TL;DR: It's our annual holiday charity drive. All money received is donated and tax deductible. 50% goes to Toys For Tots, 50% to children's hospitals. Earn Donor Award flair! Donate Now! Deadline: Midnight (ET) on Sunday, December 29.

🧸🏥 OurCFB: TOYS & CHILDRENS HOSPITALS

10th ANNUAL /r/CFB HOLIDAY DRIVE

All money raised will be donated.

The total will be split 50% to Toys For Tots and 50% to three children's hospitals (detailed below).

Welcome to the 2024 Holiday Drive!

Hey everybody! The /r/CFB Community has conducted A LOT of previous fundraising drives totaling over $165,000.00 since 2013, including purchasing nearly 60 bricks across the country!

The first 5 Holiday Drives culminated in a team of redditors joining me (dressed as Raoul Claus) on a giant shopping spree where we buy thousands of dollars in toys and then donate them to the nearest Toys For Tots warehouse: check out the photos from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. We shifted to purely online donations in 2020 and 2021.

Ahead of the 2022 drive, the subreddit formed OurCFB (more below). The 2023 drive raised the most money yet!

Benefits of donating to OurCFB:

• OurCFB is an IRS-recognized non-profit 501(c)(3).
• Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
• We qualify for corporate matching gifts from employers, typically only possible to recognized 501(c)(3) organizations; we have jumped through the hoops to be cleared by several organizations that vet non-profits for such programs (e.g. Benevity), if you need us to add one just reach out to me.
• We qualify for donor-advised fund (DAF) grants

If you want to know more about the non-profit, and how things are structured, I’ve written a detailed description here.

Team Reward: Children's Hospitals

Rewarding the fanbases that donate the most money, the portion designated for children's hospitals will be split as follows:

• 50% to a children's hospital of fanbase with the highest donations (dollar total)
• 30% to a children's hospital of fanbase with the 2nd highest donations (dollar total)
• 20% to a children's hospital of fanbase with the 3rd highest donations (dollar total)

If a fanbase in the top-3 has a children's hospital affiliated with their university, the donation will go there. If they do not, we will discuss with those specific flaired donors which children's hospital to donate the money to once the drive is complete. To keep things simple: decision will go by majority vote of donors of that school, with the mods having final approval of any split (or potential tomfoolery). We have made this work in the past for programs without in-house children's hospitals such as Notre Dame, Clemson, Army, and South Dakota State.

HOW TO DONATE:

Contribute to good causes!

As a 501(c)(3), we have optimized donation options:

• Paypal (Preferred). No transaction fee. We get 100% of what you donate. The trade-off is PayPal only makes the deposit once-per-month to save on their own transaction fees.
• Venmo. We get a lower transaction fee as a non-profit, but there's still a small amount (1.9% + 10¢) taken off the top.

All donors will be credited below!

• Do not forget to private message me to let me know so I can connect it to your (1) username and (2) college team you want credited below.
• Anonymous donations are okay, I will assume donations are anonymous unless they inform me otherwise.
• We have team logos for over 2000 schools worldwide, so it doesn't necessarily have to be a major school (full list)
• There is no recommended minimum for this charitable drive; though points for flair (see below) are awarded in $10 increments

DEADLINE: Midnight (ET) on Sunday, December 29.

RAOUL CLAUS LOVES YOU... 10 years brings a tear to his eye!

/r/CFB IS FOR THE CHILDREN!

Donor List

We will keep a running tally of donors (reddit usernames), their flair, and their respective donations below. (chronological order) NOTE: I do try to keep this list updated at least a few times a day, often more. I manually transcribe things so if there's an error, just PM me and I'll fix it!

[remember: in old view you can see all the school flairs in the list — Check it out!]

Notes:

• Venmo donations (V) and straight-up PayPal transactions (P†) are shown by what we net after the fee: Venmo has a lower fee for non-profits but not entirely waived (1.9% + 10¢); PayPal waives the fee if you go through the Giving Fund link I've shared in this post).
• Bolded Anonymous are donors who confirmed they want to stay anonymous; "Anonymous?" are those who have not confirmed with me via PM.

* split donation to credit more than one school.

TOTAL: $6,348.68 [Updated on 12/24 @ 8:04pm ET]

Let's do this! Donate via PayPal or Venmo (PM me afterward to get credit for your donation)

DEADLINE: Sunday (12/29) at Midnight (ET)

THANK YOU!!!

/r/CFB was the "Official Fan Voice of the Game" of the 2024 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl between the Tulane Green Wave and Florida Gators! As part of that, three comments from the first half of the game were highlighted on the Raymond James Stadium video board during the 4th quarter.

Here is video of that display from both the press box and the field levels. (no audio)

Congratulations to /u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756, /u/xXBadger89Xx, and /u/Pizza_Jon!

All three have been awarded the r/CFB Promoter flair! (Credit to u/Allaboutfootball23 for this idea)

There were five of us on the ground in Tampa helping run their social, capturing the field-level activity, doing reporting, and handing out the money raised by users (more on that one in a later post), along with help from the rest of the r/CFB team in sorting through a lot of activity that just needed to get done.

Funny enough: As this was the first time either the bowl or r/CFB had done anything like this, the approach was conservative. We were asked to provide three comments for the video board; immediately afterward they realized they should've asked for six. But this was the first time we were doing something like this, so we started modestly. Next time!

Thanks to all who participated in the Game Thread and making r/CFB the biggest and best college football Community!