Game for Charity Announces Two Not-for-Profit Online Casual Game Tournaments
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National MS Society and the Cochiti Indian tribe are hosting online gaming tournaments to raise more than $150,000
ATLANTA (November 19, 2007) – Game for Charity announces two online charity game tournaments live with National MS Society and Cochiti Indian tribe. Game for Charity’s patent-pending method and technology allows not-for-profit organizations the ability to utilize casual games in a skilled tournament fashion over the Internet as an incentive to donors. The offering has a high-yield return to charities with 80 percent of entrance fees going to the charity.
Online giving is a small percentage of the $223 billion given by Americans to charitable organizations last year and it’s growing by 51 percent a year, according to the ePhilanthropy Foundation. “We are providing charitable organizations with the tools to marry the hyper-growth of online charitable giving with the most popular activity on the web, online gaming. More than one-third, or 34 percent of Internet users in the U.S. play games on the Internet at least once per week, according to Parks Associates a research & analysis firm”, says Andrew Wells, CEO and co-founder of Game for Charity.
Roy Rangel, president of the MS Society’s Georgia chapter, says “Game for Charity not only provides us with the lowest-cost fundraising mechanism but also allows us to interact with our donors in a fun, memorable, and entertaining way”.
“We are partnering with Game for Charity to raise funds to build a learning center that teaches the Cochiti children their native language”, says Dr. Lily-Wong Fillmore, a specialist on the revitalization of Indigenous Languages and retired professor from Cal Berkeley. “The Keres language is in jeopardy of being lost forever and along with it the cultural identity of the Pueblo Indians”.
To play, support, and potentially win more than $10,000 in prizes go to:
Cochiti Indian tribe – www.gameforcharity/IKLC
National MS Society – Georgia Chapter – www.gameforcharity.com/MS
About Rezilio:
Rezilio products and services include: not-for-profit through Game for Charity http://www.gameforcharity.com, consumer gaming portals Playzi http://www.playzi.com and Playoki http://www.playoki.com, and skilled gaming technology and casual game development through the corporate office of Rezilio http://www.rezilio.com.
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