Charity streams and fundraisers in which viewers are induced to Subscribe to a channel, or send a lump-sum payment directly to a Broadcaster's PayPal, unnecessarily expose streamers to liability and viewers to fraud. This practice is for the most part largely unregulated on Twitch. If Twitch is not going to moderate this practice, then I implore them to create alternative, legitimate tools for Broadcasters who wish to raise money for charity.

My suggestion is to introduce a "Charity" button similar to the "Subscribe" button, with all money going directly to a designated registered charity. This could be a page hosted on Twitch similar to the Subscription page, or a direct link to an official DonorDrive page for the registered charity. Ideally, it would be possible for this process to hook into the Twitch API in some way, so that streaming tools could be written that track viewer contributions in the same way that they already do for Subscriptions.

There are many reasons why such a tool would be of benefit to Twitch, its community and charities. I feel that it would also quash potential fraud and further legitimize Twitch as a platform for charitable causes in gaming.

I posted this suggestion on the r/Twitch and you can read some of the existing feedback here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/4e12i4

https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/

SpecialEffect transform the lives of people with physical challenges right across the world through the innovative use of technology. At the core of this mission is their work to optimise inclusion, enjoyment and quality of life by helping people control video games to the best of their abilities for as long as they need them.

They don’t charge anything at all for their help. That’s why donations, large or small, really do count. Without charitable support, they wouldn’t be able to help people with physical disabilities to enjoy a better quality of life through their assessments, online resources and collaboration with key developers.

UK Reg. Charity No: 1121004

Help for Heroes is a charity that provides lifelong recovery support to British Armed Forces service personnel who have been wounded or injured in the line of duty and their families.

Right now, they need your support more than ever. Due to the pandemic, our income has fallen and we’ve seen a 50 per cent increase in the number of veterans struggling with their mental health. Every penny you raise makes a real difference to veterans and those still serving, helping them to recover and get on with their lives.

UK Reg Charity Number: 06363256

Website: https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Hero Up Gaming Website: https://heroup.helpforheroes.org.uk/

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly in treatment and recovery.

Our goal is to move people from isolation into community—from hopelessness to hope.

We create conversations and share stories to confront the lie that says we can’t talk about mental health. TWLOHA also acts as a bridge, shortening the distance that exists between people needing help and receiving it. Our FIND HELP Tool makes it possible to locate free or reduced-cost mental health services in every zip code in the US. We also provide scholarships to remove the financial barriers that keep so many people from accessing care.

TWLOHA’s Impact:

Since 2006, TWLOHA has invested $3 million into treatment and recovery. Last year, TWLOHA sponsored 3,400 counseling sessions and 109 weeks of substance use disorder care.

Each month, TWLOHA reaches more than 12.5 million people online.
Every year, TWLOHA shares over 120 stories of mental health and healing on the blog, podcast, and through LIVE events.

We’ve reached 44,000 high school students with our Between the Bells program, which creates conversations and connects students to resources through a week-long campaign on campus.

We launched The Hopeful app, which is free to use and features daily encouragement, journaling, and mood tracking with 15,000 people finding support in their recovery journey.

TWLOHA has supported 40,000 searches for mental health resources through our FIND HELP Tool.

We reach all 50 states and 70 different countries.

To learn more visit TWLOHA.com!

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[Critical Role Foundation]

Since Critical Role began sharing stories online in 2015, one of our guiding principles has been to use our platform to create good — both in our local communities and for the world at large. Critical Role Foundation is our way of continuing this mission in a meaningful way.

Critical Role Foundation selects and partners with outstanding non-profit organizations that carry the same values as we do and we work closely alongside each of our partners to ensure that every dollar raised is going toward programs and projects that are changing the world for the better. Critical Role Foundation is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and donations are 100% tax deductible in the United States.

https://critrole.com/foundation/

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For 75 years, Dana-Farber has led the world by making life-changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care, providing the most advanced treatments available. Dana-Farber is a center of excellence and is internationally renowned for its equal commitment to cutting edge research and provision of excellent patient care. The deep expertise in these two areas uniquely positions Dana-Farber to develop, test, and gain FDA approval for new cancer therapies in its laboratories and clinical settings.

