Games Done Quick が毎年恒例のゲームマラソンで $260 万ドルを癌予防財団に寄付
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バージニア州アレクサンドリア – In the early hours of Sunday morning, January 15, Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ)—an annual livestreamed video game marathon organized by Games Done Quick—concluded their week-long event and announced a fundraising total of $2.6 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
For its third year in a virtual format, all-star gamers from around the world met online to speedrun—play as fast as possible—their favorite games. Tens of thousands tuned in from across the U.S. and around the world to watch the “best of the best” take on their favorite games. All games were played live beginning on January 8 until the event’s conclusion on January 15.
The gaming community showed their support for cancer prevention and early detection efforts while watching the stream on the official Games Done Quick Twitch channel by donating to the Prevent Cancer Foundation throughout the week. Nearly 40,000 donations were made from more than 21,000 individual donors.
During this year’s event, gamers also celebrated the overwhelming achievements of Games Done Quick founder Mike Uyama. Uyama, who started the organization in his mother’s basement in 2010. He has grown Games Done Quick into a thriving organization that has raised more than $41 million for charities, including the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
From left to right: Amy Sokal, Managing Director, Finance and Administration, at the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Mike Uyama, and Jody Hoyos
“We are in awe of Mike’s commitment to making the world a better place through gaming. His vision has inspired hundreds of thousands of people and raised millions of dollars for cancer prevention and early detection,” said Jody Hoyos, CEO of the Prevent Cancer Foundation. “Our vision is a world where cancer is preventable, detectable and beatable for all, and nobody has inspired us more than Games Done Quick to believe that all things are beatable.”
In over a decade of supporting the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Games Done Quick has helped fund research, technology, cancer prevention and early detection education and outreach, and community grants both in the U.S. and abroad. Earlier this week, the Prevent Cancer Foundation announced funding for cancer prevention and early detection projects in Haiti and Kenya—made possible by AGDQ—through its global grants program.
To learn more about AGDQ’s impact on the Prevent Cancer Foundation, visit www.preventcancer.org/agdq.
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がん予防財団について®
がん予防財団® は 唯一の米国-ベース 非営利団体 専ら ひたむきな に 癌 予防と早期 検出. 研究、教育を通じて、 アウトリーチ およびアドボカシー, 私たちは、数え切れないほど多くの人々ががんの診断を回避したり、早期にがんを発見して治療を成功させるのを支援してきました。 私たちの原動力は がんが予防できる世界のビジョン 検出可能 そして打ち負かすことができる すべてのために.
財団は、2035年までに癌による死亡者数を40%減らすという課題に取り組むために立ち上がっています。これを達成するために、 私たちは がんを早期に発見し、進歩させるための革新的な技術に$20百万を投資することを約束 マルチがん検診、がん検診とワクチン接種へのアクセスを拡大するために$1000万 医学的に 十分なサービスを受けていないコミュニティを支援し、検査とワクチン接種の選択肢について一般の人々を啓蒙するために$1000万ドルを支出します。
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