Survival Challenge Season 10 Fundraiser!

Hello, Survival Challenge family and friends!

Hard to believe it, but Season 10 arrives next summer. We want to do something big to mark the occasion, and we’d love your help.

The SC has two goals every year: give the game to those who long to play it, and donate every penny possible to charitable causes. To meet these goals for our milestone season, we’re shooting for our best fundraising effort in DWSC/SC history.

Since our inaugural season in 2013, Survival Challenge has invested in the equipment and resources needed to create an exceptional, often transformative, experience for our players. At the same time, thanks to the ongoing generosity of our community, we’ve donated tens of thousands of dollars to a number of different charities over the past decade.

Your contributions will help us sustain these efforts for years to come.

Our plan is to invest in capital improvements that will allow Survival Challenge to elevate the player and spectator experience while also supporting two charities, one national and one local:

Give Kids the World: This nationally-recognized charity makes it possible for critically ill children and their families to stay at the Give Kids the World Village for a week-long “wish vacation.” [See the bottom of this message for more information about GKTW.]

Western Illinois Regional Council: The WIRC provides community development, crisis counseling and advocacy, and social service programs all over western Illinois, including our host city of Macomb.

Please know that participation matters to us more than the size of your donation, so we welcome contributions of any amount. And if you’d rather support us with enthusiasm and encouragement, that’s wonderful! Get in touch! Rest assured, if we haven’t heard from you in a while, we miss you.

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Added bonus: We’ve got some cool swag for the super generous!

If you donate $100, we’ll send you an Official Survival Challenge T-shirt.

If you donate $150, we’ll send you the shirt and pair it with a Season 10 Merge Buff!

(We’d show you what that looks like, but we don’t want our newbies to know the color!)

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We also have an anonymous benefactor who will match whatever we raise! Every dollar you donate will be doubled.

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Thank you for considering a contribution to Survival Challenge! We’ve had a great first decade, wouldn’t you say? So let’s make the second one even better – and do that together.

As Probst would say… Let’s get it on.

Survival Challenge is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity, so all donations are tax-deductible.

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One of less than 1% of all U.S. charities to be rated Four Stars by Charity Navigator 15 years in a row, Give Kids The World Village is an 89-acre, whimsical nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides critically ill children and their families from around the world with magical week-long wish vacations at no cost.

More than 30,000 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with a critical illness each year, and half of those who are eligible for a wish choose to visit Orlando. Give Kids The World is the nonprofit that fulfills all of these wishes. From life’s simple pleasures to the stuff that dreams are made of, every with family is treated to an all-inclusive experience including transportation; private villa accommodations; all meals and snacks; nightly entertainment; donated theme park tickets; daily gifts; and interactive experiences at the Village, a storybook destination all its own – featuring an array of accessible rides and attractions. Since 1986, more than 178,000 wish children and their families from all 50 states and 76 countries have been welcomed to the Village to laugh together, play together, and create priceless memories away from hospital stays and medical treatments.

Give Kids The World’s mission to create the happiness that inspires hope for wish families is made possible by the generosity of caring corporate partners and individual donors. For more information, visit www.gktw.org.