In the United States June is National LGBTQi+ Pride month. This month we celebrate our history and recommit to not only celebrating that history, but making strides forward in equality for all. It is because of this that we have chosen the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as our charity to […]
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Friends, we are coming together as a community to do our next charity marathon (a little early I know) to raise funds for the people of Puerto Rico after the devastation that they suffered during Hurricane Maria. We will be streaming in shifts for 24 hours on Saturday, October 7, […]
On Saturday, August 12, 2017 we are running our seventh Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen The Trevor Project as our charity and we are co-hosting with Girl Tribe Gaming so that we can do even more gaming and even more good. You could say that we have […]
On Saturday, October 8, 2016 we are hosting our fourth Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen Stop Soldier Suicide as our charity (link to donation portal below). Every day an average of 20+ veterans and 1 active duty soldier take their own lives. Because of the stigma […]
On Saturday, February 13, 2016 we are hosting our second Gaming for Good event. The Gaming Mammothon seeks to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF), which provides education and detection services for women across the country. Founded in 1991, the NBCF provides free and low-cost mammograms to […]
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? -Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, 1957. It only seems fitting that the 5th anniversary of Not Your Mama’s Gamer fell on the weekend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday celebration. While many folks around the […]
This weekend, several NYMG staffers (and friends!) are gearing up for the 2015 Extra Life marathon, a 24-hour frenzy of gaming for charity. We will be hosting streams from several of our members on the official NYMG Twitch channel, but below we have listed individual channels along with a preview […]
Since before the launch of NYMG many of us here have been using our gaming to raise money for various charities. With the annual drop in temperatures comes the annual Extra Life Marathon to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. This is going to be my 6th consecutive year […]
For five years Alex and I have been participating in the Extra Life marathon and raising money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in Indiana and Minnesota. And for me this year will be no different. I will beg for pledges and sit in a room for 24 hours playing some of […]
Alex and I are in the midst of the 24 hour gaming marathon to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network and Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. Every 6 hours we will take a quick break to record a video confessional with any fellow Purdue gamers who are participating and willing […]