A child in a hospital playroom, immersed in a VR game with controllers raised — joy, not pity

The Power of Play

Right now, a kid in the hospital just picked up a controller — and for a few minutes, gets to be a kid again.

Play isn't a distraction. It's medicine. GameChanger built the only networked game system in the world's hospitals — because our co-founder Taylor survived childhood cancer with a controller in his hand. Hope Lives Here.

25k+

Kids reached

250+

Hospitals

Continents

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Select your class — every player matters

Choose your player.

There's no single way to help a kid in a hospital bed. Pick the one that's you — each opens a different door.

Player 1 I want to help a kid today Send play to a bedside in 10 seconds — $25 puts a stack of games in a kid's hands. Enter ▶ Patron I can make a major gift A conversation with the founders, impact at scale, and your name on a hospital game room. Enter ▶ Studio We make games or hardware Turn codes, games & consoles into joy — the $18.4M lifeblood of this charity. Enter ▶ Partner My company wants to partner Reach 3.5B gamers doing measurable good — sponsorship, CSR & employee matching. Enter ▶ Player 2 I want to join the crew Player 2 has entered — Discord, skills-based quests, and a stream-fundraiser kit. Enter ▶

The evidence

Play is the medicine.

Not a nice extra. A clinically-backed way to ease what kids go through in the hospital — and the hospitals say it themselves.

Cochrane · Birnie 2018

5,550

children across 59 trials: the gold standard of medical evidence found distraction — including games and play — is the best-supported way to ease the pain and distress of needle procedures.

Birnie et al., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2018)

Anesthesia & Analgesia · 2019

studies of game-based and virtual-reality distraction found large reductions in children's pain and anxiety during medical procedures.

Eijlers et al., Anesthesia & Analgesia (2019)

American Academy of Pediatrics

AAP

The American Academy of Pediatrics calls play essential to healthy development — and urges doctors to "prescribe" it.

American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics (2018)

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The world's only networked Xbox hospital system.

Plus in-room consoles, VR, hospital game rooms, 3D printing and comfort gifts — live in 250+ hospitals on five continents. We don't hand out brochures. We deliver joy to a bedside.

"Thanks to GameChanger, we created what we believe is the world's most advanced safe gaming network in any hospital — serving over 350 kids a day."

— Katy Welkie, CEO, Primary Children's Hospital

A young hospital patient and his dad sharing a VR headset in a hospital game room

Player 1 — help a kid today

Power up a kid.

Every amount buys a specific moment of joy. Tap a card — no guessing where your money goes.

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The Continue Club.

Becoming a monthly GameChanger is the single biggest thing you can do for kids in hospitals — steady support means a console is always ready when a new kid checks in.

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Cancel anytime. One-time is always the default — monthly is opt-in.

Member A pixel badge + your name on the donor wall

Member First look at the documentary & behind-the-scenes

Member Quarterly "rooms you powered" impact report

The industry already plays for good

For companies.

The gaming world built this with us — $18.4M in donated games, hardware and codes. There are two ways your company joins.

Sponsor in-kind

Donate games, hardware & codes

The lifeblood. Your titles, consoles and digital codes go straight to a bedside through the world's only networked hospital game system. Fair-market-value tax receipt, full distribution proof, co-marketing upside.

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Sponsor in cash

Sponsor & partner

Reach 3.5B gamers through a cause they love. Cause-marketing, CSR/ESG reporting, employee engagement and Benevity matching, event & campaign underwriting — with measurable impact across 250+ hospitals.

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Hope Lives Here

Why we exist

"For my son Taylor, gaming wasn't entertainment — it was a lifeline through five years of cancer treatment. We built GameChanger to give that same lifeline to every kid in a hospital bed."

— Jim Carol, Founder · Taylor survived, and helps lead GameChanger today

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The record

Where your money goes.

25,000+

Kids reached through play

250+

Children's hospitals served

96%

of every dollar to the mission

2026 California Nonprofit of the Year — Senate District 36

Charity Navigator — 3/4 stars, 82%

501(c)(3) — EIN 26-3438815

Player 2 has entered the game

GameChanger runs on its community — Reddit, Discord, streamers and gamers who believe every kid deserves to play. Bring design, writing, tech, community skills — or run a stream fundraiser. There's a place for you here.

Design Writing Tech Community Stream fundraisers — MineChanger · Gaming for Good

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