that Metroidvania guy
The marathon planning staff has been looking at potential SGDQ charities for a little while now, and after contacting several of them we have narrowed down a list of four worthy candidates. The final decision will need to be made soon, but it is important that this choice is made with community input. I will lay out some details about the four charities still on the table and will attempt to do so in a completely unbiased manner. I welcome everyone to openly discuss which charity they feel is the best option or to ask questions about each one that we can either answer immediately or ask directly to the organizations during my further correspondence with them next week.
There will be no poll, so you will at least need to post your choice if you have no other input. I will keep this thread running until the end of next week so that we can begin correspondence with our SGDQ beneficiary by no later than April 8th. Obviously, you shouldn't do anything stupid like make extra accounts or make extra posts as a guest to try and increase the tally in favor of any one charity. We will catch this, ignore your posts, and punish you appropriately. Also remember that this is not a thread to suggest charities outside of the choices given; there are several great causes to support out there, but we have worked hard to present the options we felt would best appeal to our community for the upcoming event and need to focus specifically on these now.
Here are the choices:
Organization for Autism Research
This is a group dedicated to funding research studies for autism and applying that research to benefiting those both directly and indirectly affected by it. They have been the beneficiary of SGDQ for the last two years and have had SDA choose which studies to put the donations toward after the marathons. They are also by far the smallest charity out of the four options and theoretically would benefit the most from a major fundraiser.
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
This is a large international organization working in nearly 70 countries and providing medical aid to those most in need regardless of their race, religion, or political affiliation. Whenever disaster strikes somewhere, whether it be because of war, an epidemic, a natural cause, or a number of other reasons, medical staff is mobilized to help with the situation immediately. There is a constant need for groups like this to be around, and money is always going directly into action.
amfAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research)
This is a charity dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research. HIV is one of the most dangerous health threats in existence and unfortunately there seems to be no reliable cure/vaccine in sight as of yet. There is an extremely high need for research to continue being done in this field so that there can be hope one day for such a treatment to exist. Just recently there have been some breakthroughs in understanding the virus (see this article), so now is as good a time as any to be putting money towards the cause!
Habitat for Humanity
This is a large international organization that makes use of volunteer labor and donations of money/materials to build and repair homes for people. This is done both as a response to disasters and simply to help fight poverty throughout the world. Homes are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. Needless to say, there is always a need for this type of service to be done, especially with a global housing crisis taking place. This is another charity choice where money is constantly being put into action immediately.
There will be no poll, so you will at least need to post your choice if you have no other input. I will keep this thread running until the end of next week so that we can begin correspondence with our SGDQ beneficiary by no later than April 8th. Obviously, you shouldn't do anything stupid like make extra accounts or make extra posts as a guest to try and increase the tally in favor of any one charity. We will catch this, ignore your posts, and punish you appropriately. Also remember that this is not a thread to suggest charities outside of the choices given; there are several great causes to support out there, but we have worked hard to present the options we felt would best appeal to our community for the upcoming event and need to focus specifically on these now.
Here are the choices:
Organization for Autism Research
This is a group dedicated to funding research studies for autism and applying that research to benefiting those both directly and indirectly affected by it. They have been the beneficiary of SGDQ for the last two years and have had SDA choose which studies to put the donations toward after the marathons. They are also by far the smallest charity out of the four options and theoretically would benefit the most from a major fundraiser.
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
This is a large international organization working in nearly 70 countries and providing medical aid to those most in need regardless of their race, religion, or political affiliation. Whenever disaster strikes somewhere, whether it be because of war, an epidemic, a natural cause, or a number of other reasons, medical staff is mobilized to help with the situation immediately. There is a constant need for groups like this to be around, and money is always going directly into action.
amfAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research)
This is a charity dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research. HIV is one of the most dangerous health threats in existence and unfortunately there seems to be no reliable cure/vaccine in sight as of yet. There is an extremely high need for research to continue being done in this field so that there can be hope one day for such a treatment to exist. Just recently there have been some breakthroughs in understanding the virus (see this article), so now is as good a time as any to be putting money towards the cause!
Habitat for Humanity
This is a large international organization that makes use of volunteer labor and donations of money/materials to build and repair homes for people. This is done both as a response to disasters and simply to help fight poverty throughout the world. Homes are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. Needless to say, there is always a need for this type of service to be done, especially with a global housing crisis taking place. This is another charity choice where money is constantly being put into action immediately.
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