Bungie Day Giving Festival 2023

Bungie Day is almost here and so is the Bungie Foundation’s fourth edition of the Bungie Day Giving Festival! The fun gets started next week on July 6, but we are here today to give you the full rundown of all the prizes, incentives, and surprises in store (well not all the surprises).

The campaign runs from July 6 – July 23 with a full schedule of featured streamers, a special community competition, awards for our top fundraisers, and a whole week full of prizes!

Registration for fundraising is officially open now! Head to OUR CAMPAIGN HOMEPAGE to get registered and begin setting up your personal fundraising page today.

Your Support Hard at Work

Before we chat shiny things, we want to talk about the real-world impact your support is having in the world. We finished 2022 raising more than $5 million for charity across all campaigns. Simply put, that is astounding! Thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts, for your generosity.

Your support enabled us to onboard three new partner hospitals into the Little Lights program, which provides pediatric patients with iPads containing age-appropriate entertainment, therapeutic play, and education applications to provide comfort, distraction, and a sense of normalcy to their hospital experience. You also ensured that we could continue our funding of the groundbreaking anti-racist character creation research, led by the talented team at Yale University, and you helped us provide STEM scholarships to incoming freshmen who would otherwise be unable to afford a college education. And you provided life-saving funding for low-income communities around the world who have been – and will be – impacted by natural or socio-political crisis.

When 2023 started out with the devasting earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Bungie community immediately leapt into action. In less than a week, you raised over $300,000 that went directly to life-saving relief efforts through our partners Direct Relief and International Rescue Committee. Most recently, the community truly embodied the call to “Stand with Asians” with your support of the Harmonic Waves emblem, raising over $100,000 for International Community Health Services.

Incentives, Prizes, and Everything Nice!

This year’s Bungie Day Giving Festival streaming event will feature more prizes than we have ever offered before!

Donations

• $10 – Heartful Shell Exotic Ghost, fully equipped with heart bubbles galore.
• $25 – Blue Blood Cells, this year’s Bungie Day Giving Festival emblem.
• $50 – Helium Hearts, give your bestie something to lift their spirits.
• $100 – Bungie Day emblem bundle. Every Bungie Day emblem released over the past five years. All were previously retired.

Fundraising

• $777 – Bungie Foundation heart emblem bundle. All previously retired heart emblems (five total) from prior campaigns.

• $1,777 – Exclusive Marathon Collection [000] UESC T-shirt with unique “0777” number printed on back. This number will be exclusive to fundraisers who reach this tier.

Top Fundraisers

Top 10 – The top 10 fundraisers for the campaign will receive a PlayStation game code of their choice from the list below:

• The Last of Us – Part I
• The Last of Us – Part II
• Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
• Horizon Forbidden West
• God of War Ragnarök
• Gran Turismo 7
• Returnal

Top 25 – The top 25 fundraisers will receive limited-edition Marathon announce T-shirts. These shirts have never been offered to the public for sale.

Lifetime Fundraising

The Light Keeper’s Guild continues to expand to reward our community for their dedication and continued support. We are pleased to announce our newest incentive tiers at $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000, each with a unique and extremely limited emblem plus shader combo. Any individuals who have qualified for these awards already will have these granted by the start of the campaign.

• $25,000 – Mediastinum emblem + Principled Porphyry shader

• $50,000 – Venae Cavae emblem + Hearts of Gold shader

• $100,000 – Cordula emblem + Argent Champion shader

Fun fact: each of the emblem names above is inspired by some form of the word heart:

• Mediastinum – The space within your chest that holds your heart.
• Venae Cavae – The two large veins that carry blood back to the heart (superior and inferior vena cava).
• Cordula – Name derived from the Latin word cor, meaning “Little Heart.”

Seven Days of Prizes

During week 2 of Bungie Day Giving Festival, we will host our first “Seven Days of Prizes”. Each day there will be a special prize to win. See the schedule below and follow @BungieLove on Twitter for the latest updates:

• July 13 – Signed Lightfall Collector’s Edition
• July 14 – Destiny Plush Bundle
• July 15 – Drifter Collectible Bundle
• July 16 – Lord Shaxx Statue
• July 17 – Variks Statue
• July 18 – Witch Queen Statue
• July 19 – Sony PlayStation game code bundle

Community Emblem Competition

Our goal is to give everyone an opportunity to get involved with the campaign in a way that resonates with you. Whether through generous giving, raising money as a fundraiser, simply spreading the word about the campaign, or now… through your artistic talents.

We are proud to announce the first-ever worldwide Bungie community emblem art competition! One lucky winner’s emblem design will be chosen to be made into an actual in-game emblem which will be used for a future fundraising campaign.

The support shown to the Bungie Foundation over the years and the desire to do good in the world is #Emblematic of the true nature and spirit of this amazing community. With this in mind, we wanted to celebrate the community roots of Bungie Day in July. Over the years we have been inspired by much of the incredibly talented fan art and we wanted to give you the opportunity to have that talent enshrined in-game forever.

Beginning today, Guardians can begin submitting their designs on Twitter using the hashtag #Emblematic. To avoid potential bias, all submissions will be presented to a voting panel without identifying information about the original artist. The final three designs will be voted on internally by a group of Bungie employees to determine the winner. The winner will work with our art team to finalize the design and ensure it meets all necessary requirements.

Below are some guidelines for submissions:

• Nameplate dimensions are 474 x 96 px.
  • Other components of full emblem design (Icon and Header) are not required for submission.
• There are no theme/color restrictions. The world is your oyster.
• Art must be flat/2D and non-animated.
• Submissions must include the hashtag #Emblematic to be included in the competition.
• Branding, logos, and copywritten images cannot be included.
• Any hateful or explicit imagery will lead to immediate disqualification.
• This is not a popularity contest.
• All submissions are subject to the policy seen here.

The submission period will be open from today until July 13. The winner will be announced in the July 20 TWID.

Please reach out to charityevents@bungie.com if there are any questions.

Good luck, Guardians! We can’t wait to see those emblems!

Bungie Day Celebration Continues

The Bungie Store is also getting in on the celebratory fun for Bungie Day from July 7 through July 13, and will be featuring brand new Destiny 2 apparel and collectibles! There will also be a free Bungie Day-themed emblem with any purchase, a huge sale and restock of previously retired Bungie Rewards (as long as you’re eligible!), and general good vibes. Follow @BungieStore on Twitter and Instagram for more details next week.

We have an amazing two weeks planned and we hope that you all can participate in your own way. Bungie Day is all about our community and we want to say thank you again for all the love and support you show the Bungie Foundation!

Head to OUR CAMPAIGN HOMEPAGE now to see all the details and get registered. Donations open July 6, 2023 at 10 AM PT.

Love,

The Bungie Foundation