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Alabama Medical Directors Association Annual Meeting

Bungie Day is right around the corner on July 7th! I look forward to it every year because it’s a holiday that was created by our community and is a celebration of everything that our community represents. Life-long friendships have grown, marriages have been proposed, countless victories have been shared together, and crazy stories have been shared. There is no community like ours and I’m endlessly proud and grateful to be a part of it. 

 

What sets our community apart is the level of care we have for one another and the world around us. Time and time again, you have all stepped up to the plate to support incredible charitable causes from natural disaster relief to families experiencing medical crises, and everywhere in between. 

 

I am excited to announce today that for the very first time, we are inviting you to support the Bungie Foundation in our own work to make the world a better place through the iPads for Kids program!

 

Between now and July 14th, we are asking you to help us raise $77,000 by heading to our [donation page](https://thebungiefoundation.kindful.com "Donate to the Bungie Foundation"). By contributing, you will play a direct role in providing hospitalized children with age-appropriate and therapeutic entertainment for distraction, play, and a sense of normalcy while they’re facing some tough and scary illnesses. 
Donors who contribute $50 or more between 6/27-7/14 at 11:59pm PT will receive a unique redeemable code for the System of Peace Emblem! Exact distribution date will be announced to all donors after the fundraising event ends. 
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Together we can bring joy, laughter, and smiles to so many incredible kids!

 

Thank you for your support, 
Christine 
Sr. Foundation Manager

 

P.S. Look out for some exciting additions to the Bungie Store next week, complete with exclusive Bungie Foundation merchandise!

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Bungie Day Giving Campaign

The Bungie Foundation is proud to announce that we have partnered with eight children’s hospitals across the country to advance our mission of reducing distress and suffering in children through entertainment with our iPads for Kids Program. We’ll be giving a full run-down of where we stand with all hospitals in our year-end wrap up next month, but we’d like to take a moment to share with you what we’ve been focusing on this past month.!

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In late October, we took the trip from Seattle, WA to Dallas, TX to kick off our 30-day pilot of the iPads for Kids Program at Children’s [Health Dallas](https://www.childrens.com/). The team at Children’s Health has been a dream to work with as we prepared the many logistical components necessary to making the program operate with success. The installation of our first 24 iPads into Children’s Health’s Renal Unit was led by our very own Austin Schlichtman, iPads for Kids Program Specialist, and supported fully by the clinical team on the unit. Austin has led the technical logistics of every installation we’ve managed this past year and has gotten it down to a science. 

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Working with Christine Edwards, Sr. Foundation Manager, they were able to pre-plan every facet of the installation and map out their course of action before landing onsite at the hospital. CMCD’s amazing Project Manager coordinated the hospital’s IT, security, networking, and infection control teams to troubleshoot all tasks before the rollout. According to Austin, “Not only were we excited by the successful rollout!, but the nursing staff was quite excited themselves! Some of the nurses noted how happy and excited their patients looked when they received the iPads and how they quickly started to play games as soon as the devices were handed to them. The staff was very optimistic as it was their first time having this type of device installment and now they are very appreciative of the iPads for Kids Program.

 

Next up, our mission was accomplished all the way from New York City! We kicked off our pilot rollout at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children. We are so grateful for our partnership with them as they are unlike any other hospital we have supported to date. Christine says, “St. Mary’s provides incredibly experienced and compassionate long-term care for children with very complex medical conditions. The majority of children that are referred to St. Mary’s will spend their lives at the hospital or their long-term care facilities and have special needs and life-limiting conditions.” 

 

Because of their unique patient population, many children don’t have the strength to hold an iPad on their own. To solve this problem, we partnered with the Seattle-based company HatchMed to create custom wall-mounted tablet arms that met St. Mary’s requirements for their environment. One of HatchMed’s executives even joined us on our trip to the hospital to train St. Mary’s Building and Engineering team on how to install the arm. “The hospital’s clinical staff would walk by and would stop to admire what we were doing and were very interested in testing the tablet arm out. They expressed how excited they were that they iPads for Kids Program could provide for their unit’s specific needs,” says Austin. We look forward to deploying more iPads throughout the remaining units at St. Mary’s in the New Year!

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 iPads for Kids Program Launches in New York and Texas! 

Since 2013, the Bungie Foundation has been privileged to support Make-A-Wish® Alaska and Washington in funding all electronic items for their wishes. We absolutely love the creativity that wish kids have in coming up with their perfect wish. To date, we have helped support approximately 110 wishes!

 

These wishes have ranged from decked out sensory playrooms for kiddos with cognitive impairments, to fully customized gaming PCs for kids who want to connect with their friends or make a splash on the YouTube scene, to eye-controlled and voice-activated laptops for kids with a physical disability. 

 

Many of these wishes contain additional items that fall outside the scope of electronics. These items must be funded by Make-A-Wish, which requires significant fundraising efforts. This is the case for wish kid, Leighton.

