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 $125,000.

The Official 2024 Dragon Con Charity Partner

Arthritis Foundation is boldly pursuing a cure for America’s #1 cause of disability. They’re championing the fight to conquer arthritis with life-changing science, resources, advocacy and community connections.

For over seven decades, the Arthritis Foundation has led the fight to conquer arthritis for nearly 60 million adults and hundreds of thousands of children in the United States living with the disease. The Arthritis Foundation provides ways for people to take control of arthritis by connecting them with others who understand the challenges.  Arthritis steals everyday joys, forcing many who live with it to say No to the things they want or need to do. But there are ways to say Yes instead of No. Yes to advocating for our community and making connections that count. Yes to advancing research for better treatments and a cure.

With your help, the Arthritis Foundation shape and influence health care policies and laws at both state and federal levels. People with arthritis face unique barriers to care. But through the Arthritis Foundation and their nationwide network of committed Advocates, they are fighting to address key policy issues on both the state and federal levels with lawmakers, insurers, employers and regulators. Take action with them to improve access to care, learn more about advocating for yourself, and get involved locally!

With your insights, the Arthritis Foundation make sure effective arthritis treatments are being developed while also pursuing a cure. For seven decades, they have led the way in funding scientific research to conquer arthritis.

 

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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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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.