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Child's Play Approaches Half a Million Dollars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-in-there-now dept.

SecureTheNet writes "Created by Penny Arcade, the Child's Play Charity gives all toy and monetary donations directly to hospitals for distribution to sick kids. There are NO administration fees taken. As the holidays approach, the donations are approaching half a million dollars!"

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  1. Re:That is great.. by PhoenixFlare · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dumping 500.000$ at once at an organisation that is not used to handling that kind of money isn't efficient .

    If you'd actually read about the project, you'd see that the donations are split up among many different hospitals, and a large part of the donations are actually in the form of items bought through Amazon....So there is not going to be just a giant lump sum dumped on the charity or any of the receiving organizations.

  2. UK Hospital Added by FalconZero · · Score: 5, Informative
    Child's play added a UK hospital: Alder Hey childrens hospital. So UK gamers/nerds out there should get over there and donate (if you havn't already).

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