Update 10/22: thank you all so much for supporting this bundle!! i'm so amazed by how well this went!!!! receipts will be offered here soon, but i've got an explanation of what's going on here on twitter—tl;dr the timing of my employer's donation match program is weird but i'm going to borrow from my personal funds so that i can donate on monday!

Update 10/3: I don't even know what to say! We hit our goal yesterday and I just cannot overstate how humbled and thrilled I am. Thank you all so much for your support. I could get into my gratitude for ages, but in the interest of keeping things focused, I'll just make a few quick notes: only the first $1,000 is matched by my employer, but of course all of the excess past that will be donated! My employer will be covering all of the transactional costs, like credit card fees, associated with the whole donation as well. Further updates regarding the donation itself (including receipts) will be shared on my Twitter and Mastodon accounts.

Thank you all so, so much again for your support. This is more than I could have possibly hoped for.

P.S. As I've said before, if you enjoyed something in this bundle, consider leaving a five star rating and/or a comment! It would be a lovely, easy way to show support to the creators who so kindly offered up their work to make this bundle a success.

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Update 9/27:  Holy beans! I expected to hit our $100 goal, but not so fast and not to completely obliterate it like that! I cannot emphasize enough how touched I am by the attention and support this bundle has received. Initially I was hesitant about setting it up at all, given the small scale of the cause, so this is really more than I ever could have expected. Thank you so much.  

I've decided to go for broke and set the goal for my employer's matching limit of $1,000. Any excess will still be donated! It just won't be matched. My employer's matching program does cover all administrative costs, like credit card fees, even past the match, though, so that's pretty cool! I've also decided I hate doing math, so instead of trying to calculate out Itch's share and the sales of my other games that have happened outside the bundles in the final payout, I'm just going to cover what Itch takes myself—that means everything spent on the bundle will end up at Katelynn's Closet!

Also, if you've picked up an item in this bundle and you enjoyed it, please consider leaving a rating and/or a comment on the game's Itch page. It does a lot for the Itch algorithm and would be a lovely way to support and express appreciation for the creators who so kindly contributed to this bundle to make it such a wonderful collection. 

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Hey! My name's Courtney! A whole bunch of other creators and I have offered up a host of games and books in this bundle here with the hopes of raising some money for charity. My employer matches charitable contributions up to $1,000 per employee, and, while that's a lot to ask of only li'l ol' me, a bundle seemed like a great way to try to raise some funds to really take advantage of that matching opportunity!

The charity this bundle supports is called Katelynn's Closet. Katelynn's Closet located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and they give clothing and supplies to disadvantaged children—including my high school self. I owe this charity a lot: they gave me both normalcy and celebration when I estranged myself from my parents and began supporting myself while I was still in high school, and it was because of them that I even found a place to live during my senior year. I'd really like to be able to give back to them, and I'm hoping to do so with this bundle's help!

This bundle contains a great variety of tabletop roleplaying games, and a couple PC games and books, too. Put together a quick game about finding humanity with the one pager Dolls of Theseus, and read about a trans awakening among a found family with volume one of Isekai/Online. In No Choice But to Win!, you and your friends can play out all the high-stakes drama of your favorite sports anime, or you can take turns GMing a romp through the stars in Once More Unto the Stars. If you're by yourself, you can play journaling games to raise an eldritch abomination in Eldritch Pets or deliver mail to faraway places with Flying Courier. Follow the adventures of a plucky teen paired with a grumpy recluse in a land of monsters in the beautifully drawn Rainy Day Dreams, or go help pea knight get a potato in...well, Pea Knight MMO: Get a Potato. There are tons of other brilliant games in here offered by a huge variety of skilled and generous creators, so you'll have a lot to enjoy!

After Itch takes their share, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Katelynn's Closet. Because I need to make the donation myself in order to get my employer's matching contribution, the money will have to go to me first. Receipts of donation and confirmation of submission for matching will be provided on my Twitter, andromedamn, and my Mastodon, nidorina@dice.camp. On request, I'll happily provide any other form of proof asked for, privately or publicly. I'm very aware of the trust I'm asking for by doing this, and I'm not taking the responsibility lightly! If there's anything I can do to further reassure anyone that these funds are going to the right place, please let me know!

Thank you so much for considering and supporting this bundle. It means a lot! And of course, I can't thank the wonderful designers who contributed their work to this enough; supporting a little local charity and trusting me to get this right was a big ask for me to make, and I'm so deeply grateful that people were willing to do so.