Gamers Outreach Foundation is a not-for-profit video-game organization based out of Saline Michigan. The organization started off as a rocky start in 2007, when the founders we’re actually just high school students. The founder, Zach Wigal, wanted to organize a Halo 2 contest at his local school. The unfortunate thing was Halo had a M rating and his high school mainly consisted of children under 18 years old. Now we all know a lot of kids under 18 do play Halo 2, but the parent-teacher committee at the school did not want the school to partake in this. Because of this the student couldn’t host their event.

The students still wanted to host an event, so with the focus of it being a charity fundraiser they held a public event. They took on the very positive charity focus of Gamers Outreach Foundation and hosted the Halo 2 Tournament along side with a local LAN Party. Their Halo 2 tournament had over 500 spectators and participants and raised $4,000 for Autism Society of America.

In May the Gamers Outreach Foundation will be hosting their 3rd Gamers for Giving event. They have a Facebook event page which already has over 500 people attending and another 1,000 maybes with still another month and a half away from the event. Campus Gamers will be attending this event, and report on the amazing ways these gamers are giving back to their charity.

For more information about this organization you can visit these sites:

Website
Event Webpage
Facebook Fan Page
Facebook Event Page
Wikipedia
Twitter Page