Bonus Missions

AnpanARMY

One of the most common questions One In An ARMY receives is: how can I help if I can’t donate money? The simple answer is: just share our campaign posts! Even if you can’t donate, every retweet and share is incredibly valuable. You might not be able to donate, but maybe one of your followers or family members can. Everyone who shares should consider themselves a participant in the campaign!

But there are some ARMY who want to go above and beyond. The One In An ARMY team put our thinking caps on and came up with a proposal: #AnpanARMY. Named by ARMY, #AnpanARMY is a monthly tradition where we celebrate the ideals of BTS and the giving spirit of ARMY.

On the 17th of every month (KST), ARMY will come together and celebrate any acts of kindness they’ve done during the month using #AnpanARMY. This can be anything you’ve done to help make the world a better place: saying something kind to someone, feeding a stray animal, volunteering somewhere, helping someone perform a task, etc. You can share your experience through pictures, stories, videos, any way you want – the choice is yours!

We believe the kind hearts and good spirits of ARMY should be celebrated – not just once, but every month! Our timelines tend to fixate on negative issues, and it’s easy to forget that ARMY is a massive fandom – which means sometimes the positive things get lost in the shuffle. The negativity comes and goes, but as our fandom goes through growing pains, it’s important to remember that ARMYs are an incredibly diverse group of people brought together by a shared love for seven Korean men fighting to make the world a better place through music. Let’s come together and demonstrate what a wonderful family ARMY has become and will always be, thanks to the inspiration of our boys and the drive ARMY has to do good!

Check out our Twitter thread for a crash course on how to participate in the #AnpanARMY campaign!

You can also visit our AnpanARMY Love Yourself Tour thread to find out more about the projects run in conjuncture with the North American and European tour stops or check out this video by MTV News to see what ARMY did at Citifield in 2018!

ARMY doing charity

One In An ARMY was by no means the first or only group of BTS fans to run charity projects. We try and share news of other ARMY projects whenever they come across our timeline, but in case you missed some, here’s a list of every ARMY charity project shared with us since June 2013!

If you’re the type of person who prefers visuals, you can view our ARMY charity projects maps! The Chapter 1 map is projects from June 2013-July 2022, and the Chapter 2 map is projects from August 2022-present. To view the map in full and sort projects by continent or year, click ‘view larger map’ in the top right corner. If you ran an ARMY charity project by yourself or with a fanbase and would like to add it to our map, please fill out this form. To learn more about how the map works, check out this thread.

Black Lives Matter

When George Floyd was murdered by police, the Black Lives Matter movement was mobilized in the most significant way since its formation in 2013. Given the diversity in the fandom (BTS have a significant number of Black and biracial fans) and the strong desire to help others, it’s unsurprising that ARMY wanted to help support the movement.

In response to ARMY’s request, One In An ARMY immediately began pulling together resources and created a main thread which was updated as new resources came in. As with any fundraiser, we adhere to our own internal rules for vetting and promoting a fundraiser or organization (see #20 in our FAQ for more information). The good news is that our rules let us promote several organizations that provide both immediate resources and long-term support for the Black Lives Matter movement and black people. On June 1 we published a carrd that allows ARMY to donate to the organizations that meet our guidelines. In the first 4.5 days, the total number of donations made through the split donations feature tallied approximately $50,000 USD.

On Saturday, June 6 Variety reported that earlier in the week BTS and Big Hit Entertainment donated $1,000,000 USD to Black Lives Matter. This sparked ARMY to trend #MatchAMillion (prompted by @naija0329, coined by @MonospIaylist) worldwide on Twitter to encourage ARMY to match BTS’ donation. On Sunday, June 7 donations surpassed the $1,000,000 USD mark. Media coverage of the #MatchAMillion campaign can be found on our Media page. We also issued our own press release about the fundraiser.

How to donate

We compiled the organizations that meet our internal guidelines into a carrd. Even if you only donate to one organization, please click Split Donation as this allows us to see a grand total of how much ARMY have raised.

