Presentation by Knight Foundation at Games for Change Festival 2012 on 7 Lessons from Funding Social Impact Games. Insights from an in-depth evaluation of two real-world games: Macon Money an alternative local currency game and Battlestorm a youth-based physical game on hurricane preparedness.
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1. Social Impact Games:Engagement, Collaboration and
Impact@mayurhpatel
2. How can foundations help drivesocial sector innovation? 3.
Knight + Games 4. Battlestorm,Gulfcoast.The GamesMaconMoney, Macon,
GA. 5. Why the Gulf Coast?An ongoingcommitment torecovery
andresilience 6. Battlestorm:How to Play 7. 493 players in 5
communities 10-14 year-old boysBattlestorm:and girls playedAt a
glance afterschool at local Boys andGirls Clubs 8. Why Macon?An
existing initiativeand partners on-the-ground 9. +=Macon Money:How
to play 10. Macon Money:Game ActivityOver Time 11. Clarifying
Questions?Before we move on. 12. Did they work? Yes No Both 13.
SEVEN Lessons learned 14. #1 BuildingWeak Tiesthat Bind 15. #2
LinkingStrategic Playto KnowledgeGains 16. #3 MakingExplorationSafe
17. #4 Play asCatharsis 18. #5 Turninggamers intosuperconductors
19. #6 Building thefuture withthe bricks ofthe past 20. #7
Celebratewhen you gethacked 21. Questions?Learn more:
knightfoundation.org/games/
