Press & media

Press kit & media resources.

Writing about GameChanger? Everything you need is here — the org at a glance, founder bios, a verified-fact sheet with sources, logos, and a media contact. We're glad to help you tell the story of kids who get to be kids again, even in the hospital.

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The org at a glance

The facts, fast.

A category-of-one charity: the world's only networked Xbox hospital system, run entirely by volunteers.

25k+

Kids reached

250+

Hospitals

Continents

Founded2007
Tax status501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN 26-3438815
TeamAll-volunteer — zero employees
Efficiency96% of every dollar to the mission
Kids reached25,000+
Hospitals served250+ on five continents
Category of oneWorld's only networked Xbox hospital system
In-kind lifeblood$18.4M in donated games, hardware & codes
Recognition2026 California Nonprofit of the Year (Senate District 36)
Always freeEvery program is free to patients & families

Founder bios

The people behind the controller.

A father and his son — one who built the charity, one who lived the reason for it.

Founder

Jim Carol

Jim founded GameChanger in 2007 after his son Taylor's cancer diagnosis, when he saw firsthand that games and play were a lifeline through long hospital stays. He set out to bring that same lifeline to every kid in a hospital bed — building, with a community of volunteers, the world's only networked Xbox hospital system. He still leads the organization today.

Co-founder

Taylor Carol

Taylor is a childhood-cancer survivor who came through five years of treatment with a controller in his hand — the lived experience at the heart of GameChanger's mission. Today he helps lead the charity, carrying its work to families, hospitals, and the gaming industry. "The cure had a controller."

High-resolution founder photos and additional headshots are available to credentialed media on request.

Verified-fact sheet

Stats you can cite, with their sources.

Play isn't a nice extra — it's clinically supported. Here is the evidence base behind the claim, sourced.

Distraction — including games and play — is the best-supported way to ease the pain and distress of children's needle procedures. Birnie et al., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2018) — 59 trials, 5,550 children.
Game-based and virtual-reality distraction produces large reductions in children's pain and anxiety during medical procedures. Eijlers et al., Anesthesia & Analgesia (2019).
Play is essential to healthy child development — pediatricians are urged to "prescribe" it. American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics (2018).
There are roughly 3.5 billion gamers worldwide — a community GameChanger mobilizes for kids in hospitals. Industry estimate, ~3.5 billion gamers globally.
GameChanger operates the world's only networked Xbox hospital system, serving over 350 kids a day at one partner site alone. Katy Welkie, CEO, Primary Children's Hospital: "…the world's most advanced safe gaming network in any hospital — serving over 350 kids a day."

Every statistic on this site is sourced. Media may request the original studies, citations, and supporting documentation directly from our press team.

Brand & logos

Logos & wordmark.

Please use the official GameChanger logo and don't alter, recolor, or stretch it.

Primary wordmark

GameChanger

The white wordmark above is the primary mark for dark backgrounds. Hi-res logo files, the wordmark on light backgrounds, brand colors, and usage guidelines are available to media on request.

Need vector or hi-res assets? Email our press team and we'll send a full brand pack.

Media contact

Get in touch.

For interviews, quotes, b-roll, photos, or fact-checking, reach our press team. We respond quickly and we love helping reporters get the story right.

Press inquiries

press@gamechangercharity.org

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