We recognize that we are likely only tracking a portion of ARMY donations, as many ARMY have donated directly to organizations or have pre-existing monthly donations set up. If you did not select Split Donation on our carrd but would like to have your donation counted towards the ARMY total, please fill out this form.

We encourage ARMY to continue educating themselves on the history of anti-Black racism in the United States as well as anti-Black racism that occurs in your own country. Continue donating, signing petitions, calling/emailing your local politicians, voting in elections at every level of politics, engaging in local activism (as safely as possible), sharing educational tools, and standing up to racism in your own communities and families. We can’t end racism overnight. But we can create real change when we all stand together.

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COVID-19 relief efforts

In April 2020, One In An ARMY organized a campaign called Our Remedy Is ARMY to support COVID-19 relief efforts. Our usual monthly projects focus on helping a single organization, but for that project we reached out to non-profits we worked with on previous campaigns and found that many of them were (and still are) in dire need of donations. Groups that were already in precarious situations are extremely vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 and are more likely to be hit harder with the economic fallout. Additionally, since One In An ARMY predominantly works with smaller non-profits, these organizations are facing staffing and supply shortages. These organizations play a vital role in keeping people and animals safe and healthy, physically and mentally. It is crucial to keep these organizations operating through the pandemic.

The Our Remedy Is ARMY campaign has officially ended – with 690 ARMY from 44+ countries raising $11,559.10 USD – with a full summary of the campaign available in our archive. However, on June 22 after the news broke that BTS and Big Hit Entertainment donated $1,000,000 USD to Live Nation’s Crew Nation campaign (which aims to support touring and venue crews put out of work by COVID-19) we were asked to consider a second #MatchAMillion challenge like the one ARMY created to fund raise for Black Lives Matter.

One In An ARMY typically doesn’t organize campaigns in response to crisis situations (see #18, #20, and #21 in our FAQ for our reasoning) but in some cases we have created crisis threads. Our previous crisis threads are stored on our Bonus Missions page and our new crisis threads are housed in our Crisis Carrd Directory. When ARMY requested we pull together resources that supported Black Lives Matter, we created a carrd ( published on June 1) that allowed ARMY to donate to the organizations that meet our own internal guidelines. When news of BTS and Big Hit Entertainment’s $1,000,000 USD donation to Black Lives Matter was published on June 6, we simply shared our existing carrd to facilitate donations.

In light of BTS’ Crew Nation donation and requests from ARMY, we’ve revamped our April 2020 campaign page (with the addition of Global Food Banking Network, the beneficiary of our current campaign) to facilitate ARMY donations to non-profits impacted by COVID-19. We ask that ARMY donate only if they’re able, as we realize that many ARMY are also impacted physically and/or financially by COVID-19. Please make sure you’re taking care of yourselves during this crisis. You can also read the summary of our previous campaigns with those organizations in our archive. The list of non-profits we’re highlighting (and the original date we worked with them) are:

*After BTS appeared on The Late Late Show’s special broadcast of Home Fest, there was interest from ARMY to donate to the two fundraisers promoted on the show: the CDC Foundation and Feed The Children. We encouraged donations to those two organizations but didn’t officially collaborate on a fundraiser with them.

