May 2025 Fundraising Events

Spring is in full swing, and so are powerful opportunities to make a real difference. This May, several leading nonprofits are hosting special fundraising events focused on urgent causes, like expanding access to mental health care, supporting childhood cancer research, and increasing awareness of lupus.

Whether you’ve fundraised before or are exploring ways to give back for the first time, these campaigns are a meaningful way to support life-changing work. Explore the featured nonprofits below, find a mission that moves you, and start making an impact today.

💙St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Event: St. Jude PLAY LIVE 2025

Sign up to create your own campaign and start fundraising for St. Jude kids anytime.

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Our mission is clear: Finding cures. Saving children. ®
• Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – so they can focus on helping their child live.
• Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped increase the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since we opened more than 50 years ago. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.

Connect with other fundraisers and access resources in our Discord.

💙 Lupus Foundation of America

Event: Game On! to End Lupus 2025

The Lupus Foundation of America’s Game On! to End Lupus™ unites streamers from around the world as they play video games and get creative while using their platforms to help end lupus. Held May 2-4, 2025 and all May long as part of Lupus Awareness Month, creators are welcome to stream as often as they would like during the event and throughout the month. However long you stream, you will be helping to raise money for lupus research, increase awareness of the disease, and rally public support for those who suffer from its brutal impact.

💙 Cure Cancer

Event: Superhero Streamers® 2025

"Not all superheroes wear capes!"

🦸 Join the Superhero Streamers® in 2025 and fundraise to support some 'real-life superheroes - the cancer researchers that Cure Cancer funds! You can fly solo as an individual fundraiser OR join a fundraising team 🔬

Need some help getting setup, or have a question? Join our Discord!

💙 Crisis Text Line

Event: Mental Health Awareness Month 2025

One conversation can be a turning point for someone in crisis—but too many people still face barriers to mental health support. At Crisis Text Line, we’re here 24/7 with free, confidential, judgment-free support—because each text can make a life-saving difference. But mental health care should go beyond crisis moments. It should be accessible every day, through emotional support, coping tools, and connection. Join us. Your donation helps bring support within reach and builds a world where mental health care is truly for everyone—one conversation at a time.

💙 To Write Love on Her Arms

Event: People Need Other People

At TWLOHA, it’s always been our belief that people need other people, and this May in honor of Mental Health Month, we are giving you a chance to rally your communities and come together to raise mission-critical funds for initiatives that offer hope and mental health support to thousands of people this year.

Together, we’ll prove that healing happens when we show up for each other. We all know the importance of mental health, and this fundraising campaign helps us show up with the life-saving support and resources that people need now more than ever.

Our goal is to raise $20,000 in order to cover 365 hours of therapy through our Treatment & Recovery Scholarship program, we well as help fund our Find Help Tool.

• Raise $100: Help us Build Resilience We created our Mental Health Toolkit as a hub to access practical tools for people to build resilience and to cope. Raising $100 helps us keep this resource running and will impact 275 people as we have over 50,000 people utilizing this tool annually.

• Raise $250: Empower Community Raising $250 sponsors a weekly peer support group creating a vital healing space for up to 60 people each week. It makes asking for help possible and even life saving.

• Raise $500: Connect People to Help We want to shorten the distance between needing help and getting it. Our FIND HELP Tool connects people to free or reduced-cost mental health resources in their area. Raising $500 allows 1,500 people access to this platform.

• Raise $1,000: Help us Erase Financial Barriers Our Treatment & Recovery Scholarship helps erase the financial barriers that prevent so many from accessing mental health care. Raising $1,000 will give 20 people the chance to sit with a licensed mental health professional and start their journey of healing.

*Your fundraising efforts and donations enable us to sustain these initiatives and ensure they remain accessible without financial barriers, helping those who need them most.

For updates, visit Discord.gg/TWLOHA

💙 Gamers Engaged

Event: Gauntlet 2025: Feast!

The Gauntlet: Feast is an online fundraising campaign and culminating in-person tournament for the benefit of Gamers Engaged. Learn more about the important work of Gamers Engaged below!

About our Beneficiary- Gamers Engaged: After 9 years as a successful employee engagement program at Card Kingdom, Gamers Engaged became an independent nonprofit organization, 501c3, in 2021. We are dedicated to creating meaningful change in our society by connecting individuals and games industry companies with nonprofits that can utilize their time, treasure, and talent!

In 2024, with funds secured via The Gauntlet, we launched our low-barrier grant program for nonprofits. Our grant program supports organizations that are making a big difference in areas such as basic needs, health/mental health, education, and community/neighborhood development in our Pacific Northwest backyard and across the United States.