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Leighton is a sports loving 15 year old from Eastern Washington. He used to love playing outside with friends until a rare heart condition required him to stop. He’s now wishing to have his basement converted into a game room so that he can continue to play with his friends in the digital space.

The Bungie Foundation has the electronics covered, but we need your help to fund the rest of his wish! Here’s a glimpse into what your dollars will help fund:


- $600 – New couch
- $500 – New carpet
- $300 – Paint and painting supplies
- $200 – New mini fridge for snacks 
- $100 – Media storage unit for movies and DVDs
- $75 – Framed posters of his favorite soccer player and team, Cristiano Ronaldo and the Barcelona soccer team, or his favorite TV Show, The Walking Dead
- $50 – Board games: Apples to Apples, Monopoly, Speak Out, and more!
- $25 – Snacks! He loves all candy, especially Sour Patch Kids!

For those with the means, please head to his fundraising page and support at $10 or more. Every dollar counts! If you have your eye on one of the bigger ticket items, consider going in on it with your friends or Destiny clanmates. Share Leighton’s crowdfunding site on your social media to spread the word. Any funds raised above the threshold for Leighton’s wish will support another kiddo with big dreams!
 
 
 
 Love, 
 
 
 
 The Bungie Foundation

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Help Bring a Make-A-Wish Kid's Dream to Life!

Every year, we don our tartans, heft some weapons, strike a pose, and go to war. As always, our enemies are the slings and arrows that come between the families of children seeking healthcare. You’re invited to become our ally in this fight, along with other warriors from the greater Seattle metropolitan area. 

Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the Men in Kilts fundraising competition raises funds for families staying at the Seattle Ronald McDonald House. Check out all the participants, and cast your vote for Team Bungie by donating $10 or more. Every $30 donated will pay for a family to stay at the House for one night. Head to the RMHC Donation Page to cast your votes by Friday, April 28! 

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Making the world a better place is its own reward, but we still have some keepsakes to help you raise awareness for Men in Kilts*

•	$50—The “7-7 Ad Infinitum” player emblem

•	$100—The prize above, plus a mailed postcard from Bungie’s Men in Kilts

•	$250—All prizes above, plus play Destiny with a Bungie Dev

•	$500—All prizes above, plus a digitally-delivered signed caricature of our Bungie Men in Kilts team, drawn by one of our kilted members themselves

•	$1000—Studio Tour of Bungie (transportation/lodging not included)

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*You will receive an email no later than Friday, May 5, regarding redemption of each reward.

 

We’re also excited to talk about the Fourth Annual Gauntlet Tabletop Tournament. In May, Team Bungie will compete against fifteen other local businesses to raise funds for Treehouse, a local organization that helps foster kids pursue their dreams and build for themselves a bright future. Your donations will embolden our team with Power Ups that will help them win the tournament. Head to our team’s Donation Page to commit your support on or before May 21.

We know you don’t need an incentive to support these causes, but we just can’t resist decorating the heroes from our community. The Gauntlet has its own backer rewards.*
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•	$50—The “Eye of Eternity” player emblem

•	$100—The prize above, plus a “Programmer Art” caricature of you (we can’t guarantee it’ll be good, but it’ill be funny!)

•	$250—All prizes above, plus play Destiny with a Bungie Dev**

•	$500—All prizes above, plus lunch with Team Bungie (transportation and lodging not included)

*You’ll receive an email no later than Friday, June 2 about the fulfillment of each reward.

**If you donate $250 separately to each of the Men in Kilts and Gauntlet fundraisers, you will be able to play Destiny twice with two different Bungie Devs!


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Mateo's Story

Through the iPads for Kids program, we’ve had the great opportunity to partner with children's hospitals across the country. When we developed the program, we wanted to meet pediatric patients where they are at, whether they are coming in for a routine procedure and will spend a couple of hours in the hospital or whether they are struggling with a serious complication such as cancer treatment or rehab following a serious injury. We want kids to feel like they can be themselves by engaging in play like they would if they were home. But some things just aren't normal when a patient is in the hospital. It's important to us that we bring as much normalcy and joy to them as possible while they are dealing with fear, pain, boredom, uncertainty, and isolation. The robust, age-appropriate content we can provide thorugh our program enables us to provide meaningful support for pediatric patients and families. 

It fills us with joy when we see kids like Mateo from Nationwide Children's Hospital, who has been able to utlize the power of play to help him recover from a serious injury, and with a big smile on his face. Mateo’s mom states, "It’s been good for Mateo because he has to manipulate his hands and the iPad has allowed him to increase his range of motion. It’s also a good distraction and keeps him busy.” Mateo said the Lego game is his favorite. 

We're so happy to help Mateo along his journey to recovery!

If you'd like to help more kids like Mateo, please make a donation today. <http://bung.ie/iPadsforKids20>

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