Facebook launches $10 million Black Gaming Creator Program

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 8, 2020
Updated June 19, 2025
2 min

Facebook Gaming announced today the launch of the Black Gaming Creator Program, with $10 million in funding over the next two years.

The effort will support the Black gaming community and equip its next generation of creators (that is, livestreamers or influencers) with funding and resources to express their creativity on Facebook Gaming, and a path to become a partnered gaming creator with the platform. It’s one of a number of programs to help Black game industry in the wake of this summer’s #BlackLivesMatter unrest and the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. This particular effort addresses streamers and content creators, as opposed to developers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.