Check out Marcia Morgan raising awareness about Extra Life to supporting kids at a convention today! Who wouldn’t take a minute to chat with Marcia and learn more about how to raise money for kids while playing games for 24 hours? Shoot, most of us dream about having time to play games for 24 hours straight. Well Marcia puts her fame to work by not only participating in Extra Life events and raising money directly,…
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We talked about Carrie’s attempt to break a few world records while raising funds to fight childhood obesity by dancing for 140 hours. Congratulations are definitely in order! Carrie is living proof that you can accomplish anything to which you put your mind. Carrie set the longest video game marathon of all time by Just Dancing for 138 hours! Huge thanks to Carrie for raising awareness and funds to fight childhood obesity. Keep up the…
In connection with the Gamers Outreach Foundation, Wolves at my Door will host a 24 hour charity live stream starting on July 11, 2015, at 5 pm EST. Tune in to his twitch channel: Twitch.tv/Wolvesatmydoor to watch him play and to donate to this charitable event. Wolves at my door will be hosting this live stream to raise money for a GO Kart in a New Jersey Children’s Hospital! In case you missed it, head…
In the event you were looking for something amazingly positive to do with your upcoming Saturday (the 18th), Gamers for Good is partnering with the Compton Initiative for their summer workday! Head on out and get your hands dirty with Gamers for Good! Work alongside fellow gamers and other BigHearted locals for restoration and beautification in the Compton community. Join over 1,500 other volunteers in painting schools, homes, churches, murals, block -clean ups and gardens…
Exergaming, we’ve all heard of it, right? Exercising while gaming? C’mon! Who doesn’t exercise when they game?! While some of us may exercise our lungs and our capacity for thinking up new ways of harassing our opponents, most of us don’t really work up too much of a sweat while gaming. Carrie Swidecki is an exception to this general statement. Between July 11 and 17, 2015, Carrie will will be attempting to set the overall…
There aren’t many things worse than not being able to do something you really want to do or feeling left out because you can’t do the things your friends are doing. People who are disabled often feel left out or left behind when their friends are all doing things that they cannot physically accomplish. For example, merely because someone is disabled doesn’t mean that they don’t want to play video games. Thankfully Special Effect is…
While not every one of our posts will be about helping children who are spending time in hospitals, you have to admit, that’s a pretty cool thing to do, right? Enter Child’s Play. Child’s Play was established in 2003 by the authors of Penny Arcade as a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Since their inception in 2003, as…
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Zach Wigal for some years now. I’ve always been struck by his enthusiasm and never-ending desire to help. Not surprisingly, this desire to help started when Zach was pretty young. While I could do my best to fill you in on how his quest to help others began, the wiki page for Gamers Outreach (the nonprofit foundation he helps run), does a better job of it: In March 2007,…
Webster’s dictionary defines “BigHearted” as generous or charitable. Whether many of us know it or not, there are thousands of gamers in the world who are bighearted. With mainstream media focusing on sensational articles or scandals, much of this generosity goes unnoticed. It is time for this to change. We need more positive in our lives. We need to know that humans are not all negative and horrible. We need to have our faith in…