Matt L. Jouuett

Toy to the World (TTTW) is a charity art event involving a custom vinyl toy design competition that pulls together local, interstate and international artists creating one of a kind works that are auctioned to raise funds that go towards supporting people living with HIV, health care & promotions, fundraising events as well as counselling and support services through the Victorian AIDS Council (VAC).

We've run the event 3 times now, each time we've covered the initial overheads with a round of Pozible Crowdfunding, and we're looking to come back again in 2017 with your help! Don't forget, Pozible is 'All-Or-Nothing', so we need to hit that 100% mark or it's all for naught, so make sure you get your friends, your family, your grandma, and even all those people you just know from Facebook but haven't actually met, to check it out and log a pledge.

The last event (2014-2015) saw significant growth in participation of artists and in the online auction (thanks to a partnership with NZ based online auction system BuddyBid) which lead to raising even higher level of funds to support the VAC's work, we're hoping that we can keep this trend going so be sure to follow the project for updates and share it around.

Funds from Pozible will help TTTW to cover:

• Shipping of toys from China to Melbourne
• Promotion to attract artist entries and attendence to exhibition
• Venue hire for the Exhibition
• Plinths, bar, DJ and other opening night event expenses
• other costs of running the project

If we surpass the goal we set we'll be in an even better position to support the VAC in their work with people living with HIV in Australia.

Every year that the project has run it has grown considerably, which is awesome, but also brings challenges with it.

This year we're aiming to strengthen our partnership with VAC, and previous partner ornagisations, to allow for this growth to continue. It is always a challenge to facilitate a project as logistically complex as this in terms of communicating with hundreds of artists and auction bidders, stronger more strategic partnerships will help meet the demands of these challenges.