The Harry Potter Alliance is an organisation based around the Harry Potter Fandom designed to raise funds towards charitable causes through campaigns and events related to the series. It was founded by comedian Andrew Slack to highlight the crisis in Sudan and social inequities. They have received recognition from many popular figures in the Harry Potter World and earned a $250,000 grant from the Chase Community Giving foundation.

Campaigns

In January 2010, The Harry Potter Alliance hosted a live webcast to raise funds for Haiti. Many fans are encouraged to promote the webcast before it begins and donate items to be auctioned off. Several that they were auctioning were things such as a Full Access Leakycon 2011 Registration and a guest spot on a PotterCast

PotterCast

PotterCast is the official podcast of the Harry Potter fansite The Leaky Cauldron. Its episodes are posted once per month and are typically about an hour long. In every episode, the hosts discuss particular passages, themes, and questions from the Harry Potter books and films, and they go over the...

 Broadcast. Many wizard rock bands and leaders in the Harry Potter community took part in this. In only the first two weeks of preparation, they raised $US123,754.41.

In June 2010, The Harry Potter Alliances beside Savetheinternet.com joined together to campaign for Net Neutrality. They launched a viral video consisting of many well-known figures speaking out for the cause, several of the people who took part were John Green, Hank Green

Hank Green

William Henry "Hank" Green II is a professional vlogger and entrepreneur. He is the founder of VidCon and EcoGeek.org and the co-founder of DFTBA Records. He is also a singer/songwriter and has released three studio albums...

, Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton

Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III is an American actor and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me and Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers...

, Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson is an American author of young adult fiction. She has published eight young adult novels to date, including the Suite Scarlett series and The Last Little Blue Envelope. Johnson is also the founder of the political networking site .-Early life:Maureen Johnson is a graduate of the...

 and Adam Savage

Adam Savage

Adam Whitney Savage is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters. His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and The Matrix...

. In this video they all urged the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 to preserve Net Neutrality.

Notable Discoveries

JK Rowling discovered this group, and according to Time she said "It's incredible, it's humbling, and it's uplifting to see people going out there and doing that in the name of your character,"
She soon after featured the organisation on her website.

Emerson Spartz, founder of MuggleNet

MuggleNet

MuggleNet is a Harry Potter fansite founded by Emerson Spartz. The site is composed of news, editorials and synopses of the Harry Potter books and films, an encyclopedia of the books, an IRC network, in which the fans of Harry Potter can discuss predictions and share thoughts, a discussion forum,...

, has embraced the Harry Potter Alliance. "As readers we get very emotional when werewolves and house elves are being discriminated against," he describes. "The Harry Potter Alliance shows how those feelings can relate to real problems that we can solve."