Looking for a company or group that supports gaming in education or family building

[sloejack]

It took me a couple of days but I finally found a way to pay tribute to the man. For anyone that's interested, I created a shirt that features a poem I wrote and a picture of all of the books by Gygax that I had used when I first started playing, and that were coincidently passed down to me by my mother who introduced me to the game.

If anyone knows of one, I'm looking for a company or group that promotes gaming in education or as part of building stronger families to donate any proceeds to. If you know of one please point me in their direction.

If you're interested in the shirt, you can see it here.
Light text on Dark shirt
Dark text on Light shirt

 

[sloejack]

For what it's worth, I sent the following to Mayfair since they're the only company I could find using a google search that had any documented association with using board games as teaching tools.

Hello,

I noticed at this past Gen Con that Mayfair was promoting their
association with getting games into the classrooms. I was wondering
if there was any way to contribute towards that effort monitarily?

To make a long story short, I love games and that joy came from my
mother getting me involved in them when I was young. A lot of what
I've learned with regards to problem solving, creativity, negotiating,
critical thinking, and generally a lot of who I am today came from the
fact that I got to play and was encouraged to play games growing up.
Aside from the traditional board and card games my first
non-mainstream game was AD&D introduced to me by my mother. With the
passing of Gary Gygax I created a tribute shirt and in the fond hope
that there are others that feel the way I do, I'm looking for some
company or group to donate the proceeds to so they can light that
spark of imagination and thinking in others.

So, I'm not sure to what level your company promotes that type of
agenda, but as I mentioned I recalled you guys promoting something
related to school as Gen Con and wanted to see if there was a
possibility to contribute to that effort.​

 

[Umbran]

You might want to look to the Game Manufacturers Association (aka GAMA)

http://www.gama.org/resources-and-aid/games-in-education

 

[sloejack]

You might want to look to the Game Manufacturers Association (aka GAMA)

http://www.gama.org/resources-and-aid/games-in-education

Thanks for the link, I'll hit up some of those folks too.

 

[Valicor]

Playroom Games

You should looking a company called Playroom games. They specialize in educational games for elementary schools.

http://www.playrooment.com/