Tuesday
Dec152009
Gaming Means Giving
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 12:08AM
With the holidays peeking just over the horizon, we know that a new wave of toys and electronics will be making its way into our cozy (in other words, small) house. So for a few weekends in December, we hold a few Purge & Donate parties. One of our most cluttered areas? The video game shelf. With a 5-year-old 
boy who loves his Wii, Playstation and DS – and a mom who maintains a pretty solid list of titles herself – the media shelves can start to sag.
Check out Donate Games, a nonprofit that takes your game trade-ins and offers a place where you can buy, too. The OC-based organization raises funds for so-called "orphan diseases" – a class of rare, debilitating (usually genetic) and often fatal diseases that strike a small portion of the population. For these diseases, which most people have never heard of, there are no cross-country run/walks or telethons. Founder Jim Carol, the father of a son who survived an orphan disease, started this organization to help this underserved group.
The donation process is easy and painless. Just pop your games into an envelope, download and print out a shipping label and send it off. Then do some shopping to find cool new titles to fill those spaces in the shelves. And feel good knowing that you can be Guitar Hero on more than one level.
boy who loves his Wii, Playstation and DS – and a mom who maintains a pretty solid list of titles herself – the media shelves can start to sag.Check out Donate Games, a nonprofit that takes your game trade-ins and offers a place where you can buy, too. The OC-based organization raises funds for so-called "orphan diseases" – a class of rare, debilitating (usually genetic) and often fatal diseases that strike a small portion of the population. For these diseases, which most people have never heard of, there are no cross-country run/walks or telethons. Founder Jim Carol, the father of a son who survived an orphan disease, started this organization to help this underserved group.
The donation process is easy and painless. Just pop your games into an envelope, download and print out a shipping label and send it off. Then do some shopping to find cool new titles to fill those spaces in the shelves. And feel good knowing that you can be Guitar Hero on more than one level.
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