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Child's Play 2007 Gets Underway
It is well worth mentioning that a post by Tycho over on the Penny Arcade site signals the kickoff for Child's Play 2007. This year they have over 30 hospitals spread across five countries, and (as always) every little bit helps. From Mr. Brahe's post: "At the last Child's Play dinner, a man whose son was currently staying at Seattle Children's Hospital - he'd left him temporarily, to attend - literally could not produce the words to thank me. The depth of his appreciation bordered on anguish. I hardly knew how to respond, other than attribute those comforts to their true authors. The opportunity to be excellent has arisen again. Just as in years past, visit the site proper, choose your favorite hospital, and select your toy. We promise to let you know how incredible you are at regular intervals."
Scrape 20 bucks up and go buy something.
They keep nothing, the world volunteer, everything goes to the hospital.
Your charity will allow children in pain to laugh and forget.
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Child's Play 2007!
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These guys continually try to convince the world that they're assholes. They will tell you repeatedly what mean, horrible people they are, while at the same time donating $10,000 in Jack Thompson's name, creating a scholarship out of their pockets, and organizing this great charity where they pocket absolutely nothing.
Man, they suck at proving what horrible people they are.
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I'd love to see Child's Play show up near the top of the list as having one of the lowest CEO salaries or administrative expenses -- "Gamers -- Violent Psychopaths, Generous Givers, or both?"
You could have a hospital for healthy people, but it would just be for elective surgeries, (like breast augmentation, vascetomy,...) and routine check-ups, like physicals, mammographies, colonoscopies, ...
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Oh come on! If this were a movie, it would take three or four sequels to do it justice.
Besides, Martha Stewart never does anything like this.
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$18 and about five minutes of my time. I hope some kids enjoy the heck out it.
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great cause, Now I feel all good inside!
They're using their grammar skills there.
It seems the hospital was founded way back in 1875, well before marketing took over the naming of everything in existence. It seems like just the sort of perfectly accurate and utilitarian name that was popular in that era. These days, I'm sure they would have invented some nonsensical non-word that was vaguely reminiscent of health care to name it instead.
Good on them for starting a charity that does a lot of good. However, can someone tell me why not just send the hospitals money instead?
This means you cut out the middle man of amazon so the hospitals effectively get more money and it also means the hospitals can use the money as they see fit. I agree games and toys are important, but sometimes new medical equipment is more important. Regardless I figure let the hospitals decide.
You don't have kids, do you? Healthy kids go to the hospital all the time. Check-ups, immunizations, bruises and scrapes, etc.
I love this charity and I will surely contribute again, but I can't help but feel a little awkward about the money that amazon is making by offering their goods at full commercial prices. If they would just hand in a little of their profits by offering some discounts for charity, much more could be given to the children.
Why isn't this a slashdot main feature article? I'm sure this is a lot more important than "OMG Iphone hax0red with 5 byte hack!". This project could use some slashdot attention.
First off - great idea. Love it. Gonna go there and buy something for a kids' hospital somewhere myself after this.
But... how is the new Casino Royale children's hospital material? http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html/?_&id=1YESGR3K97CSS
And 5 of those?
I mean.. I can imagine one teen desperately needing a daily dose of Daniel Craig in his/hers life, but five of them?
Or could it be that someone thought that this would make a great (free) Christmas gift?
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What is it about being a sick kid that makes you so worthy for everything? What about sick kids in other parts of the globe? What about non-sick kids in other parts of the globe? In all other species, the sick kids don't survive. In ours, they are apparently entertained to no end.
This is a good question, and the answer is: you *can* donate money. The Paypal link and address for donations by check are right in the middle of http://www.childsplaycharity.org/. In this case there is no benefit to cutting out the middle man (Child's Play), because we don't take out any money from the donation pool. Donate a dollar to CP, and we'll give that dollar to a hospital. So why not just send the dollar directly to the hospital? Because we use the cash donations to balance out the toy donations. Say the hospital in New Orleans has gotten plenty of toy donations, but the hospital in Liverpool has gotten few. We'll use the cash pool to even things out. The other benefit is that donating through Child's Play enables us to track total donations. This is important because one of the reasons Child's Play works is because donors, hospitals, and the media see evidence that it works: the yearly donation totals. A $10 check sent to Child's Play is counted; a $10 check to a hospital is not. Both result in a hospital getting $10. So might as well help out the drive, and send the check to CP. All that said, if you'd rather mail a check directly to the hospital of your choice PLEASE DO SO. The whole point is helping out sick kids.