While driving home after his shift at a local radio station, Jeromy Adams saw a billboard for Texas Children’s Hospital. He wanted to get more involved with helping his community, so he came up with an idea to do a radio-thon fundraiser for the hospital. It was very successful and became a yearly event. When a young girl Jeromy had met and befriended through that fundraiser passed away from leukemia, he decided to step up his efforts to raise funds for sick and injured children in her memory. As an avid video game player, Jeromy set up a yearly event to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals all over the U.S through a 24 hour game-a-thon. He founded Extra-Life in 2008 as a full day gaming event where participants from all over the world play games and raise money to help these hospitals. Since they started, Extra-Life has had more than 130,000 gamers participate from 42 countries on all continents and well over a quarter of a million donors who have collectively raised just over $8 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