Our Impact

If you are interested in learning more about the organizations, you can find links to their websites below. Each organization has also given us a rough summary of what our donations will be funding during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Medical Teams International: Preventing the spread of COVID-19 and supporting local health systems in responding to it by promoting good hygiene, shipping personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals and repurposing their Mobile Dental Vans in the US to serve as drive-thru screening sites.
  • Thirst Relief: To provide a safe way to wash their hands and help stop the spread of sickness in the homes of 120 at risk children that attend a school in Kampala, Uganda. They have no clean water at home, so they can’t wash their hands and maintain hygiene, which is extremely important in the current situation.
  • Korean Kids and Orphanage Outreach Mission: The funds will help them maintain the basic necessities of the children in their care. They have been placed on mandatory quarantine by the government for the last 7 weeks, and KKOOM is concerned about the emotional well-being of the children (ranging from 1 1/2 to 19 years old).
  • MindLeaps: Due to the pandemic, dance classes have been put on hold. MindLeaps continues to provide life-saving stipends to their refugee dance teachers. In addition, they are coming up with a plan to continue to provide daily meals to their students at the Rwanda Center which, for many of them, is the only meal they receive daily.
  • Cuatro Por Venezuela: Help Venezuela to fight this very contagious disease by funding protective supplies for health workers, hand sanitizer, and soap. The health crisis in Venezuela has been ongoing since 2016 and they aren’t prepared to deal with COVID-19. The shortage of medicine and medical supplies is devastating. They also lack access to clean water and basic hygiene products.
  • Purple Community Fund: COVID-19 has resulted in a 24/7 lock-down, with many families unable to work and earn money to buy food or medicine. PCF will provide people in the communities they serve with much needed life-saving supplies.
  • Children’s Healing Art Project: CHAP staff are assembling CHAP art packs of healing art supplies for sick children with a note of encouragement to drop off at area hospitals and distributed by nurses. They are also working on how-to videos of creative art projects for children to do at home, as well as planning to use video conferencing with their Art Club children to interact and maintain their community.
  • Playing For Change Foundation: Your funds will help PFCF take the necessary measures to care for the population and health professionals in Argentina by purchasing supplies that allow the construction of protective masks and providing hygiene items
  • 100cameras: To help the situation in their unique way, 100cameras is creating an online resource to meet youth through remote learning. Inspired by their exceptional curriculum, the activities are specifically written to support children in their individual situations, be it challenges of isolation, or fear and anxiety in the current crisis. The experience will provide a new tool to learn how to express these feelings through photography and feel connected to others while also having fun.
  • CDC Foundation: Your donation to the CDC Foundation is funding medical supplies, increasing lab capacity, deploying emergency staffing to U.S. public health agencies, providing support to vulnerable communities, addressing health communication needs, boosting clinical research to improve health outcomes, building capacity and infrastructure for global response efforts, and much more.
  • Feed the Children: Struggling children and families need your help more than ever during this COVID-19 crisis. Each dollar donated will provide $7 worth of the food and essentials we are working tirelessly to get into the hands of the most vulnerable.
  • Global Food Bank Network: Food banking organizations are seeing an overwhelming increase in demand for food aid. We are providing crucial support and important communication channels for food banks to prepare and respond to this growing need. Our response has included: a COVID-19 response fund that so far has supported relief efforts in 45 countries, technical support to help food banks procure and distribute meals, knowledge sharing to help food banking organizations serve more children and families in crisis by navigating supply chain disruptions and evolving distribution mechanisms, and appeals to governments and businesses to be provide relief to vulnerable populations adversely affected by this crisis.
Crisis Carrd Directory, Info Threads, And Statements

Every day, we are inspired by the enthusiasm we see in ARMY to bring a positive change in the world. Because we are such a huge fandom, even the smallest of efforts can have amazing results. ARMY’s passion resonates with One In An ARMY, and so we try to launch campaigns which support organizations and projects that are making a tangible impact on people’s lives. 

One In An ARMY is comprised of volunteers who work several months in advance to research and vet organizations that need support, set up campaigns, and carry them out, all while making sure that the entire process is trackable to maintain our transparency. Taking into account the time required to complete this process, we restrict ourselves to monthly campaigns. Also, because One In An ARMY is a charity-focused account, it is difficult and unusual for us to support any other type of activity. For more details on how we work, please visit the FAQ and read #16 #18 and #20.

We are completely aware that there are a lot of pressing issues in the world that demand everyone’s attention. As and when we get information on these issues, we investigate the projects run by other ARMY and support any that fit our sharing rules. For situations that demand our urgent attention, because we are not able to launch an immediate campaign, we work on crisis threads. Using these threads, we highlight organizations that are working on each specific cause. ARMY can direct their donations and support to these organizations. All the information for the threads, campaigns, and ARMY projects highlighted can be found on our socials.

