Riot Games held a 7-week program for Girls Who Code at its headquarters.
Riot Games held a 7-week program for Girls Who Code at its headquarters.
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Riot Games details its social impact giving for 2019

Riot Games’ Social Impact Fund has given $8 million in grants to date to nonprofits that its League of Legends players care about, according to the company’s 2019 social impact report.

Riot Games said earlier in 2019 that it would join an $18 million campaign to increase the number of women of color in tech, and as part of that effort it would host a seven-week Girls Who Code program on campus. More than 70% of the women at Riot’s headquarters volunteered to be part of that program.

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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.