 

{"id":4040,"date":"2019-09-20T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T20:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ablegamers.g5u2p0ll-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2019-10-04T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:56:18","slug":"unlocktober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/unlocktober\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocktober: Unlocking Opportunities and Enabling Play for People with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4042\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ablegamers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/header.png?resize=800%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"our volunteer Jessie playing games with a player at an event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ablegamers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/header.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ablegamers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/header.png?resize=600%2C300&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ablegamers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/header.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ablegamers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/header.png?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As October approaches, the gaming community is playing new releases and looking forward to games coming soon. From the AbleGamers side of things, we are already trying to accommodate the rise in Peer-Counseling Requests and Grant requests that come from new releases.\u00a0 We are also focusing on how we can support even more players in 2020. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve created <\/span><b>Unlocktober, an entire month of fundraising in October to support of the AbleGamers Charity mission to Unlock Opportunities and Enable Play for People with Disabilities.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we said during our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/april\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fundraiser: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At AbleGamers, we are lifelong gamers who came together because of the impact of the gaming community in our own lives, and so for us, it\u2019s important that everyone has the chance to make amazing friendships. We decided early on that we didn\u2019t want to simply loan access to these communities we wanted to grant it forever. When we enable a player through our grant program, it takes many hours to find the right controller(s) and equipment to bring them the joy of gaming, and hundreds of dollars to make it work perfectly. The person receiving the grant gets to keep their controllers forever. We know that it\u2019s all worth it. We know that \u201cone more game\u201d could easily lead to \u201cone more friend.\u201d If you\u2019ve ever spent a weekend gaming with friends, you know how important that is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YOU can help support our mission to make sure that more people can participate in the world of play that comes from video games.\u00a0 You can support The AbleGamers Charity this October by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tiltify.com\/ablegamers-charity\/a-day-to-game\">donating<\/a> <\/strong>or<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tiltify.com\/ablegamers-charity\/a-day-to-game\"> hosting your own fundraising event<\/a>.<\/strong> Raising over $500 makes you eligible for our 2019 fundraising hoodie!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiltify.com\/ablegamers-charity\/a-day-to-game\">Register a fundraising page on Tiltify to support our 2019 fundraising during Unlocktober!<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Or make a <a href=\"https:\/\/tiltify.com\/ablegamers-charity\/a-day-to-game\">donation<\/a> in support of the initiative<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/fundraising-resources\/\">Click here to check out our fundraising resource page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nAs October approaches, the gaming community is playing new releases and looking forward to games coming soon. From the AbleGamers side of things, we are already trying to accommodate the rise in Peer-Counseling Requests and Grant requests that come from&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/unlocktober\/\" class=\"link-more\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Unlocktober: Unlocking Opportunities and Enabling Play for People with Disabilities\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ablegamers-blog","category-ablegamers-news","entry","entry-type-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablegamers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}