However, even with the crisis threads, we are not able to take on all of the causes and the reasons why vary. Crisis threads, like any other campaign, need thorough research because the team has to search for the right organizations: they cannot be personal fundraisers, and must also fit our other guidelines. Sometimes, the resources are just not available to make the thread. On other occasions, we have no spare time or members because the team is already occupied with another campaign. Lastly, because there are always so many issues happening at the same time, we are not able to cover everything. Though we may not be able to get to all, it does not mean that we don’t consider these causes important or that we won’t potentially cover them in the future. Instead, we work on whatever we are able to at any given point of time, depending on our volunteers’ availability.

For up-to-date information, please visit our Crisis Carrd Directory which hosts information on how to donate to current crisis as well as crisis our team is already researching.

We also have a number of crisis threads we wrote before switching to the Carrd system:

Freerice

Freerice is an ad-supported website that lets you play games and earn grains of rice for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). It’s also available for iOS and Android devices. Players select a category and take multiple choice quizzes. For every correct answer, 10 grains of rice are donated to WFP.

One In An ARMY have been fans of Freerice since the end of 2018 and we issued our first call-out for ARMY players in May, 2019. As always, ARMY enthusiastically took up the call (occasionally causing a few hiccups along the way) and the BTS ARMY group has been #1 on the Leaderboard for Top Groups since September, 2019. One In An ARMY has facilitated several Freerice challenges (linked below) and encourages active participation regularly. If you’d like to create an account and help contribute rice to people in need, follow our sign-up instructions and get playing!

​As of 2020, we now have an ARMY Freerice Leaderboard! The leaderboard is open to any teams that regularly use Freerice. To register your team, simply fill out your team’s info on this spreadsheet and then update as needed. The leaderboard will update every Sunday at 9:00 am KST.

​If you’d like to join your regional team or a global team, use the codes below, follow our tutorial, and start gaining those grains!

Hashtags and Retweet Projects

Twitter is ARMY’s playground, so it makes sense that ARMY has been super successful at hashtag sharing campaigns. Below is a list of 3rd party campaigns ARMY have helped to meet their fundraiser goal (please note that none of these projects were organized by One In An ARMY – we just shared info tweets!)

Seasonal Projects

In December 2018, we decided to try something a little different. In addition to Seokjin’s birthday campaign and bonus mission, we started a seasonal challenge called ARMY Share The Warmth. Instead of focusing on a specific non-profit, we challenged ARMY all over the world to connect with local homeless shelters, find out what items were in high demand, and then donate those items along with a pre-written note.

The campaign is still ongoing. All you have to do to participate is:​

1. Contact any local shelter & ask if they need warm item donations.

2. Donate whatever items you can – even if it’s as small as a hat or some socks. Every little bit helps someone!

3. Include this letter with your donation

4. Share with the hashtag #ARMYShareTheWarmth & encourage ARMYs everywhere to do it too!

The letter asks the recipients of the donation to check in on social media where it was received. If they choose to do so, we’ll be able to follow the hashtag and see where ARMYs have made an impact for people in need around the world! This is something you can do on your own, with friends and family, or with fellow local ARMYs! Just include the letter, and let’s see if we can see how far this project can go!

No snow? No problem!

We realize not everyone is having cold weather and some places don’t have homeless shelters. You can still participate! Feel free to be creative – share the warmth by donating something to an elderly home, orphanage, or even animal shelter. If you’re not in a cold climate, contact the orgs and find out if there’s anything they DO need!

Seed of Hope

For BTS’ 2022 anniversary, One In An ARMY ran a campaign highlighting 6 organizations that all benefit the environment. In addition to donating, we encouraged ARMY to:

  • Collect trash around your town and share a before/after picture of the area with us!
  • Show us an item you upcycled!
  • Plant seeds or a plant and show us a photo!
  • Share what eco-friendly items you use. Maybe you can inspire someone!

Share them with #SeedOfHope to encourage others to try out some new things as well.​

Tips for planting seeds

  • Choose plants that are native to your area or that can thrive and grow in the climate and space you’re planting in
  • If you are unsure, ask in your local gardening centre!
  • If you don’t have a garden, potted plants for outdoor or indoor could be an option
  • You could also check if there is a community garden in your area​

Environmental Advocacy Backgrounder

While individual actions are an important part to contribute to the bigger picture, there are a lot of things that can’t be solved by them. That’s why we decided to bring back our Environmental Advocacy Backgrounder from We Purple Earth.