The Jimmy Fund supports Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, raising funds for adult and pediatric cancer care and research to improve the chances of survival for cancer patients around the world. Through Jimmy Fund Let’s Game, the community can help propel Dana-Farber’s efforts. Every donation, no matter the size, advances our lifesaving mission.

Websites:

https://www.dana-farber.org/

https://www.jimmyfund.org/

https://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/site/SPageServer/?pagename=jimmyfund_letsgame_cancer

Guide Dogs exists to provide life-changing services to the near two million people in the UK living with sight loss. Best known for our world-famous guide dogs, our work now encompasses so much more to help people with sight loss to live actively, independent and on their own terms.

From our life-changing guide and buddy dog services to our mobility training, education support, early years, sighted guides and more. For children and adults. Friends and family. Our expert staff, volunteers and dogs are here to help.

We couldn’t train our amazing dogs and carry out these life-changing services without our incredible supporters.

https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/

Guide Dogs is a working name of The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. A company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (291646) and a charity registered in England and Wales (209617), Scotland (SC038979) and Isle of Man (1334).

PancONE Network is the international research division of Pancreatic Cancer Canada Foundation, which aims to disrupt the traditional approach to discovery in pancreatic cancer by bringing together multiple sectors, innovations, and novel methods to drive real change. We’ve waited long enough for the kind of meaningful progress that matters in the lives of those directly affected by this horrendous cancer.

Survival must increase more rapidly than 1-2% every decade. If we could change the odds for ****** cancer in our lifetime, what is stopping us from doing the same for pancreatic cancer?

A huge portion of their support comes from content creators on Twitch, so it would be awesome to have them as a nonprofit featured on Twitch Charity!

Website: https://pancone.org/

Nonprofit ID: 84-5185853

Families are at the heart of MDA's mission. We wake up every morning to create more hope and answers for families living with muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular diseases that take away physical strength and mobility. We fund groundbreaking research for promising treatments and provide families with the highest quality care from the best doctors in the country.

Here are the ways we’re helping achieve these goals so families can live longer and grow stronger:
Innovations in Science

At MDA, we take a big-picture perspective across the full spectrum of neuromuscular diseases to uncover breakthroughs that accelerate treatments and cures. The power in our research approach is that we can often apply learnings from one disease to achieve progress in others to bring urgently needed answers to our families.

Here are some of our current highlights:

Research: MDA is the largest source of funding for neuromuscular disease research outside the federal government and has committed more than $1 billion in funding since its inception.
Treatments: Research we have supported is directly linked to approved, life-changing therapies across multiple neuromuscular diseases.
Technology: Our MOVR platform is the first and only data hub that uniquely aggregates healthcare, genetic, and patient-reported data, transforming health outcomes and drug development in neuromuscular disease.

Innovations in Care

We know that early diagnosis, highly specialized care and access to promising clinical trials help ensure the best possible outcomes for individuals and families facing muscular dystrophy, ALS and related life-threatening diseases. That’s why MDA is here to provide care for kids and adults from day one. Our MDA Care Centers offer families best-in-class, comprehensive care from a wide variety of health care specialists at one location on the same day, while our trained information specialists and educational resources are available to offer guidance and support through every step of the journey.

Here are some of our current highlights:

MDA Care Centers: We support the largest network of care centers providing best-in-class comprehensive clinical care at top health care institutions.
MDA Resource Center: Our national Resource Center is staffed by a dedicated team of knowledgeable specialists offering one-on-one support at no cost.
MDA Summer Camp: Every year thousands of children and young adults learn vital life skills and independence at MDA Summer Camp and other recreational programs at no cost to families.

Professional Education

MDA offers a series of educational programs developed for clinicians and specialists who manage and treat individuals with neuromuscular disease. The Medical Education team has partnered with the country’s top thought leaders and experts to create a series of educational programs including CME certified grand round webinars, peer-to-peer educational slide decks and case studies.

