Game for Charity Launch Online Charity Game Tournament
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National MS Society Georgia Chapter and the MS Society Georgia Chapter launches online gaming tournament to raise $50,000 and giveaway over $5,000 in prizes.
ATLANTA (December 4, 2007) – The MS Society Georgia Chapter and Rezilio, an Atlanta-based game developer launches the worlds first not-for-profit casual game tournament. 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. ‘Tis the season for giving and the National MS Society Georgia Chapter needs your help to end the devastating effects of MS. Join the movement by playing a five-minute puzzle game.
To participate in the MS “Play for Cure” event: 1) Go to www.GameforCharity.com/MS 2) Donate $15 and receive three game play opportunities 3) Play a five-minute puzzle game and potentially win over $5,000 in prizes All donations are tax-deductible and 100 percent of all proceeds go to charity.
“Game For Charity radically changes the way charitable organizations can leverage the internet to raise funds”, says Roy Rangel, president of the National MS Society’s Georgia Chapter.
“Typically by the time a charity hosts a fundraiser, such as a golf tournament, it costs 85 cents per every dollar donated, whereas, Game for Charity and an online game tournament only costs 20 cents per dollar, allowing 80 percent of the donation to go directly to the charity.” “It is a pleasure and honor to partner with the MS Society”, says Andrew Wells, CEO and co-founder of Game for 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 innovative charitable organizations with the tools to marry the hyper-growth of online charitable giving with the most popular activity on the web, online games.
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 skilled gaming technology and casual game development through the corporate office of Rezilio http://www.rezilio.com.
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