Child's Play Tops $1M for 2006
The Child's Play Charity organized and run by the Penny Arcade team of Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins to solicit donations from gamers for Christmas gifts to sick children topped $1,000,000 in donations this year. If I remember correctly, part of the impetus for the charity was to show the world that gamers aren't all cheap and self-absorbed. This seems to me an admirable thing with no downside.
