Child's Play Charity (games For Kids In Hospital)
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<div class="IPBDescription">For Christmas from Penny Arcade & Amazon</div><a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/' target='_blank'>http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/</a>
The guys at <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com' target='_blank'>Penny Arcade</a> are working with Amazon & the Seattle Children's Hospital to make this Christmas a lot better for a lot of unfortunate kids by gamers making donations through an Amazon Wish List.
So far there has been <b>Thirty thousand dollars</b> in donations, but more is always helpful. Since this is the Christmas spirit and all, time of giving, etc. I thought I'd mention it here.
Gabe says it better than I can, so I'll just copy & paste what he said:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Here's the deal.
If you are like me, every time you see an article like <a href='http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/11/18/17748407.cfm' target='_blank'>this one</a> - where the author claims that video games are training our nations youth to kill - you get angry. The media seems intent on perpetuating the myth that gamers are ticking time bombs just waiting to go off. I know for a fact that gamers are good people. I have had the opportunity on multiple occasions to meet hundreds of you at conventions all over the country. We are just regular people who happen to love video games.
With that in mind we have put together a little something we like to call “Child’s Play.” Penny Arcade is working with the <a href='http://www.seattlechildrens.org/' target='_blank'>Seattle Children's Hospital</a> and Amazon.com to make this Christmas really special for a lot of very sick kids. With the help of the Children’s Hospital we have created an <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry/2W2ZGW4875AML/ref%3Dwl%5Fs%5F3/002-4534135-1405607' target='_blank'>Amazon Wish List</a> for the kids. It’s full of video games, movies and toys. Some of these kids are in pretty bad shape and just having a Game Boy would really raise their spirits.
Please take some time to browse the Wish List. Maybe all you can afford is a package of batteries or maybe you want to go in with your entire office and get the kids a GameCube. Every single contribution will help out the Children’s Hospital and the 190,000 kids they treat each year.
All the toys and games will be delivered to us and we will in turn deliver them to the Children’s Hospital. As soon as the toys start arriving I’ll set up a web site and post as many pictures as I can. We will be making a trip over to one of the hospitals next week and we’ll bring you back stories from some of the kids along with more pictures.
Penny Arcade has a readership of something like 150,000 gamers across the world. We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. This isn’t IGN, this isn’t Gamespy, we are not a faceless corporation, you are not just a number tracked by a database and then relayed to hungry advertisers. You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good.
Let’s give these kids the Christmas that they deserve and let’s give the news papers a different kind of story to write about gamers.
-Gabe out<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There's a very touching letter from a PA read who has a son with cancer at said hospital, I suggest you read it <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/letter2.htm' target='_blank'>here</a>.
The NS community has always been full of warm, caring people, so I hope that we can all rally together and help make these kids live's a little bit better.
Click here for more details, including how to make a donation + FAQ:
<a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/' target='_blank'>http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/</a>
The guys at <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com' target='_blank'>Penny Arcade</a> are working with Amazon & the Seattle Children's Hospital to make this Christmas a lot better for a lot of unfortunate kids by gamers making donations through an Amazon Wish List.
So far there has been <b>Thirty thousand dollars</b> in donations, but more is always helpful. Since this is the Christmas spirit and all, time of giving, etc. I thought I'd mention it here.
Gabe says it better than I can, so I'll just copy & paste what he said:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Here's the deal.
If you are like me, every time you see an article like <a href='http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/11/18/17748407.cfm' target='_blank'>this one</a> - where the author claims that video games are training our nations youth to kill - you get angry. The media seems intent on perpetuating the myth that gamers are ticking time bombs just waiting to go off. I know for a fact that gamers are good people. I have had the opportunity on multiple occasions to meet hundreds of you at conventions all over the country. We are just regular people who happen to love video games.
With that in mind we have put together a little something we like to call “Child’s Play.” Penny Arcade is working with the <a href='http://www.seattlechildrens.org/' target='_blank'>Seattle Children's Hospital</a> and Amazon.com to make this Christmas really special for a lot of very sick kids. With the help of the Children’s Hospital we have created an <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry/2W2ZGW4875AML/ref%3Dwl%5Fs%5F3/002-4534135-1405607' target='_blank'>Amazon Wish List</a> for the kids. It’s full of video games, movies and toys. Some of these kids are in pretty bad shape and just having a Game Boy would really raise their spirits.
