Omaze is a website that a friend introduced me to a while back, as a fellow Doctor Who fan. At the time, they were running a sweepstakes/raffle for a chance to eat breakfast with some of the different Doctor’s.
This is what Omaze does: they get famous people to agree to some activity or another that they’d be willing to engage in with a random fan and choose a charity. The sweepstakes is set up on the website, and, quantity depending on how much money you donate, you get chances to win the sweepstakes. For instance, there was one that was tea with Benedict Cumberbatch in LA followed by the Avengers Infinity War Premiere. All of the money from the raffle goes to the charity that was chosen. To continue the example above, Mr. Cumberbatch chose the GEANCO Foundation, which aids the poor and vulnerable in Africa.
I think that Omaze is a really nice idea, because it allows people to meet their idols while simultaneously helping others. I’ve only followed the possibilities on it loosely, generally, but what I have seen was quite impressing, both by how much they can get the celebrities to engage in this sort of thing and by how much money they’ve been able to raise through it.
