Charity

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

How real-life superheroes can change lives

At Dragon Con, we raise money for our designated charity throughout the convention via auctions and other events. These funds are donated to a designated charity that is selected at the beginning of the Dragon Con year in January.

Organizations selected in the past have represented a wide range of community services, including support for families facing lupus, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and heart disease, assistance for the homeless, community food banks, education, and libraries.

Dragon Con is committed to helping the community through raising funds and providing a dollar for dollar match of $150,000.

The Official 2026 Dragon Con Charity Partner

This year we will be partnering with Hope Atlanta to support our neighbors experiencing homelessness.

Mission:

Hope Atlanta is Georgia’s longest-standing nonprofit committed to preventing and ending homelessness with 125 years of service beginning in 1900. We help our clients obtain housing and achieve security and stability by working alongside them and connecting them to the resources they need to achieve self-sufficiency.  We offer a comprehensive approach to street outreach, housing support, homelessness prevention, and hunger relief. We work hand-in-hand with clients, providing comprehensive services and wraparound support.

Our Neighbors:

Hope Atlanta serves all community members in need including individuals, families, senior citizens, children, veterans and those living with HIV/AIDS. Our clients are low-income to very-low-income individuals and families experiencing homelessness, at risk of homelessness, and those experiencing hunger insecurity. We serve over 6,500 individuals and families per year and over 35% of our clients are families with children.

The Need:

The increasing rates of homelessness in Atlanta continue to be a concern and priority for our community. Community members are often forced to make hard decisions between paying rent or going without other necessities like food, clothing, and medical care. More and more people are only one missed paycheck or one medical emergency away from homelessness. In just the past few months, our call volume has grown from 3,000 to 15,000 calls each month. That’s five times more people reaching out for help including those facing eviction, seniors choosing between rent and medicine, and families struggling to feed and house their children.

Dragon Con Charity Auctions

In order to raise the most funds possible for our designated charity each year, we host several charity events throughout the show, including our main auction on Sunday morning through the afternoon. Saturday morning, we will have the items for Sunday’s auction on display.

Charity Submissions

We welcome all submissions for the Charity Auctions, held throughout Dragon Con weekend.

Without donations from people just like you, we would not be able to help local charities around Atlanta, consistently raising over $100,000 each year for the past five years.  Remember your donation helps us raise $2 for every $1 with Dragon Con’s company match up to $125,000!

If you’d like to help, we would love to have you donate an item for us to sell at the charity auction.  Items sold at past charity auctions have included: books, comic books, artwork, signed photos, movie props, prop replicas, toys, games, costumes, DVD players, computers, TVs, store and restaurant gift cards, weekend getaways at hotels, site visits to the “live” set of a TV series, a meal with an actor or writer, a writing review by an editor, inclusion (Tuckerization) in an upcoming book, and much more.  If you have an idea for something you’d like to donate and would like to discuss it, contact us at charityevents@dragoncon.org

Auction Item Mailing Address

If you would like to send an item (or items) for this year’s event, please send them to:

Dragon Con Charity Events
Dragon Con
5044 Clark Howell Highway
Atlanta, GA 30349

Please include your contact information (name and email or street address) for donation tracking purposes.  Our computer system this year allows us to track all donations so we can send out receipts to everyone that made a donation (if you wish to donate anonymously, please let us know).

Auction Item Drop-off

If you are unable to send your donation to us before the convention, we will have a Charity Events Booth open Thursday: 2-6, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10-6, and Monday: 10-2. The booth is in the Marriott Hotel, one floor below the hotel registration desk.  At the booth, we will be displaying items that have been donated, as well as accepting additional donated items.  If you need help with your donation, come by the booth and we will have a staff member go with you to pick up the item.

As always, we thank you for your generosity.

Robert A. Heinlein "Pay It Forward" Blood Drive

Give the gift of life and donate blood at the Dragon Con Blood Drive. Dragon Con is a major donor for LifeSouth, which serves more than 40 hospitals in the Atlanta area and more than 150 hospitals in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. The Blood Drive will be held at the Hyatt on the Conference Room level. Don’t miss out this year! Appointments are encouraged but not necessary. Visit their website (https://www.lifesouth.org/dragoncon/) for more information or to make an appointment. Join them, give blood, and get a free T-shirt!

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*Wednesday appointments first by invitation only and then open to general fans

Dragon Con Superheroes

The Dragon Con Superheroes is a community service project team for our members, volunteers, and staff to provide opportunities to gather and enjoy time with our Dragon Con family while giving back to our local community. Since 2014, Dragon Con Superheroes have contributed more than 3,100 hours to Atlanta-area non-profits.

We are looking forward to even more participation this year so that it can be our best year yet.  On top of the incredible generosity of our members, the community is strong and loves a good reason to get together outside of Labor Day weekend and we couldn’t think of a better way to do so!

Read more about the program and our projects here. We hope to see you at one of our projects this year!

Charity Application

Currently, we are not taking future applications. 

Dragon Con is the largest multimedia popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music and film in the universe. The convention occurs over Labor Day in Atlanta, GA. We raise money for our designated charity throughout the convention via auctions and other events as well as a capped company match. These funds are donated to a designated charity that is selected at the beginning of the Dragon Con year in November or December.

Organizations selected in the past have represented a wide range of community services, including support for families facing lupus, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and heart disease, assistance for the homeless, community food banks, education and libraries.

We typically select a charity more than a year in advance so your application will be reviewed for the next applicable show and kept on file for three years.