Creations for Charity 2024 has Begun!

If you’ve been involved in the LEGO community for a few years, then there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Creations for Charity. This annual drive runs from 15 October to 30 November every year with a goal of raising funds to give LEGO sets to underprivileged kids. The charity was started in 2009 by Nannan Zhang and has been growing ever since.

The blog post kicking off the drive this year can be found here. There are a bunch of cool builds and instructions listed already so check them out. If you don’t want to buy anything, you can just donate. Also look for the Beyond the Brick crew to host another 24 hour live stream in November.

Thanks for supporting this great charity and happy building!

Giving Campaign - Brick Chalk Guy - 28 November through 20 September 2024

We donated $460 worth of LEGO sets to the Chalkguy LEGO Service Project at the end of 2022. We heard from Ben Glenn and he asked if we’d be willing to run another campaign to support his organization. Our answer… of course!

From 28 November 2023 to 30 June 2024, 15% of the profits from the Bricks for Bricks Bricklink Store will support the Chalkguy LEGO Service Project. You can learn more about this project at their site here.

We look forward to sending them some sets in 2024. Thank you for your support!

Happy building!

Some of our 2022 donations to the Brick Chalk Guy drive.

$182 to Creations for Charity! Thank You!

We collected 15% of our profits from 1 July to 27 November 2023 which resulted in $182 for Creations for Charity. Overall, Creations for Charity raised $33,265 and donated sets to kids in 17 countries around the world. It was just shy of their 2021 record of $35,000, but still very impressive. You can see some of the results as the Beyond the Brick team helped to give away some of the sets purchased from the funds raised.

Thank you to everyone who supported Bricks for Bricks and allowed our continued giving!

Happy building!

New Giving Campaign - Creations for Charity - 1 July to 27 November 2023

Okay, this isn’t a new place, but the Creations for Charity drive needs our help. They had steadily increasing amounts raised in past years and then last year they saw a drop in donations. I’m not sure if 2021 was a fluke or what, but let’s make sure this year, they raise more than last year. So 15% of the profits from the Bricks for Bricks Bricklink store will go to Creations for Charity. We’ve supported them before and it’s time to do it again.

In case you aren’t familiar, Creations for Charity was formed in 2009 by AFOL Nannan Zhang. It started the first year with a few donations locally and has since skyrocketed to what it is today. The Beyond the Brick team is involved with their annual 24-hour live stream to raise funds.

So thank you for your support and we look forward to being able to help them give lots of LEGO sets to kids around the world.

Happy building!