Games are fun and social change is serious. Right? We talk with Asi Burak, the president of GamesForChange.org an organization that leads the sector in thinking about the intersection of games and social change. Their annual Games For Change conference brings together the leaders in the gaming and social sector fields to learn about cutting edge advances in the field.

Our conversation covers some examples of successful games and how nonprofits can start exploring gaming for social impact. Creating games can be very expensive, though there can be great upside when it comes to engagement with a target audience and potential growth to a new one.

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Full disclosure – Games For Change is a former client of Whole Whale and they are awesome.

Episode 29 – What is the role of games in making social change?

Speaker 1: This is Using the Whole Whale -a podcast that brings you stories of data and technology in the non-profit world. This is George Weiner, your host and the chief whaler of wholewhale.com. Thank you for joining us.

Speaker 1: Games are tremendously powerful and I think most of our interactions with them come in the form of tiny little candies that we slide around and help companies make, you know, billions of dollars crushing those candies. Today I am excited because we are talking with an organization called Games For Change and Asi the president there has lot of insight on how the field has develop