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Child’s Play announced today the charity received $3,512,345 in donations for 2011, beating the previous record of $2.2 million that was set from the prior year. The goal for 2012 is to reach $3.5 million again, a goal it should be able to hit if gamers keep giving at the same exponential rate they have been for nearly a decade.
Child’s Play was originally founded in 2003, when the charity first sent a truck of toys to Seattle Children’s Hospital. The Charity now supports over 80 hospitals worldwide, with events such as a charity gala, and other fund-raisers such as Dessert Bus helping to raise the money. At the recent charity gala, which helped raise $351,000 for the group that donates toys, games and cash to hospitalized children — auctioned off a rather sweet life-sized (but non-functional) Half-Life Gravity Gun.
