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So this is the second year that I Need Diverse Games has been part of the GDC Scholarship program! We got 25 all access passes to the Game Developer Conference February 27 – March 3, 2017 in San Francisco, US.

While we’re ecstatic to be a part of this program, we are a small organization that cannot give monetary support to our All Access Pass recipients to travel to and from the conference.  Ideally we’d like to offer $500 – $1000 per recipient travel stipends to ease the cost burden going to San Francisco for a week long conference will entail.

All funds raised will go to our recipients based upon need stated on the scholarship application. We’re doing this fundraiser since we don’t yet have sponsorships for our organization and don’t want pass recipients to miss out if travel funding is a deal breaker.

So we humbly ask you to help us to help our community by making sure all of our recipients get a chance to attend the Game Developers Conference. We’ve added a bit of a cushion to account for fees that GoFundMe will take out to process the funding etc. We’re now a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation, but we’re still growing.

As of today we’ve hit $2,500 out of a $20,000 goal to assist our scholars. We’ll only be able to help a couple folks out of the 25 who have been offered an All Access pass to the conference.

We must close this on 15 December by 11:59pm CST to have time to process funds, determine who will get funding out of what is left after Go Fund Me takes their fees.  So please help our scholars attend a great week of professional development next year!

DONATE NOW

If you can’t spare anything, please share this around today and tomorrow.

Thank you!

Tanya DePass & the 2017 GDC Scholarship Review Committee

 

 

Published by cypheroftyr

Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, which is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. I Need Diverse Games serves the community by supporting marginalized developers attend the Game Developer Conference by participating in the GDC Scholarship program, helps assist attendance at other industry events, and is seeking partnership with organizations and initiatives. Tanya is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She founded and was the EIC of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast where games culture was discussed and viewed through a lense of feminism, intersectionality and diversity. Now she’s a co-host on Spawn on Me Podcast. Along with all of that, she’s the Programming Coordinator for OrcaCon, she often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at multiple conventions throughout the year. Her writing about games and games critique appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Wiscon Chronicles, Vice Gaming, Paste Games, Mic, and other publications.

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