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Games for Change needs your help!
Posted by Mark Smith on 12-30-09
Games for Change (G4C) is a 501c3 which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. G4C acts as a voice for the transformative power of games, bringing together organizations and individuals from the nonprofit sector, government, journalism, academia, industry and the arts, to grow the field and provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and resources. Through this work, Games for Change promotes new kinds of games that engage contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and tolerant society.
Games for Change is the primary community of practice and international nexus for this emerging sector, with regional groups and events around the world. Founded in 2004, Games for Change acts as a knowledge base and resource hub to help organizations and individuals network and develop video game projects beyond their traditional expertise, and provides special assistance to foundations and nonprofits entering the field. G4C is working with a variety of high impact partners to foster and shape this new genre, including Microsoft, mTV, the White House and a variety of NGOs and universities. G4C has a vibrant online community and extensive web resources, a hub where visitors can play all the latest games and find the latest research. The Annual Games for Change Festival, called “the Sundance of video games” “for socially-conscious game-makers” is now the biggest game event in New York City. The 7th Annual Festival takes place May 24 - 26, 2010 at Parsons, The New School for Design.
We think games are the greatest medium of our time to engage young people - and mass audiences of all kinds - in the most pressing issues of our day. We see kids playing these new social issues games for 6 - 8 - 10 hours at a time - millions of kids. We see kids clicking on the word “games” 50 times more often than other words on sites like pbskids.org. We see tens of thousands of letters to congress and other real-world actions being generated directly from these new games. This list goes on.
If you’d like to help us grow this field - to make more social issue games for positive impact - please donate.
I have never written such a letter. But Games for Change really needs your help this year.
Thank you for any contribution you can make - you help keep us going strong.
Suzanne
Suzanne Seggerman
President, Co-founder
Games for Change
http://www.gamesforchange.org