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Zynga and its players donate $1M to support safe water nonprofit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga.org announced today that the company and its social game players have donated $1 million to support the safe water nonprofit group Water.org.

The contribution from the social game publisher’s charitable arm supports Water.org, which Gary White and actor Matt Damon founded to come up with market-driven, community-oriented ways to give people access to clean water and sanitation. The funds will help deliver a lifetime’s worth of water to more than 40,000 people in Haiti.

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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.