A first pilot needs three things: money, people, and a room.
We're a new organization in our launch year. Below is exactly what we need, what state each channel is actually in, and what we can't accept yet.
Fund the first pilot
Early giving is unglamorous and decisive: it buys the curriculum design, hardware, insurance, and measurement that make a second program fundable by anyone else.
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We are not accepting donations through this website. Our nonprofit bank account and payment processor are not yet in place, and we won't take money we can't yet acknowledge and receipt properly.
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If you would like to make a founding gift now, or discuss a multi-year commitment, contact us directly and we'll walk you through where things stand.
What your support would fund
- Curriculum design — the session plans, objectives, and debrief guides that make play into learning.
- Equipment and licenses — consoles, controllers, and game licenses for a partner site that doesn't have them.
- Facilitator training — so a site can eventually run sessions without us in the room.
- Insurance and compliance — general and D&O liability coverage, which most school and library partners require before we set foot in the building.
- Outcomes measurement — the pre/post instruments and analysis that turn a pilot into evidence.
Lend your time or your expertise
A pilot-stage nonprofit needs a small number of people doing specific things well, rather than a general volunteer pool. These are the roles we're actually recruiting for.
Session facilitators
Run a session with a group: set the challenge, keep the room moving, lead the debrief. Comfort with games helps; comfort with people matters more. Working with youth or older adults requires a background check.
Curriculum contributors
Educators, instructional designers, and game designers who can help turn a game's systems into an actual lesson plan with objectives and assessment.
Board & advisory roles
We are seating a founding Board of Directors and want governance, finance, education, and games-industry experience on it. This is real fiduciary work, not a title.
Technical setup
Help a senior center or library get hardware working, networked, and safely stored — a genuinely common blocker for sites that want to say yes.
Evaluation & research
Help design the pre/post instruments and analyze results, so our first pilot produces evidence a funder or a researcher would accept.
Pro bono professional help
Nonprofit legal review, accounting and bookkeeping setup, and graphic design — the site you're reading uses a placeholder logo, and we know it.
Host a program, or make one possible
Our programs run inside institutions that already hold their community's trust. We bring the curriculum, the facilitation, and the equipment; a partner brings the room and the people.
Schools
Host a Play Tank after-school club. We supply the session plans, trained facilitators, and equipment; you supply the space and the students. We'll work within your district's technology, safety, and volunteer-screening requirements — and we expect to be asked about all three.
Public libraries
A library branch is an ideal pilot site: existing youth and adult programming, community trust, and a mandate for digital literacy. We can run a club, a one-off workshop, or a school-break intensive in a meeting room.
Senior centers & residential communities
Host Silver Gamers mornings. We handle equipment setup and support so your staff aren't left troubleshooting a console, and we design sessions around accessibility and conversation, not competition.
Workforce & adult education centers
Add Systems & Strategy bootcamps to your offering for job seekers and career changers, with an output participants can actually put in front of an employer.
Game studios & publishers
CSR and social-impact teams: we're looking for game licenses and hardware, employee volunteer facilitators, curriculum input from people who design learning curves professionally, and program funding. We're a natural fit for a studio that wants its social-impact work to be about what games are good at.
Funders & foundations
We are a launch-stage organization with a defined pilot, a measurement plan, and no track record yet — which is exactly the risk seed and capacity-building funders exist to take. Our case for support is available on request.
[Partner list coming soon]
We have no partnerships to announce yet, and we're not going to imply otherwise. No partner logos, no "trusted by" wall, no letters of intent presented as commitments. When a pilot site signs an MOU and agrees to be named, it will appear here.
Tell one person who runs a room full of people.
A librarian, a teacher, an activities director at a senior center, a workforce program manager. At this stage, an introduction to the right site is worth as much to us as a check.