The Get-Well Gamers Foundaiton is dedicated to providing hospitalized children with video games. Studies have shown that playing video games is one of the best ways for patients to dull their pain receptors and shortens the length of their hospital stays, so our goal is to make sure children at hospitals across the U.S. have videogames available to them. We provide systems, games, and handhelds to any hospital that needs them.

The Get-Well Gamers Foundation was founded in the fall of 2001, incorporated in 2003, and recognized as 501(c)(3)-certified by the IRS in 2005. It was conceived of when the company's founder and a few of his then-classmates were talking about what a pleasant distraction games were when one was sick, and the idea developed that someone should supply video games to hospitals that don't have any.

The Foundation is headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, though we have members and Network Hospitals all across the United States.

The Foundation works with dozens of hospitals across the United States, from free clinics to private hospitals, providing free console and PC games and systems to thousands of patients each year. To see which Foundation hospitals are in your area, check our Network Page.

The Get-Well Gamers Foundation receives the majority of its inventory through private donations from gamers like you. Without your help, we would not be able to service as many hospitals as we do, nor would we be able to stock them as well. It is the much-used and loved consoles in the backs of closets or over televisions that keep the gears of the Foundation's donation machine turning.

The Foundation is always looking for three kinds of donations:

Information Donation: Many of the hospitals in our network were pointed out to us by gamers who had been or knew someone who had been hospitalized in a facility near them. All we need to begin relations with a hospital is the hospital's name, address, and phone number. Once we have that, we can speak to the people needed to set them up in our donation network.

Equipment Donation: The Foundation accepts all kinds of video game systems and games, anything from 16-bit generations (1989 on) to the newest cutting-edge systems like the XBox 360 and Nintendo DS. Scratched or damages games can be repaired, but please send only working hardware. And partial donations are encouraged as well; we've got systems without games and games without systems. Controllers, wires, everything is welcome, and we'll even help pay for the shipping if you need it.

Monetary Donation: If you want to donate but don't have any video games, monetary donations go toward shipping costs, replacement parts, and filling in inventory gaps when necessary. Donations can either be mailed or made electronically through the Network for Good.

Please make any donations out to:

You can contact the Foundation through post, phone, or e-mail via our Contact Page.

The best thing anyone can do for the Foundation is tell people about us. The more people know about our mission to ease the pains of hospitalized children, the more good we'll be able to do. Tell your school paper or company newsletter, mention it on the chat rooms and message boards you frequent, bring it up to your friends. The Get-Well Gamers Foundation lives on the support of people like you.