Role-Playing Game Research - East-Central Spokane RPG Community Center Public Hours Temporarily Suspended Pending Donations

DONATE TODAY to RE-OPEN THE RPG COMMUNITY CENTER TO OUR FREE PUBLIC ACCESS DROP IN AND RPG PROGRAMS!

www.rpgresearch.com/donate

See our Impact, Mission, and Vision statements. 

Our 100% unpaid volunteer-run non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization has helped improve the quality of life and bio-psycho-social functioning of more than 100,000 people since 2017!

Just $40,000/yr keeps our doors open to the public for an entire year enables us to help thousands more. Just $100,000/yr enables us to additionally resume using our small fleet of wheelchair accessible mobile facilities providing services to under-served and un-served populations across the US.

Please donate today!

The East-Central Spokane Role-Playing Game Community Center must temporarily suspend the free public Drop In and RPG Community Programs until more donations are received to cover the costs of providing these free programs to the community.

IMPACT OVERVIEW



For every $100 dollars you donate, when we are open to the public, you help us directly improve the bio-psycho-social functioning of 300 or more people through our free Drop In and RPG community role-playing game and other community programs.

It costs $4,000 per month minimum between rent, insurance, and utilities to be open to the public. We are 100% unpaid volunteer-run, so all of your money goes directly to covering the costs of supporting the programs we provide freely to the community, nothing goes to salaries.

Unfortunately donations in 2023 has plummeted to only a few hundred dollars per month. We have gone as long as we can, but at this point we must temporarily suspend public access until we receive additional donations to cover our costs.

These were multiple weekly programs we offered that have to be suspended for now.

See our Public Calendar for the schedule we normally offer when we receive sufficient donations: www.rpgresearch.com/calendar

We will be continuing our programs on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays at West Central Spokane at the Kendall Yard Spark Central Community Center from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm each month. We have been running programs there for over 5 years (almost as long as they have been open

We have been providing free community Drop In and RPG programs since 1977.

We incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit in 2017. We acquired the property to open the RPG Community Center in early 2022.

(NOTE A single $350k USD donation would enable us to buy the entire property from the landlord, it is around a 1/12th of a city block mini-campus).

We will try to resume our online-only tabletop RPG (TRPG) community Drop In and RPG programs in the new future (these are less expensive than opening the community center physically to the public (over $10,000 per year for insurance to be open to the public!). Watch our Blog and Social Media, and our Calendar Public Schedule page for updates on these programs.

To help us re-open to the public, we need either the community at large to get the monthly donations back up to our minimum operating costs (we are the leanest and meanest possible, 100% unpaid volunteer run organization on open source software, we are incredibly efficient with every dollar), or we need large donations or benefactors to help us reopen. Such as the previous large donations from Drop Out TV's College Humor Media ($28k donation in 2022 that helped us open the center), or the Mindcrack Podcast Interview and $8,000+ USD through their Mindcrack Marathon Fundraiser ($1,000 per hour event), that helped us cover a couple of months of all expenses.

Otherwise, if enough people pay us monthly through our Paypal or Patreon, we can have a reliable budget and keep the doors open.

Each additional $1,000 per month above the $4,000 per month will allow us to be open an addition 1-3 days per week beyond our normal 1-3 days per week. The winter and Summer are the most expensive because the air conditioning in the summer, and the heat in the winter, can easily run over $1,000/month just for the power to be open just 1-2 days per week. This power bill can run in excess of $2-3k/month to be open 5+ days per week to the public during the winter and summer months.

PLEASE DONATE TODAY TO THE 501(C)3 NON-PROFIT RESEARCH AND HUMAN SERVICES ORGANIZATION RPG RESEARCH TO HELP US RE-OPEN PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE RPG COMMUNITY CENTER!

We are 100% volunteer run, and always looking for new volunteers to join our staff. Volunteer at RPG Research today!