DDR-A-Thon 8 - Friday/Saturday April 16-17 - Bloomington, IN

[MonMotha]

I figured this is at least reasonably relevant, and I'm not beneath pushing a charity event

DDR-A-Thon is an event where a few arcade games (originally just Dance Dance Revolution but now also including Pump It Up and, this year, pop'n music) are set up in a very visible, public area to create a stir in the name of Riley Hospital for Children.  This is the 8th iteration of the event.  It will be during all mall hours (10-9) at College Mall in Bloomington, IN.  Thanks to our generous arcade sponsor Great X Scape for donating the use of the DDR and PIU machines.

If you can attend, great!  You can play all the Dance Dance Revolution Supernova, Pump It Up: 2010 Fiesta, and pop'n music 8 you want for a $10 donation to Riley.  We look forward to seeing you there!  T-Shirts are also available, and several activities including exhibitions and variety events will occur throughout.

If you can't attend and wish to help out a great cause, you can make a donation online (that's a link, if you missed it).  If you mention me (Brandon aka MonMotha) in your comments, your donation will be added to my fundraising total (I'd appreciate it), but you don't have to.  You can also donate by text message as follows:

Text RILEY to 85944 to make a $5 donation that will automatically be added to your cell phone bill.

(Mandatory Legalese for the text message thing) A one-time donation of $5 will be added to your mobile phone bill or deducted from your prepaid balance. Messaging and Data Rate May apply. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. Service is available on most carriers. Donations are collected for the benefit of Riley Children’s Foundation by the Mobile Giving Foundation and subject to terms found at http://www.hmgf.org/t. You can unsubscribe at any time by replying STOP to short code 85944. Reply HELP to 85944 for help. Privacy Policy: http://mobilegiving.org/privacy/Default.aspx


All donations go straight to Riley.  There are NO cuts taken from donations to cover organization costs or similar.

Any support (monetary or otherwise) is greatly appreciated for this event using arcade games to help out a good cause.

More information at IndyDDR or on Facebook.

[Hoopz]

 

I'll donate tomorrow.  Thanks for doing this.

[MonMotha]

For those interested, the event has ended, and we raised just over $2900 between pre-event, online, and on-site donations.  This does not yet include any donations we received via text message.  This is our second best year ever (with last year's DDR-A-Thon 7 raising a whopping $4021.63).  I'd say that's not too shabby.

It's not too late to make a donation via the firstgiving website linked in the first post if you're still interested.

Pictures are available at http://www.indyddr.com/photos/ if you'd like to have a look.

Thanks for the support!