Check out this amazing article from our Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands Pinball Machine Dedication!
Also, Check out this incredible News Coverage from ABC13 Houston! This is all about our Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands Pinball Machine Dedication and The Game Preserve!
ABC13 Houston- Texas Children’s Dedication and The Game Preserve
We have a new office and a new team member here at the Project Pinball Charity!
At the beginning of this year, we made BIG changes here at the Project Pinball Headquarters. We expanded our office by over 900 square feet! We now have not one but TWO extra rooms for pinball machines. That’s twice the fun! We even expanding our staff and added a new team member!
Meet Chelsey, born and raised in SWFL; she is currently finishing up her bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. Chelsey will oversee running and coordinating all of Project Pinball’s events and marketing!
She will be attending the Midwest Gaming Classic with Senior Founder/Director Daniel Spolar next weekend! Make sure you give her a warm welcome to the pinball community!
You can help today by donating your pinball machine.
1. Helping Families: We started our charity by placing pinball machines in Children’s Hospitals and we still continue to do that today. We added Ronald McDonald Houses locations to our charity’s list as well. We found years ago that a pinball machine placed in the right setting can bring joy and happiness to families that are experiencing troubled times. The doctors, nurse and child life specialist express the therapeutic and beneficial properties that such active play can have on a patients’ recovery.
2. Helping Children with Special Needs: We are placing pinball machines in schools that help children with autism and other special needs. A pinball machine can help build the bridge dealing with child develop social skills, verbal and nonverbal communications, motor skills, as well as other challenges.
3. Helping Seniors: The seniors can enjoy pinball machines as well as the younger pinball players! We place older games and titles that this crowd could possibly recognize from their youth, bringing back those wonderful memories and helping their motor skills as well.
4. Helping Raise Funding: Fear not, we can still use your donation, but in a different way. If we cannot use your pinball machine, we will try to sell it to a pinball enthusiast or similar, to find it a good home. Using the proceeds to help fund our charity’s mission to place more and more pinball machines to help others in need.
For some reasons, we can not use the pinball machines in the hospital or other similar settings. The two things that hold us back are:
• When a pinball machine theme is considered too risqué, racy, lewd or untasteful to be used in a family setting.
• When a pinball machine is received in a condition that is considered to be in too bad of shape or in need of too many repairs to be safe or reliable in a hospital or similar host location.
5. Tax Savings Incentive: Project Pinball Charity can offer you a tax certificate, since we are a 501(c)(3) not for profit pinball charity, that you can use for your next year’s tax return as a tax deduction.
6. No Heavy Lifting: We will be glad to pick up your pinball machine. Just email us at: projectpinballcharity@gmail.com
You contact us here at: projectpinballcharity@gmail.com if you would like to donate a pinball machine. We will be glad to help through this easy process.
For more information about our charity: http://projectpinball.org/about/
To follow our charity’s mission go to www.facebook.com/ProjectPinball/ and “LIKE” our page
Our Senior Founder/Director Daniel Spolar has been recognized by Jeff Teolis from Pinball Profile as one of the Top 10 Most Intriguing Pinball People of 2018!! It is great to be recognized for all the effort that he has put forth for the charity and how it helps many others through pinball!
Make sure to listen to the amazing podcast below by clicking the Play Button!
Take 2 minutes out of your day to watch this wonderful video regarding Project Pinball’s most recent Pinball Machine Dedication at The Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Near Egleston! This pinball machine dedication shows our many supporters from the Atlanta community and a call to action from our very own Senior Founder/Director Daniel Spolar!
Check out the ways you can help push Project Pinball further!!
Check out this awesome trailer for our brand new “Meet Project Pinball” Film Documentary!
Come join us as we showcase Imoto Harney and her film crew’s wonderful efforts filming during two of our recent dedications at the Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida and Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities.
This is a touching documentary that captures the emotions, the impact…. the reasons how Project Pinball delivers joy to a hospital setting by using a pinball machine for that special purpose.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/17V08GppP4umR0DFhBHK94xgF43JXckr0/view
Check out this great video about Project Pinball’s partnership with Beercade in Omaha, Nebraska!
Check out Project Pinball’s Bonus Play News Letter for the month of April! This is a great way to keep up with the charity and to read about special things have been happening! It also gives you great insight to what is coming up for the charity and where we will be heading!
Lucas Heiser plans to clean and recondition the WurliTzer Jukebox.
When the restoration is complete Heiser said it will glow a shiney blue just as it did in the 60s.
“You can purchase it and help out the kids, and get a beautiful machine in return” Heiser said.
Anyone interested can visit Heiser Restoration or find more information on their website www.HeiserRestorations.com.
The WurliTzer is one of the last jukeboxes people can actually see the mechanism and watch the 33 and 45 records change out and play.
The record section was covered in 1963.
The jukebox was donated to Heiser Restorations by the residents at E. Dene Moore Care Center in Rifle, Co.
All the profits raised from selling the restored jukebox will be donated to Project Pinball.
“Pinball has been a way of life for a lot of people as a relzxing thing to do, but also therapy, anger management for some people,” Heiser said.
Project Pinball donates the machines to hospitals allowing patients, families, and even staff to use pinball as a form of therapy during the tough situations.
“There’s such a generational gap and we want to just close that and bring back that communication with people,” Heiser said.
http://www.nbc11news.com/content/news/387997982.html