Please take some time to browse the Wish List. Maybe all you can afford is a package of batteries or maybe you want to go in with your entire office and get the kids a GameCube. Every single contribution will help out the Children’s Hospital and the 190,000 kids they treat each year.
All the toys and games will be delivered to us and we will in turn deliver them to the Children’s Hospital. As soon as the toys start arriving I’ll set up a web site and post as many pictures as I can. We will be making a trip over to one of the hospitals next week and we’ll bring you back stories from some of the kids along with more pictures.
Penny Arcade has a readership of something like 150,000 gamers across the world. We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. This isn’t IGN, this isn’t Gamespy, we are not a faceless corporation, you are not just a number tracked by a database and then relayed to hungry advertisers. You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good.
Let’s give these kids the Christmas that they deserve and let’s give the news papers a different kind of story to write about gamers.
-Gabe out<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There's a very touching letter from a PA read who has a son with cancer at said hospital, I suggest you read it <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/letter2.htm' target='_blank'>here</a>.
The NS community has always been full of warm, caring people, so I hope that we can all rally together and help make these kids live's a little bit better.
Click here for more details, including how to make a donation + FAQ:
<a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/' target='_blank'>http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplay/</a>
Comments
That's cruel!!! ~_^
That's awesome, I'd donate if I had anything.
That's cruel!!! ~_^
That's awesome, I'd donate if I had anything. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No, cruel would be if he gave a gameGEAR.
Yet I can't help but think that the news stations won't be shouting this story from the rooftops. They'll still view all us gamers as potential homicidal maniacs, just one step away from going nuts and blasting everyone to peices. Hopefully though this will make a few people change their minds, whilst of course making Christmas for some kids a great time.
If you sticky it, no one will see it! We just have to keep bumping it, or else no one will look!
Am I the only one for removing the bar between regular topics and stickied topics? Is that possible? Because man, I never look higher that.
3 days ago I won a LARGE collection of YU-GI-OH cards all new and still in the packages, so I sent it to the PA guys instead of sending it to me!
Go and buy come Hot wheels cars or something and send them off, just do what I did and go to Ebay and win stuff for cheap to send!
Good point. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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3 days ago I won a LARGE collection of YU-GI-OH cards all new and still in the packages, so I sent it to the PA guys instead of sending it to me!
Go and buy come Hot wheels cars or something and send them off, just do what I did and go to Ebay and win stuff for cheap to send! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Some of us aren't rolling in dough, and not everyone wins a competition. Besides, there is nothing wrong with getting games that aren't brand new, especially if you aren't going to get much in the first place.
/me goes back to helping the people near her, where she can see where the gifts are going...
Its Penny Arcade. And Amazon.com. And Seattle Children's Hospital...
but it is a good idea
but it is a good idea <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Your nub, like these grown men want all these..legos and dolls.
Merry Christmas!
*can't wait to go home and deliver the Christmas presents her church has been collecting for families* <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Now I understand what all of the anti-videogame people ment when they said children raised on games would grow up abnormal. They were right, we'd all grow up with really big hearts.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Do I just buy the stuff off the wish list and have the delivery address as:
Penny Arcade
18930 Bothell Everett Hwy
Apt. #K102
Bothell, Wa 98012-5224
Or what?
Do I just buy the stuff off the wish list and have the delivery address as:
Penny Arcade
18930 Bothell Everett Hwy
Apt. #K102
Bothell, Wa 98012-5224
Or what? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The wishlist should be set up to send directly to them as it is, you just pay for the stuff.
The problem is one of accountability. I don’t know what sort of records they keep for all of this, but the only thing I’ve seen so far is: "here’s a picture of my car full of toys", "here’s one of a warehouse full of toys", and "we added up the value of the merchandise to over $64,000, you guys are great". I think most of us are willing to trust PA and give them the benefit of the doubt; but the video-game-hating media isn’t, and one of the goals of this project was to show them that gamers are good people too. If things were “better documented” or “more professional” I think they would have a better chance of impressing the media.
Also, I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know anything about how one goes about setting up a charity, but I don’t think this is an officially registered charity that you can deduct from your taxes and that sort of thing. Granted, the main purpose of this venture is to help the kids, and that is really all that is important.