FOUNDATION HIGHLIGHTS

Awesome Games Done Quick

From January 8 to 15, a global community of gamers came together for Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ), an annual livestreamed video game marathon organized by Games Done Quick. This year they raised $2.6 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, supporting cancer prevention and early detection efforts worldwide.

For its third year in a virtual format, all-star gamers from around the world met online to speedrun (play as fast as possible) their favorite video games. Tens of thousands tuned in to watch the “best of the best” take on their favorite games. All games were played live.

The gaming community showed their support for cancer prevention and early detection efforts while watching the stream on the official Games Done Quick Twitch channel by donating to the Prevent Cancer Foundation throughout the week. Nearly 40,000 donations were made from more than 21,000 individual donors.

In more than a decade of supporting the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Games Done Quick has helped fund research, technology, cancer prevention and early detection education and outreach, and community grants—both in the United States and abroad. Through our global grants program, we are funding cancer prevention and early detection projects in Haiti and Kenya this year, made possible by the generosity of AGDQ supporters. You can read more about these global grants on page 8.

To learn more about AGDQ’s impact on the Prevent Cancer Foundation, visit preventcancer.org/agdq.