Two of my most favourite gaming conventions of the 12 months have one good thing in frequent: Each TennoCon and Dragon Con elevate cash for a specific charity every year. And never solely do they promote the marketing campaign, they emphasize it as properly. And this 12 months, these two occasions wrapped up the 2023 summer season con season with some huge positive factors for group charities. TennoCon and Dragon Con every raised $200,000 or extra of their nations’ currencies (CAD and USD) for his or her respective charities, Canada Studying Code and CURE Childhood Most cancers.

Tenno generosity

Since its inception, TennoCon has been elevating funds for a lot of native Canadian Charities. Previous initiatives embody serving to the homeless, rising consciousness of points like psychological well being, and supporting youth, girls, veterans, and indigenous training. For 2023, Digital Extremes chosen Canada Studying Code as its charity accomplice. Because the world retains barreling forward technologically, this charity’s mission is to carry accessible laptop science to communities throughout Canada so that everybody can study to create with know-how. Canada Studying Code companions with educators, designs assets, and delivers studying experiences to those that won’t have the ability to discover or entry such assets on their very own. Its official web site states,

“The world is altering, and we would like Canada to be prepared. We’re right here to guarantee that all folks in Canada — notably girls, ladies, folks with disabilities, Indigenous youth and newcomers — have entry to the data they should prosper in our digital world.”

In assist of this mission, Digital Extremes raised $200,000 CAD by way of ticket gross sales to Tenno in addition to participant donations from the dwell stream to ship to the charity. Who is aware of? Possibly a few of these future programmers will work at DE.

Dragon Con doing good

Not like the single-day TennoCon, Dragon Con is a five-day occasion spanning the complete Labor Day weekend. As a bigger, longer occasion, it makes use of a lot of methods to lift funds for its chosen charity, together with internet hosting a particular charity public sale and the Dragon Con Hustle 5K occasion (hey, you stroll a complete lot in the course of the conference anyway, and the complete entry payment goes to charity).

Dragon Con additionally sports activities totally different tracks throughout the con, such horror, puppetry, excessive fantasy, video video games, and a lot extra. Many — if not all — of those tracks additionally set objectives and acquire funds, but it surely all goes to the official charity accomplice of the 12 months. As an example, the Star Wars observe and the Chess Jawa raised $10,000.03. Within the MMORPG scene, the Closing Fantasy XIV group held a contest referred to as Chompin’ for Charity the place donations have been votes between burgers and tacos to feed G’raha Tia; workforce taco received bringing in over $1K, whereas workforce burger added $171 extra to the raised funds.

When it’s all added up, Dragon Con’s dedication was to offering a greenback for greenback match for raised funds, rising its pledge cap from $100,000 to $125,000 for the 2023 present. And this 12 months, all funds raised go to CURE Childhood Most cancers. CURE Childhood Most cancers non-profit is devoted to conquering childhood most cancers by way of each funding focused analysis and supporting sufferers and their households. Since CURE’s beginnings in 1975, they’ve raised thousands and thousands of {dollars} to advance promising analysis, lobbied for vital laws, and offered tangible assist to 1000’s of childhood most cancers sufferers and their households. And because of the generosity of attendees and followers of Dragon Con and the occasion group itself, over $200K (and counting!) was added to assist fund this analysis and assist!

From completely happy tales to good deeds inside our digital worlds and the actual world round us, there’s a lot good within the gaming group. That’s why Massively OP’s MJ Guthrie pens Massively Uplifting: to spotlight these beneficiant, inspiring, heart-warming, and uplifting tales that exist all through the MMOverse. Ship your prompt tales alongside to warmfuzzies@massivelyop.com for our subsequent entry!

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