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A child in a hospital playroom, immersed in a virtual-reality game with controllers in hand
The power of play

Right now, a kid in the hospital just picked up a controller — and got to feel like a kid again.

When you’re a child facing serious illness, a game isn’t just a distraction — it’s a few minutes of feeling like yourself again. GameChanger brings games and technology to kids in 250+ hospitals. You can help put one in their hands.

25,000+kids reached 250+hospitals 5continents
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Every amount buys a specific moment of joy.

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Kids facing serious illness deserve to play.

We’re not another teal kids’ charity. GameChanger built the world’s only networked Xbox hospital system — plus in-room consoles, hospital game rooms, VR, equine therapy, and comfort gifts. Our intervention isn’t a brochure. It’s joy, delivered to a bedside.

“Thanks to GameChanger, we created what we believe is the world’s most advanced safe gaming network in any hospital — serving over 350 kids a day.”

Katy Welkie · CEO, Primary Children’s Hospital

5,550children across 59 trials: a Cochrane review — the gold standard of medical evidence — found distraction, including games and play, is the best-supported way to ease the pain and distress of needle procedures.Birnie et al., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2018)
17studies of game-based and virtual-reality distraction found large reductions in children’s pain and anxiety during medical procedures.Eijlers et al., Anesthesia & Analgesia (2019)
AAPThe American Academy of Pediatrics calls play essential to healthy development — and urges doctors to “prescribe” it.American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics (2018)
A young hospital patient and his dad sharing a VR headset in a hospital game room
VR in the hospital game room
A toddler in a hospital bed receiving a tablet gaming device
A bedside tech gift
A young patient smiling with Hope the Monkey, a GameChanger comfort gift
Hope the Monkey
Jim Carol with the GameChanger team
Why we exist
“For my son Taylor, gaming wasn’t entertainment — it was a lifeline through five years of cancer treatment. We built GameChanger to give that same lifeline to every kid in a hospital bed.”

Jim Carol, Founder · Taylor survived, and helps lead GameChanger today

Where your money goes

The world’s only networked Xbox hospital system — run entirely by volunteers.

96¢ of every dollar reaches kids. That’s how an all-volunteer team, founded in 2007, puts games and consoles into 250+ hospitals on five continents — with zero salaries in the way.

25,000+
Kids reached through play
250+
Children’s hospitals served
5
Continents, one networked system
★ 2026 California Nonprofit of the Year 📄 501(c)(3) · EIN 26-3438815
For companies

Put your brand behind the world’s only networked Xbox hospital system.

Reach the 3.5-billion-strong gaming audience through a cause they love, engage your employees, and report real, measurable impact across 250+ children’s hospitals. The full partnership case — reach, tiers, and a real conversation — lives on one page.

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For families & friends

Everyone has a part in the power of play.

Whether your child is in the hospital, you want to give, or you’re ready to volunteer — here’s your way in.

The Continue Club

Press start once. Power play all year.

Becoming a monthly GameChanger is the single biggest thing you can do for kids in hospitals — steady support means a console is always ready when a new kid checks in. Cancel anytime.

Continue? ▶ — the club for people who keep the game going.