Game Knights
"Improving and cheering lives"
Game Knights is dedicated to helping children pass the time with fun and games while they are confined to a hospital during their recovery from an injury or illness. We provide electronic devices such as video games, consoles and controllers, iPods, DVDs and DVD players to engage and distract children who may be sad, bored, and lonely.
Our Leadership
Ryan Lutnick
President
"I take tremendous pride in taking the reigns of Game Knights from my 3 older siblings and continuing the legacy of helping children in hospitals around the New York City area. Despite the Covid-19 limitations imposed with respect to visiting the hospitals and connecting with the children, we continue to donate electronics, games, and much more to the kids. Additionally, we are further expanding our charity's reach to other areas of need."
Jack Silberstein
Vice-President
Sam Stern
Vice-President
What We Do
Game Knights, Inc. is the brainchild of Kyle Lutnick. As a child, Kyle was injured at camp and spent a week at an upstate New York hospital. While recovering, Kyle discovered that there were no diversions for the other patients and himself. His parents brought his video game console and games from home so Kyle could entertain the other children and himself. He left them there for other children to use so that they could play after he left the hospital. The creation of Game Knights is the continuation of Kyle’s idea of donating games to distract kids during their long convalescence. After Kyle left New York City for college, his siblings, Brandon and Casey, continued the Game Knights mission.
As of 2020, the youngest Lutnick sibling, Ryan, leads the organization and is continuing the core mission of Game Knights as well as expanding the charity's reach to other areas of need.
Game Knights collects brand new gaming devices and games. The charity also encourages financial donations and uses these funds to purchase new devices. Game Knights focuses our distribution efforts on those hospitals and institutions which have not traditionally had funding to provide such devices and cater mostly to children and families in underprivileged communities that cannot afford to provide the electronics on their own.
Game Knights, Inc. is a not-for profit organization. 100% of donations go directly towards our charitable efforts. Game Knights is a tax-exempt public charity status as described in section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue code. Donation of goods and funds are tax-deductible.
Our Past Visits & Events
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Game Knights (Dalton) - Cohen Children's Medical Center
October 2023
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Game Knights - Children's Hospital at Montefiore
June 2023
Game Knights - Bellvue Children's Hospital
June 2023
Game Knights - St. Mary's Hospital for Children
May 2023
Game Knights - Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai
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Game Knights - The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
June 2022
Game Knights - St. Mary's Hospital for Children
February & May 2018
Game Knights - St. Mary's Hospital for Children
June 2017
Game Knights LA - UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
October 2016
Game Knights Hamptons - St. Charles Pediatric Rehabilitative Hospital
December 2015
Game Knights - St. Mary's Hospital for Children
June 2015
Game Knights - Hospital for Special Surgery
December 2014
Game Knights LA - UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
December 2014
Game Knights - Memorial Sloan Kettering
May 2014
Game Knights - Starlight Children's Holiday Party
December 2013
Game Knights Hamptons - St. Charles Pediatric Rehabilitative Hospital
December 2013
Game Knights/Game Knights Hamptons - Lemonade Stands
Summer 2013
Game Knights LA - UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
August 2013
Game Knights Hamptons - St. Charles Hospital
2013
Game Knights - Bellevue Hospital
April 2013
Game Knights - Komansky Center
December 2012
Game Knights Hamptons - First Annual Donation to Stony Brook Children's Hospital
December 2012
Game Knights - Stony Brook Children's Hospital
August 2012
Game Knights Hamptons - Stony Brook Children's Hospital
November 2011
Game Knights Hamptons - Bake Sale
November 2011
Game Knights - Mt. Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
November 2011
Game Knights - The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
March 2011
January 2023
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Requesting Your Support
Game Knights accepts new game consoles and games, new electronic devices, monetary donations, and stock. To make a donation, please contact us via e-mail at info@gameknights.org
If you would like to make a monetary donation, we accept checks made out to Game Knights, Inc. :
Game Knights, Inc.
c/o Cantor Fitzgerald, 2rd floor
499 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022
We thank you on behalf of the children and families who will benefit from the generous gifts of our donors!
Our Supporters
Game Knights is grateful for the support of several corporations.
Cantor Fitzgerald
BGC Partners
Best Buy
Nintendo
Our Other Teams
Game Knights Hamptons
Game Knights Hamptons was started in 2011 by Max Snow and Ben Snow of Pierson Middle/High School.
Become a Knight!
We are always looking to expand the reach of our organization. If you are interested in starting a chapter please email info@gameknights.org.
"On behalf of the patients here at New York Presbyterian and Morgan Stanley Children’s hospital, we want to thank you for your generous donation of Wiis, Xboxes, PSPs, PS3s and a multitude of DVDs and games for the systems. We know that having a variety of diversional activities helps our patients’ hospital stay be more manageable. Please extend our gratitude to those who help you and your Game Knights Foundation bring smiles to so many."
Kevin Hammeran
SVP COO Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and Sloane Women's Hospital
"Your extremely generous donation of laptops and toys will bring many smiles to the faces of our pediatric patients.
Your gift is truly meaningful to our program as many children arrive at our doors with little understanding of what lies ahead. Now, our nursing staff can help quiet anxious thoughts or calm stressful times with the aid of games on an iPad or a Nintendo Switch, while patients wait for an MRI or procedure. Your gifts are making a difference in the care of every patient within CHAM."
Michael D. Cabana, MD, MPH
The Children's Hospital
at Montefiore
"The overwhelming stress of hospitalization is even more evident during times when so many families are struggling in our city and around the country. We are so grateful to have supporters like you help us realize our mission to teach, discover and advance the health of our community. Your donation will allow us to provide an atmosphere of healing for our pediatric patients and speed the recovery process."
Meghan D. Kelly, MSEd, CCLS
Director of Child Life
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
Contact Us
Get in touch with Game Knights to discover more about our work and how to donate. We thank you for your support.
Game Knights, Inc.
110 E 59th Street
New York, New York 10022
(212) 610-2330