As a creator who sees a lot of potential with the new built-in Twitch Charity fundraising feature, I think it would be worthwhile to consider additional donation methods. Many Twitch users already utilize Bits to support their favorite creators, and while Twitch takes a cut when purchasing Bits, 100% of Bits cheered in a creator's chat goes straight to the creator themselves.

What if there was a way for creators to route all revenue from Bits to support a specific charity during a built-in fundraiser? There's evidence of Bits serving as a fantastic resource for charities in the past on Twitch. In 2017 and 2018, when Twitch users cheered Bits while using the hashtag #charity in chat, Twitch donated $2 to Direct Relief for every time either 100 Bits (in 2018) or 1,000 Bits (in 2017) were cheered. Not only were streamers receiving the same support from Bits, but Twitch made massive donations to Direct Relief when all was said and done. If Twitch users already have Bits in their inventory, or if it is one of their most prominent ways of supporting their favorite creators, then who says that it's impossible to integrate Bits within Twitch Charity?

While I understand that community donations go through the PayPal Giving Fund and are granted to the charity that a creator is fundraising for, it would still be really cool and resourceful for Twitch users to have more methods when it comes to donating. Many third-party charity services have accepted multiple payment methods such as a Credit/Debit Card, PayPal, and even Amazon Pay, so I implore Twitch to consider the possibility of implementing Bits in the future within their built-in Twitch Charity fundraising feature!

This year my community has raised over $10k for The Center For Suicide Awareness. On the 1st of July I contacted Charity@twitch.tv to see if they could support us by giving a front page slot for our 'Twitch music festival'. I provided all the details necessary but didn't hear anything back until a month later. The front page slot was denied because we had a sponsor. Unfortunately the sponsor had already pulled out due to supply issues. We could have notified the Twitch Charity Support Team of this if they had contacted us more promptly.

My idea is to have a Twitch Charity Support Team that genuinely want to help creators and communities.

The Cure Starts Now / Nerf Cancer - US/Australia

The Cure Starts Now represents something truly different – a grassroots effort dedicated to, not just fighting one cancer, but the elimination of ALL cancers. We believe as the experts do; that in order to truly cure cancer you have to focus on: those cancers that are immune to treatment, those cancers that also affect children, and those cancers that are the biggest bullies with the highest death rate

We call this the Homerun Cure, but the idea isn’t new. As a matter of fact, this Homerun strategy dates back to the early 1900’s when bold advances in cancer research were made, leading to the invention of surgical efforts, radiation and finally chemotherapy. But the advancements stopped, leaving many patients behind without hope of survival. Resources were prioritized for those cancers that affected the most people rather than those we could learn the most from, and the focus shifted from cures to treatments.

Nerf Cancer is our Twitch Streaming Campaign.

Websites are: https://thecurestartsnow.org/ & https://nerfcancer.org/.

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https://www.pcosaa.org/ I United States

PCOS Awareness Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advocacy of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). The organization and its volunteers are dedicated to raising the awareness of this disorder worldwide, providing educational and support services to help people understand what the disorder is and how it can be treated. The Association also provides support for people diagnosed with PCOS to help them overcome the syndrome and decrease the impact of its associated health problems.
Public awareness of PCOS is necessary because over half of the 10,000,000 people that have it, are unaware of it.

Awareness helps the public understand that symptoms like irregular periods and pelvic pain are not something to be ignored and getting it checked is necessary. While there is no cure for PCOS, there are treatments that can help ease the stress and complications of specific symptoms. The more people that are informed of PCOS the better chances for early diagnosis.

With the goal of stopping cancer before it starts, the Prevent Cancer Foundation strives to reduce the cancer mortality rate by focusing individual behaviors, public policy, and research on prevention and early detection.

The Foundation addresses all preventable cancers across all populations, making prevention knowledge and early detection services more accessible for people in medically underserved communities and collaborating with partners to maximize the effectiveness and reach of the prevention and early detection programs and message

The Foundation's goal is to reduce cancer deaths by 40% by 2035. This service would be a great help for supporters to assist in reaching that goal!

https://www.bornfree.org.uk/

Born Free Foundation is an international animal welfare and conservation charity (number: 1070906), based in the UK (although we have teams in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa as well.

We work tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals, whether living in captivity or in the wild, are treated with compassion and respect and are able to live their lives according to their needs.

We promote Compassionate Conservation to enhance the survival of threatened species in the wild and protect natural habitats while respecting the needs and safeguarding the welfare of individual animals.

We work with a content creator on Twitch already and we are looking to increase our direct work with content creators. We know there is a strong love for animals amongst the Twitch community and we want to support anyone willing to give our charity some love!