Creations for Charity 2024 wrap up

The 16th annual Creations for Charity fundraiser is now behind us. For the first time, we donated Lego sets in six continents in one year. Although we are the longest continuously-running Lego charity giving Lego sets to underprivileged children since 2009, we have never donated to kids in Asia until now. This past year, we were fortunate to find not one, but two coordinators in Japan and The Philippines. In total, we donated Lego sets in a record number of 18 locations around this world this year, all thanks to our supporters and volunteer coordinators.

As you read about the Lego donations from each location on our blog, you’ll see that we have brought joy to kids in hospitals, shelters, rural daycares, villages, an orphanage, and many more diverse places. We sold nearly $5,000 of custom Lego creations from our store, raised over $6,000 from our live stream presented by Beyond the Brick, and received direct donations including a generous contribution of $9,000 from Brick Convention and $1,500 from Brickworld.

To sustain our steadily growing donations around the world, we will need to raise more money next year. Please help spread the word about our annual fundraiser always happening from October 15 to November 30. Ask your favorite Lego conventions if they want to partner with Creations for Charity. Influencers and communities can help by creating their own fundraiser benefiting Creations for Charity on Tiltify, an easy-to use fundraising platform that we use for our live streams (see last year’s example). It takes minutes to set up a personal or community fundraiser and all donations are handled by the platform.

I’m incredibly grateful to the generous people of the Lego community who allow me to organize Creations for Charity year after year. Together, we have given Lego to children around the world, many who never owned a Lego set before. I look forward to seeing you in our 2025 fundraiser in October!

-Nannan Zhang

 Creations for Charity Founder and President