Support Akron Children’s Hospital this weekend during TABLETOP APPRECIATION WEEKEND!

Extra Life unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Throughout the month of August, Extra Life has been celebrating #ExtraLifeTabletop, with the biggest celebration taking place during the annual Tabletop Weekend (THIS weekend), August 18-20, 2023. That starts tomorrow! As a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, Akron Children’s Hospital benefits from incredible programs like this that help raise funds to continue providing high quality and compassionate care to our kids.

Extra Life truly puts the FUN in fundraising by following these steps:

1. Sign up for Extra Life
2. Fundraise and recruit a team to join you
3. Play games to CHANGE KIDS’ HEALTH AND CHANGE THE FUTURE!

Are you wondering how to fundraise by playing board games? Extra Life has the answers.

Whether with family/friends, your co-workers, or in the community at large, you can organize a game night (or convert your established game nights) to an Extra Life fundraising event in August (or any month). The important thing is to set the expectation that this game night is special because you’ll be raising funds for kids in your community (in our case, Akron Children’s) through Extra Life. Here are some ways that you can maximize your fundraising totals: 

1. Entry Fee/Cover Charge: Ask for an entry fee to play tonight. You can set up multiple game stations or provide a variety of games to cater to different interests.
2. Tournament Style: Structure a bracket as a special side event within your game night. Card games make great tournament games (Skip-Bo, Speed, Uno All Wilds, Magic: The Gathering, etc.) Offer prizes for winners and runners-up to attract more participants.
3. Re-Roll: Golf tournaments raise a lot of funds through mulligans, where someone can make a donation in order to take another shot if they didn’t like the shot they just made. Apply this principle to dice rolling and let your players donate in order to roll again.
4. Alter the Game Rules: Playing Monopoly and trying to get out of jail? Donate! Think of creative ways to spice up games and create fun ways to collect donations.
5. Donations for Losing: Get everyone to agree that the loser of each game has to make a donation to the team. Make it fun! Celebrate when they donate and encourage sympathizers to join them in donating.
6. Silent Auction: Ask local businesses to donate items for a silent auction. Everyone can place their bids throughout the night and the winner donates to the team in order to receive their prize. Be sure to send thank you notes and promote the businesses that donate items. Tag them on social media.

Extra Life Akron Guild has raised over +$8K YTD in 2023 for our kids. What are you waiting for? KIDS CAN’T WAIT!