IGN is raising money for two good causes as part of its Summer of Gaming digital games event. We’re using our programming to spotlight and drive donations to the World Health Organization COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, an organization dedicated to studying, tracking and combating the coronavirus pandemic; and The Bail Project, a nonprofit that pays bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence.
As part of our charitable initiative, donating allows you to be submitted for a chance to win various items, including swag like DOOM The Slayer wireless charging mousepad or a $30 IGN Store gift card; codes for games like Resident Evil 3; and even The Big Prize: a custom Summer of Gaming Xbox One X!
Find out more information at the donation destinations below and be sure to read our full contest rules and terms and conditions.
We’ll be promoting these fundraising efforts all throughout Summer of Gaming, and you can donate to the organizations by clicking on the links below.
World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
About the United Nations Foundation: “The UN Foundation brings together the ideas, people, and resources the UN needs to drive global progress and tackle urgent problems. As a close partner to the UN, our hallmark is to collaborate for lasting change and innovate against humanity’s greatest challenges. We bring an insider’s knowledge and outsider’s flexibility, we stay agile to get things done, and every day we act as if the world depends on it. Because it does.”
The Bail Project
About The Bail Project: “The Bail Project is a national nonprofit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system—one person at a time. We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty, and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration. Over the next few years, The Bail Project will open dozens of sites in high-need jurisdictions with the goal of paying bail for tens of thousands of low-income Americans, all while collecting stories and data that prove money bail is not necessary to ensure people return to court. We won’t stop until meaningful change is achieved and the presumption of innocence is no longer for sale.”
IGN’s Summer of Gaming Full Schedule
Summer of Gaming is a free digital event, airing from June 10 to June 25. The IGN experience will include over three weeks of exclusive programming and gameplay world premieres as well as charity live streams (IGN’s Celebrity Island Tours in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Speedrunner Countdown Challenge), Icon interviews, and three days of IGN Expo, a showcase for exclusive announcements and reveals from publishers. If you’re looking for the latest information on everything from Cyberpunk 2077 to the PS5 and Xbox Series X, this is the place to be.
IGN’s Summer of Gaming event will be available to watch on most major platforms. As it’s broadcasted live, we invite you to join us and participate by sending us your own reaction videos, voting on our live polls, and chiming in with your thoughts as we share exclusive reveals, trailers, gameplay demos, and developer interviews during the show, and chat about it before and after the show. Here is where you can watch IGN’s Summer of Gaming event livestream:
- IGN.com (homepage)
- IGN’s Facebook Channel
- IGN’s Twitter
- IGN’s Twitch Channel
- IGN’s Youtube Channel
- IGN’s TikTok
- IGN’s Mixer
- IGN’s iOS App
- IGN’s Android App
- IGN’s PlayStation 4 App
- IGN’s Xbox One App
- Roku
- IGN App for Android TV
- IGN for Amazon Fire TV
- Apple TV
- IGN 1 on Samsung TV Plus
Source: IGN.com Summer of Gaming: Donate to Support the World Health Organization and The Bail Project