Who we are

Button Smashers is a tight knit group of friends that are raising money and awareness for the Child's Play Charity by playing video games for forty-eight hours straight. The gameplay will range from playful games with low experience players to high end precision gameplay to both entertain and raise awareness for the charity. The Charity Child's Play is dedicated to improving the lives of children in hospitals and domestic abuse shelters around the world through the kindness and generosity of the video game community and the power of play.

Child's Play

Since 2003, we've set up and organized Child's Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise over 44.3 million dollars. Child's Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital's wish list and send a gift. Child's Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

Donation Widget

What is the Child's Play Donation Widget?

The Child's Play Donation Widget is a tool created to make fundraising for Child's Play Charity easy! If you're just popping a donation link on an existing game stream, running a week-long marathon, or donating in honor of someone, the donation widget is what we created to make it simple and secure.

What personal information does the Child's Play Donation Widget collect?

If you wish to sign up for a free Donor account, we require only an e-mail address in case we need to reach you regarding your account. Any other personal information is optional, and not stored unless you explicitly enter it.

How does the Child's Play Donation Widget secure my personal information?

The small amount of personal information that we have is encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption before being stored in our databases. In addition, all connections made to our system are through encrypted SSL connections.