Here are some of our current highlights:

MDA Grand Rounds Webinars: Featuring expert thought leaders across neuromuscular diseases, the MDA Grand Rounds Webinars include best practices and practical clinical consideration in the management and care of individuals with neuromuscular disease.
Considerations in Care Case Studies: These case studies explore multidisciplinary clinical decision making through the lens of in-depth patient experiences living with various neuromuscular diseases.

Community Education

MDA offers programs and resources to help educate our community about the fundamentals of neuromuscular disease.

Here are some of our current highlights:

MDA Engage Community Education Seminars: These day-long educational seminars empower individuals and families with knowledge and resources around neuromuscular disease in general.
MDA Engage Disease Specific Symposia: These one-day educational events empower individuals and families with knowledge and resources specific to a single diagnosis.

Advocacy

MDA is dedicated to advocating for national policies and programs that support families with neuromuscular diseases by accelerating the development of therapies and cures, facilitating early diagnosis and treatment from day one, ensuring access to critical support, and promoting policies that safeguard independence for people living with disabilities. In addition to staff, MDA grassroots advocates make sure lawmakers in Washington, DC hear their voices by acting online, meeting with lawmakers virtually, engaging with social media, and sharing their stories with key decisionmakers. Together with MDA’s network of advocates, families, volunteers, and partners, we ensure that the collective voice of our community is heard on Capitol Hill.

https://shadowcats.net/

In 1997 there were very few resources available for stray cats in the central Texas area and nationwide. Rampant breeding allowed cats to give birth to countless litters of kittens to continue the cycle of suffering. Doomed to an indifferent life on the streets, their lives were usually brief; or, if they ended up in shelters, they were usually euthanized soon after arrival.

Identifying a great need, Shadow Cats became a reality- a resource for cats in the shadows.

Through diligence, a small cadre of veterinarians and trappers began to work together to learn to humanely trap, sterilize, vaccinate and return feral cats to their original location and to watch over and manage them through regular feedings and providing outdoor sheltering if possible. (Trap, Neuter and Return or TNR). As TNR programs grew across the country, it became- and remains- the largest rabies vaccination program available for community cats. Shadow Cats has sterilized over 12,000 cats which represents countless kittens over the years not born into a world unwilling and unable to care for them. Our work would have been much easier if all was black and white, but with many of the cats we trapped, there were gray areas- cats that could not be "returned" to their colonies for a variety of reasons- injured, ill or social cats and kittens that had a chance at adoption. A small 10x10 structure was built off of a bedroom in the founders backyard and became the holding or fostering area for countless cats as we worked to bring them back to health, provide veterinary and supportive care and get them adopted into safe homes.

Our TNR program had evolved into a sheltering and adoption program and The Sanctuary was born.

Through years of hard work and perseverance, we have achieved many milestones for cats over the last 25 years. In 2010, Shadow Cats worked with the city of Round Rock, TX to pass ordinances to bring legal TNR to our city, in addition to petitioning other cities in the area including Leander, Lampasas and Taylor, TX. We were instrumental in the dismantling of the gas chamber in Taylor- responsible for the hard deaths of cats and dogs. We have provided mentorship and paved the way for many other rescue organizations since our early years. In 2013, we developed the One Life Fund, which allows us to help other feline organizations or good Samarians to address the needs needs of community cats in their areas with small grants to assist with TNR, injured cats, food and veterinary care. This has helped Shadow Cats extend our reach from our own community to far beyond what we can physically do ourselves and help cats near and far.

Shadow Cats continues to provide TNR resources and is now also home to 80 special needs cats at our beautiful Sanctuary located on two beautiful treed acres in central Round Rock. Here, we provide hospice and long term care to special needs cats.

Shadow Cats has grown from identifying a need to providing resources that were once unimaginable. We have seen what was once illegal become the norm- the standard for addressing community cat issues. Most in a community want the same thing- fewer stray cats. Shadow Cats chooses to provide services, options and alternatives to humanely address their needs while at the same time reduce their numbers.