When Club Penguin was up for purchase, one of the rumored reasons that Sony backed out was that Club Penguin insisted on maintaining its charitable donations. After Disney acquired the children's virtual world in August for $350 million, Club Penguin gave $30 million to charity. Now it's letting its users divide their gold earned in-world between environment, children's health or children's education. Club Penguin will then split $1 million between the World Wildlife Fund, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Free The Children. [via AP]
« Second Life Content Suit Settles; US to Recognize Virtual Property | Main | Forterra Announces Developer Program for OLIVE »
December 04, 2007
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341cac2153ef00e54f966c538833
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Club Penguin to Help Users Donate $1 million to Charity:
Comments
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
Our
VWnews Search
Contact
- Staff Reporter
Joey Seiler
joey @ showinitiative . comPublisher
Chris Sherman
chris @ showinitiative . com
512-633-4132
Recent Posts
- Virtual World Wrap-Up For The Week Of March 19
- TeamPalz Launching Sports-Themed World
- Live Gamer Adds Kount For Fraud Control
- Lemur Bay Launching As Kids World With Text-To-Speech
- World Golf Tour Raises $10M Series C Round
- Coke Considering New Virtual Presence
- GAME Launching PlayStation Home Moonbase
- Playdom Invests $5M In MetroGames
- Webosaurs Goes Mobile With Dino Surf iPhone App
- Metaverse Mod Squad, Inversoft Parter Up
Our
Sponsors
Categories
- 3D TLC
- Books
- Business
- Community
- Current Affairs
- Deals
- Design and Development
- Education
- Engage 2010
- Engage! Expo
- Enterprise
- Entertainment
- Events
- Film
- Games
- Government
- Insight
- Interviews
- Investment
- Jobs
- Legal
- M & A
- Marketing/Advertising
- Mobile
- Money
- Music
- My Turn
- People
- Products
- Religion
- Research
- Sports
- Startup
- Television
- Virtual Worlds 2008
- Virtual Worlds Expo
- Virtual Worlds London
- Web/Tech
- Weblogs
Recent Comments
- Utherverse on Coke Considering New Virtual Presence
- Dixie Kirani on Moshi Monsters Gets Memberships
- Richard Bishop on There.com Shutting Down On March 9th11
- Lemurbay on Lemur Bay Launching As Kids World With Text-To-Speech
- tony on Bigpoint Splits Casual, Core Games into Siloed Portals
- Inversoft on Metaverse Mod Squad, Inversoft Parter Up
- Len Bullard on There.com Shutting Down On March 9th11
- Terry Redfield on There.com Shutting Down On March 9th11
- Jorge Rosales on Enne Entertainment Developing Language Education World On HeroEngine
- FluidInsanity on There.com Shutting Down On March 9th11
Brilliant. Delighted to hear about this initiative!
Posted by: Alanagh Recreant | December 05, 2007 at 12:25 AM