What starts with the letter C? Cookies. What else starts with the letter C? Charity.
Omaze, the site that rewards you for your charitable donations, is about to make one cookie monster's dream come true.
Donating to charity has always been rewarding by nature, but adding a little extra inventive never hurt to get the ball rolling, right?
Well get this: Donating a mere $10 or more in support of the Yellow Feather Fund through Omaze will automatically enter you to win an all-expenses paid trip to Sesame Street in NYC, where you'll get to hang and take photos with Cookie Monster, get an exclusive behind-the-scenes set tour, and obviously eat plenty of cookies.
Your donation will support the Sesame Workshop (the show's nonprofit organization behind the Yellow Feather Fund) in bringing research-based educational content to kids and families in need around the world.
This is literally what dreams are made of — just ask co-founders Ryan Cummins and Matt Pohlson. The two launched Omaze after their own dream of winning the opportunity to play basketball with their idol, Magic Johnson, was squashed during a charity auction. As a couple of broke college students, outbidding the winning offer of 15 grand just wasn't in the cards. The purpose of Omaze is to make donating fun and beneficial for everyone — even those on a budget.
Grand prizes are no longer limited to those who have the means to dish out tens of thousands of dollars at an auction. For a measly $10, you can enter to live out some truly surreal experiences. You can go full Pretty Woman and win a lunch and shopping date with Julia Roberts on Rodeo Drive, score all-access passes to Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, or even fly out to Hollywood to be drawn into an episode of Bojack Horseman.
The hype seems to be working, considering Omaze has raised over — wait for it — $130 million total for dozens of amazing causes since its launch in 2012. But you know what's cooler than a million dollars? A billion.
"We want to be the first for-profit company to break a billion dollars raised for charity in a year," Co-founder Matt Pohlson told Mashable. "No other group has done that before, and we're on track to do it."
Now that's a goal we can get behind. Especially when it also involves cookies.
As Omaze's site puts it: "Good things come to those who give." So hop on the bandwagon, because this time it's headed to Sesame Street and you won't want to miss it. Donate for a chance to win here.
Topics Social Good
