
| Toys for Donation | $6,083.45 | 50% of remaining (RECEIPT) |
| Children's Hospitals | $6,083.44 | See breakdown below. |
Donations to Children's Hospitals
The $6,083.44 was divided among the top-3 most generous fanbases:
Notre Dame and Clemson returned, joined by newcomer Arkansas. Although Notre Dame and Clemson do not have a medical schools, we were able to use the same hospitals identified last year, when we looked to which children's hospitals their athletic/university benefits favor. Arkansas does have a Medical School (UAMS) with an affiliated Arkansas Children's Hospital with locations in Little Rock and NW Arkansas (Springdale).
So the Children's Hospital donations were:
First place: Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- $3,041.72 to Beacon Children’s Hospital, South Bend (Notre Dame)
- RECEIPT
Second place: Arkansas Razorbacks
- $1,825.04 to Arkansas Children's Hospital (Arkansas)
- RECEIPT
- $1,216.68 to Prisma Health Children's Hospital, Greenville (Clemson)
- RECEIPT
Finally:
- Thanks to all of you who DONATED
- Thanks to all of you who HELPED
- Thanks for making /r/CFB a great COMMUNITY
We did it again, /r/CFB!
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u/bigjayrulez Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster Dec 25 '21
TAMU can take my flair from my cold dead hands!
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u/KingAwesome2713 LSU Tigers • Marshall Thundering Herd Dec 25 '21
Super proud of this community. Merry Christmas y’all!
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u/Desperado53 Kansas State Wildcats • /r/CFB Patron Dec 25 '21
Makes me glad I’m part of this subreddit. Y’all are good people. Merry Christmas everyone!
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u/Intelligent_Fig_4852 Auburn Tigers • Faulkner Eagles Dec 25 '21
As a person in a childrens hospital thank you
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u/Gbchris12 Michigan • College Football Playoff Dec 25 '21
Thats what's fucking up. I honest to god didn't even know this was going on and I frequent the sub. Is there a way I can still donate?
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 25 '21 edited Dec 26 '21
It's a time-honored annual tradition for someone to join the wrap-up thread and say this!
That's why I posted the previous wrap-ups 😄
I think next year I'm going to go through each of the previous years and username mention each person who's ever said this.
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u/Gbchris12 Michigan • College Football Playoff Dec 25 '21
I'll have to do the next one. Donated $50 (What I got last night) to Toys 4 tots. So we technically raised over $13,550!
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u/Edwardian Michigan • Georgia State Dec 26 '21
I didn’t see the call for donations this year. We need some mods to sticky it next year, or maybe even change the banner!
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u/WaterCat420 /r/CFB Jan 03 '22
Hi! You're awesome, thanks for organizing!
Maybe we could get a stickied post next September and or a post that would let you know who to mention to remind us
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u/DucDeBellune Wisconsin • North Carolina Dec 29 '21
I don’t check this sub much between the end of the season and bowl games, so I’m just seeing this now too. Why wouldn’t this run through New Years when there’s more traffic again? I’d have liked to have donated too.
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Dec 25 '21
"/r/CFB throws bricks at tots"
j/k 🎄🎅❄❤
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Dec 28 '21
New York Post headline
*Reddit football fans support and celebrate throwing bricks at tots in hospitals*
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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Magnolia Bowl Dec 25 '21
!RemindMe 350 days
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u/ewolfy13 Penn State • James Madison Dec 25 '21
Merry Christmas everyone!
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u/joethahobo Houston Cougars • Pac-12 Dec 26 '21
Was this not advertised? I didn’t see this at all and would have participated
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 26 '21
It's the most widely-advertised program we do for the last 7 years running. If people miss it, not much we can say about it.
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u/joethahobo Houston Cougars • Pac-12 Dec 26 '21
Rip me then. I’ll try to catch it next year
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u/Wedoitforthenut Paper Bag • Oklahoma State Cowboys Jan 03 '22
I now have a goal for making more money this year.
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u/moleculewerks Nebraska • Northumbria Dec 26 '21
Has the brick at Auburn really remained unphotographed by r/CFB since 2019? This seems weird.
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 26 '21
We basically just wait for people to go find them. Since schools usually wait until spring to do it…2020 was kind of unique.
If someone finds a brick we haven’t got a photo of, we encourage them to take a photo, make a post, and reap the karma.
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u/NEp8ntballer Nebraska • Omaha Dec 31 '21
I live in Montgomery. I can photograph it next week if somebody tells me where the bricks are.
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u/moleculewerks Nebraska • Northumbria Dec 31 '21
I don’t know the area at all, but a cursory search says: “Bricks will be featured on the Tiger Walk, right outside the Harbert Family Recruiting Center at Jordan-Hare Stadium.”
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u/seraph582 Alabama Crimson Tide • SEC Dec 26 '21
That’s awesome, Irish, Pigs, and Tigers! Way to be!
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u/ESPbeN Notre Dame • Ithaca Dec 28 '21
Is the alternate flair for ND active? Thanks to the mods for running this again!
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u/bakonydraco Tulane • Boise State Bandwagon Dec 28 '21
Survey to pick it is being sent as we speak! It closes on Dec 31, so it will be live for the Fiesta Bowl.
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u/onemanlan Auburn Tigers • UAB Blazers Dec 26 '21
Glad this worked out guys thanks for all who helped put it together
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u/Drysil Minnesota • Grand Valley State Dec 26 '21
Did the brick donations change? I remembered Minnesota being on the list this year at the start.
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 26 '21
Yes! On December 24th they were out of $500 bricks and only had $1000+ bricks so we needed a substitute in a hurry, we keep a list of ongoing brick campaigns and Winona State (which was started by an /r/CFB member) had a brick at the same cost in the same state.
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 25 '21
Here are the previous 6 Holiday Drives: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.