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Totally
Games Launches Year Long Initiative to Assist Children in Foster
Care
“Over
the years, Totally Games has supported several worthy causes,”
said Lawrence Holland, Totally Games’ Creative Director, “but I
felt that both as a business owner and as an individual, I wanted us
to do more. However,
being a small business we are limited, so when it was suggested that
we focus our efforts on one issue to build awareness and raise funds
– I got excited. Every
quarter over the next year, Totally Games will select one charity to
highlight and to support in its efforts to improve the lives of
children in foster care. Totally
Games will donate 100% of its online sales commissions from sales
generated from its site as well as work to organize other special
fundraisers. Totally
Games will also be asking the gaming community to donate to these
charities directly.”
 “The
issue for this year -- Improving Life for Children in Foster Care,
is driven by the recent experiences of a co-worker here at Totally
Games who was a foster parent and later an adoptive parent of two
great kids,”
Holland
continued. “We have
all taken a personal interest in and supported him and his family
and in doing so learned what life is like for the 90,000 children
currently living in foster care in
California
. Over the next year we
expect to help educate the gaming public by telling the stories of
those children and young adults who have lived in foster care and
those still in the system looking for a permanent home.”
The
first charity we have chosen to highlight is The Ellen Seligman Fund
for The Center for the Vulnerable Child (
CVC
) at Children’s Hospital and
Research
Center
at
Oakland
. The Ellen Fund was
recently created in memory of Ellen Seligman, one of the first
members of the Center for the Vulnerable Child’s staff and one of
its strongest advocates. Ellen
and the entire
CVC
staff have worked tirelessly for over a decade to improve the lives
of children, often making a way to help them and their families
thrive despite enormous odds. The
CVC
is an interdisciplinary team dedicated to promoting the health and
social welfare of vulnerable or medically fragile children and their
families.
Fundraising:
1)
Donation of Online Sales Commissions (Amazon.com
/ CafePress.com
/ Chips
& Bits)
Totally
Games will be donating 100% of our online sales commission that we
receive from our internet partners whom we are
associates.
2)
Donations
Direct to our Chosen Charity
You
can make a donation to the Ellen Fund via Children's Hospital
Foundation's web site as well as learn about other ways to
contribute.
3)
Holiday Online Charitable Auction (Dec 5th -
15th)
Most
Items are on a time limited auction ending on December 15th and
have a minimum value set. We
have placed 22 unique pieces of memorabilia related to Totally
Games and our latest title Secret Weapons Over Normandy (SWON) up
for auction with 100% of the proceeds going to The Ellen Fund.
The
auction items can be found by searching on EBay.com for items
being sold by user: totally-games-charity-auction or by
following links from the Auction Page on
Totally Games’ web site.
More
Information on our Quarterly Charity:
Facts
about the Foster Care system:
- Approximately
over 500,000 children live in foster care during a given year
- Approximately
90,000 children are currently in foster care in
California
– the majority of them cannot
return home and need permanency
- Two
out of three children are reunited with their birth families
within two years
- Older
children – children over 9 – wait longest and are least
likely to be adopted
- Over
60% of the children waiting in foster care for permanency are
siblings
Additional
information can be found at:
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