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Project Pinball Adds Assisted Living Facilities to Nationwide Mission

The Project Pinball Charity is very excited to announce that we have a Brand-New story to tell!

We set out back in 2011 to place as many pinball machines as possible throughout our nation for a therapeutic benefit to anyone who comes in contact with the machines we place.

AND we are doing just that!

Not only are we dealing with Children’s Hospitals, Ronald McDonald Houses, and Adult Care Hospitals

Now we are also adding…

ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES!

That’s right! We are thrilled to announce that as of tomorrow we will have the first of hopefully many pinball machines dedicated to an Assisted Living Facility!

Love Across America Tour 2019

Project Pinball’s 5th Annual Love Across America Tour is gonna launch June 23rd!

If you would like to help us with our LAA Tour or would like to be involved please contact us! We have many exciting events, fundraisers, meet & greets, and dedications coming up! We would love to see you all during our travels!

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Project Pinball Honored at Walter Day’s 90th Trading Card Award Ceremonies

The celebration of Walter Aldro Day Jr.’s 70th Birthday took place May 18th, in Banning, California. It was held at the Museum of Pinball. John Weeks, the founder of the museum, brought about two dozen of the most popular and iconic arcade videos and pinballs for the party-goers to play for free.

Walter Day himself held his 90th trading card award ceremony as well, where Project Pinball was honored to receive not our first but SECOND trading card into the hall of fame. Project Pinball was one of the hundreds of new exclusive trading cards that were unveiled at the ceremony. We were so grateful and honored to be in attendance for Walter’s birthday celebration! This card took several months of planning and designing exclusively for our charity.

We are deeply honored to be receiving recognition once again for our charity’s accomplishments!

You can find more information on Walter Day’s card collection at https://thewalterdaycollection.com/

Pinball Wizard Showcase in Maine!

The Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine had their Second Annual Pinball Wizard Showcase yesterday!

Pinball Wizard is an Upper School trimester elective that explores the history, physics, geometry, art, electronics, and engineering of pinball machines. What a great RX Pinball Program they have set up at the Berwick Academy and a great way to teach students the inner workings of a pinball machine and relate it to all the aspects of STEAM!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to try out the students’ projects in support of The Project Pinball Charity!

Project Pinball’s NEW Office and Team Member!

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!

6 Excellent Reasons to Donate Your Old Pinball Machine to The Project Pinball Charity.

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

Most Intriguing Pinball People of 2018-Project Pinball Charity!

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!

Love Across America Tour 2018

The Project Pinball Team is preparing for our 4th Annual Love Across America Tour!

We are thrilled to announce that we are heading out on to the road again! This tour will provide us with the opportunity to do so many wonderful things throughout the entire month of July! The love and support we receive along the way are remarkable and we are always happy to give the gift of pinball!

On this tour, we will be traveling across the United States to plenty of destinations! These include New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Texas, Nebraska, Georgia, Florida, and so many more destinations in between!

We will be in attendance of 3 great shows Southern-Fried Gaming Expo, Pintastic New England, and Replay FX/Pinburgh. We can’t wait to spread the Project Pinball experience across the country! To stay updated on our progress, follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!