Athena Twin PMS
09-03-2008, 12:29 PM
PMS Clan Helps Raise $6000 for Child’s Play Charity
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September 1s1 2008, San Antonio, TX –Hundreds of gamers proved they can think about more then the release of Rock Band 2 by helping to raise $6,000 for Child’s Play Charity (http://www.childsplaycharity.org/) in PMS Clan’s Charity Raffle Event at NVISION 2008.
Child’s Play is a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 40 hospitals worldwide.
Pulling together almost $3000 from the gamer raffle contributions (in which an Alienware Area 51 was the main prize), and with the NVIDIA Foundation (http://www.nvidia.com/object/corporate_c ommunity.html)more then matching the contributions to bring the total to $6000, the event was a great success. “This brings our total non-profit fundraisers PMS Clan has had an active part to over $40,000 in the last couple of years,” states Amber Dalton, PMS Clan Leader, “PMS Clan and our members take great pride in our efforts to aid non-profits organizations.”
The raffle tickets sales took place at the GeForce LAN (http://www.nvision2008.com/Enthusiasts/g eforce-lan.cfm) at NVSION in the Girl Gamer Zone hosted by PMS Clan, and the PMS ladies also held an evening Pajama Rama event for attendees each night in effort to help drive raffle sales and to give away over $15,000 of product and giveaways to the attendees. A special thank you goes out to all the Raffle contributors including Alienware (http://alienware.com/), Patriot Memory (http://www.patriotmem.com), Plantronics (http://plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/international.jhtml?localePage=locale.jhtml), NVIDIA (http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html), The ECA (http://www.theeca.com), and Pro Gamer (http://www.progamer.net). An extra special thanks goes out to the NVIDA Foundation who matched all the gamer donations by more then 100%!
About PMS Clan: PMS Clan (Pandora's Mighty Soldiers) is the world's largest multi-platform online female gaming clan. Formed in 2002, their mission is to provide a fun, competitive and positive environment for female gamers. With over 2,000 members across multiple platforms and five continents, PMS Clan and its male counterpart clan, H2O Clan, work hard to promote a more diversified gaming landscape. For more information please visit www.pmsclan.com.
About Child's Play: Child's Play is a non-profit organization begun in 2003 by Gabe and Tycho, the creators of the Penny Arcade comic strip, as a way to help sick children and show the world the softer side of people who play videogames. Through the generosity of gamers and the videogame industry, Child's Play has raised over a million dollars in toys, games and cash for sick children through an ongoing online toy drive and annual charity auction. For more information please go to www.childsplaycharity.org.
About NVIDIA Foundation: The NVIDIA Foundation is an employee-led initiative that aims to empower communities and have a lasting impact on organizations, through transformative partnerships, employee engagement, collaboration with NVIDIA’s ecosystem of customers and partners and creating and sharing Best Practices.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b365/AthenaTwin/Childsplay.jpg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 1s1 2008, San Antonio, TX –Hundreds of gamers proved they can think about more then the release of Rock Band 2 by helping to raise $6,000 for Child’s Play Charity (http://www.childsplaycharity.org/) in PMS Clan’s Charity Raffle Event at NVISION 2008.
Child’s Play is a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 40 hospitals worldwide.
Pulling together almost $3000 from the gamer raffle contributions (in which an Alienware Area 51 was the main prize), and with the NVIDIA Foundation (http://www.nvidia.com/object/corporate_c ommunity.html)more then matching the contributions to bring the total to $6000, the event was a great success. “This brings our total non-profit fundraisers PMS Clan has had an active part to over $40,000 in the last couple of years,” states Amber Dalton, PMS Clan Leader, “PMS Clan and our members take great pride in our efforts to aid non-profits organizations.”
The raffle tickets sales took place at the GeForce LAN (http://www.nvision2008.com/Enthusiasts/g eforce-lan.cfm) at NVSION in the Girl Gamer Zone hosted by PMS Clan, and the PMS ladies also held an evening Pajama Rama event for attendees each night in effort to help drive raffle sales and to give away over $15,000 of product and giveaways to the attendees. A special thank you goes out to all the Raffle contributors including Alienware (http://alienware.com/), Patriot Memory (http://www.patriotmem.com), Plantronics (http://plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/international.jhtml?localePage=locale.jhtml), NVIDIA (http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html), The ECA (http://www.theeca.com), and Pro Gamer (http://www.progamer.net). An extra special thanks goes out to the NVIDA Foundation who matched all the gamer donations by more then 100%!
About PMS Clan: PMS Clan (Pandora's Mighty Soldiers) is the world's largest multi-platform online female gaming clan. Formed in 2002, their mission is to provide a fun, competitive and positive environment for female gamers. With over 2,000 members across multiple platforms and five continents, PMS Clan and its male counterpart clan, H2O Clan, work hard to promote a more diversified gaming landscape. For more information please visit www.pmsclan.com.
About Child's Play: Child's Play is a non-profit organization begun in 2003 by Gabe and Tycho, the creators of the Penny Arcade comic strip, as a way to help sick children and show the world the softer side of people who play videogames. Through the generosity of gamers and the videogame industry, Child's Play has raised over a million dollars in toys, games and cash for sick children through an ongoing online toy drive and annual charity auction. For more information please go to www.childsplaycharity.org.
About NVIDIA Foundation: The NVIDIA Foundation is an employee-led initiative that aims to empower communities and have a lasting impact on organizations, through transformative partnerships, employee engagement, collaboration with NVIDIA’s ecosystem of customers and partners and creating and sharing Best Practices.