Riot Games Sentinels of Light charitable effort.
Riot Games Sentinels of Light charitable effort.
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Riot Games’ social impact report details efforts to make charities more resilient

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games released its social impact report today to detail the efforts it undertook in 2021 to help charities become more resilient in the midst of the pandemic.

The report said that during 2021, Riot held its largest in-game fundraiser in the League of Legends universe to date, Sentinels of Light, where players raised $5.8 million for the Social Impact Fund, and 30
nonprofits nominated by players from 18 different countries were selected to each receive a $10,000 grant.

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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.