“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”- Winston Churchill

When my Editor-in-Chief asked me to put together this post, I was already aware of Calvin Ayre’s work, some of the industry events that support charities and a handful of corporate or personal initiatives through my interviews and every day conversations.  It wasn’t until I started looking for more examples of charity work that I realized just how much our industry is doing.

My first thought after uncovering such a wealth of examples was Jan Jones Blackhurt’s statement during WGES that we need to do a better job of sharing our charitable work as an industry, from a recruitment, internal and external reputation perspective.  The gaming industry still struggles with a bad reputation, why not educate others on the good work we are doing for those in need?

“The gaming industry has a valuable story to tell, we just don’t know how to tell the story”, Jones-Blackhurst said.