Charity Bomb was founded in January of 2018 by twin brothers and musicians in Madina Lake, Matthew & Nathan Leone. During the first two years of operations, Charity Bomb began to produce their Strange benefit series to raise funds for a variety of mental health organizations. “We looked for outlier organizations that we felt were providing the most impactful mental health services and leveraged our artist relationships to produce immersive fundraising concerts.” – Matthew Leone The annual Strange 80s in Los Angeles, Strange 90s in Chicago and Nashville, and Strange Paisley Park (TBA) raised over $160,000 collectively, for organizations like 320 Changes Direction, Give an Hour and The Beat of Life. While these organizations do great work to serve the symptoms of mental illnesses, in 2020, Charity Bomb discovered the correlation between mental illness and a lack of EQ, or emotional intelligence. The Leone brother's curiosity about traditional IQ-based curriculum being devoid of EQ evolved from a passion project, into a career, after discovering the manifestation of childhood trauma and dysfunction into adulthood. Childhood trauma often leads to struggles with depression, bullying, suicide, and addiction. Instead of treating these conditions after they’ve taken hold, Charity Bomb's custom, age-banded EQ exercise worksheets, curriculum lessons and immersive gamified app (in development) help children develop intrapersonal and interpersonal awareness, critical thinking and life skills, relationship-building ability, and strong value profiles. Our ambition is to foster confidence, self-awareness, and the emotional resilience necessary for children to navigate their way to a happy, successful, and fulfilling life, while avoiding the pitfalls of depression, bullying, suicide, and addiction. The advantages of our data-backed method stretch far beyond the scope of preventing these conditions. Students of this curriculum tend to excel in all major pillars of life.