So here’s your pre-Thanksgiving roundup of good causes and civic geekery to get involved in, from a comic historical guide to the infamous Desert Bus.
As always you can find the Civic Geek Catalog at CivicGeek.com, where it’s sorted by Geekery and by Category.
Anime
- Academics
- Anime And Manga Studies – Focuses on news and articles on the academic studies of anime and manga. It’s owner also does a symposium an Anime Expo.
Comics
- Academics
- Comics Research – A curated guide to books and resources about comics books, comics trips, and fannish information. Open to contributions of material and suggested resources.
- History
- Digital Comics Museum – An enormous archive of researched, curated, public domain golden age comics available free – and always open for donations and assistance!
Video Games
- Charitable Work
- Desert Bus – Since 2007 Desert Bus has been raising money for Child’s Play via webcasting marathons of the infamous never-ending bus driving game “Desert Bus.”
- Donate Games – Partners with publishers and collects donations of games and equipment, then re-gifts items or sells them when appropriate to raise money.
- Game To Aid – A charity that raises money via broadcast video-game marathons, often with various creative (and at times painful) themes.
- Games Done Quick – Does game speedruns to raise money for charity.
- Gaming For Others – A UK group that does marathons for charity, and works with Special Effect.
- Global Gaming Initiative – Delivers positive mobile games – and then contributes 50% of the proceeds to appropriate causes.
- General
- Genes In Space – A game that uses game data and environments to “gamify” analyzing cancer data.
– Steven Savage
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.