ShareTheMeal

ShareTheMeal is a crowdfunding app that lets users donate to specific United Nations World Food Programme projects. In July 2018, One In An ARMY created a team on the app and started the #EatJinChallenge. Since then, the team has been featured as a top fundraiser and was even given a shout-out on #TeamTuesday. You can check out our past challenges by clicking on the links below. Donations are ongoing, so download the app for iOS or Android and follow our tutorial to start giving!

Side Projects

We know first hand that ARMY’s capacity to do good is incredible. In fact, there’s so much enthusiasm for charity and volunteer work that ARMYs have sent us requests for other projects they can participate in besides our monthly campaigns. Below is a list of side projects the One In An ARMY team has researched and created tutorials for. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!

We Purple Earth

New for the 2019/2020 birthday season, One In An ARMY ran #WePurpleEarth; a special BTS birthday project for a better tomorrow on our planet earth. Along with our regular birthday campaigns, each member’s birthday was accompanied by a 48-hour flash donation period benefiting One Tree Planted. One Tree Planted is a non-profit that plants trees around the world. Every dollar raised pays to plant one tree.

The birthday flash donations have now ended. After just two flash donation periods, the BTS ARMY team became one of the top ranked teams. the  In total, the BTS ARMY team raised enough to plant 33,000 trees! The trees were planted in Peru (to help regrow the Amazon rainforest), Indonesia, Canada and USA (in the Pacific Northwest to help the Endangered Southern Resident Orca), Australia, and Ghana.

A summary report of the We Purple Earth Bonus Mission. ARMY donated enough to plant 33,000 trees around the world. The poster is pastel pink and features a map of the world showing each region where the trees will be planted.
Poster detailing the trees ARMY funded in Australia through We Purple Earth. One Tree Planted worked to restore streams that feed into the Pacific Ocean and plant trees that benefit regional habitat and engage the next generation of Orca whale caretakers. The project engaged 4,000 volunteers.
Poster detailing the trees ARMY funded in Australia through We Purple Earth. One Tree Planted worked in Lampung, Sumantra, Indonesia. The project involved over 1,158 staff and volunteers and planted Durian, Sugar Palm, and fifteen other species.
Poster detailing the trees ARMY funded in Australia through We Purple Earth. One Tree Planted worked with over 330 volunteers in the Tongo Hills. The project will increase vegetation which will help to reduce the occurrence of forest fires, create habitat corridors for local wildlife, and benefit local farming communities through fodder for livestock and easing of human-wildlife conflicts.
Poster detailing the trees ARMY funded in Australia through We Purple Earth. One Tree Planted worked in the Southwest Catchment and planted Acacia, Banksia, Eucalyptus, Melaleuca, and other species. 19 people were employed on planting projects and 67 community members volunteered their time to help plant trees.

Our team fundraising page remains open for more donations with the understanding that One Tree Planted will decide where to plant any subsequent donations. There were a surge of post-birthday donations on Earth Day 2020 and the page continues to receive donations to this day!

We Purple Earth also received a flurry of donations in February 2021 when BTS collaborated with Coldplay on the song My Universe. For every CD, cassette, and vinyl of My Universe bought on the Coldplay store, Coldplay committed to planting a tree through One Tree Planted. This encouraged ARMY to make additional donations to One Tree Planted, and in less than 48 hours ARMY donated 3,800 trees!

Another aspect of We Purple Earth is an ongoing challenge to make our everyday lives more eco friendly. Every time you recycle, plant something, clean up trash, reduce your consumption (of water, electricity, meat, etc) or do another environmentally friendly activity you can fill out our form. The form responses will be used to populate our map. Even though the Bangtan birthday season is over, the map will continue to be updated, so please feel free to fill out the form as many times as you’d like! We also encourage you to post your challenge actions online using the tag #WePurpleEarth. You can also use our Twibbon to spread the project.