Kushnood

Hey, I'm glad it arrived! Thanks so much for your support for COVID relief and I hope you're doing well and staying healthy.

Given it's age, I think you need to smash two rocks together near an outlet to turn it on...

Diversification is key to solid portfolio performance.

Business business business... numbers?

Hey everyone! Kushnood here from the Riot Social Impact team (which we affectionately call "Karma"). We just crested over 100K in donations in the mid-season streamathon (holy guacamole!) and wanted to give some extra information into where the community support will be headed. It can be a bit confusing since we're taking a different type of approach and want to be as transparent as possible!

All money raised is technically going to the Riot Games Social Impact Fund at ImpactAssets. It's a US-based nonprofit that can allow us to distribute grant money internationally. We've got a few questions as to which specific nonprofit we'll be supporting and the answer is ... hundreds all over the world.

Instead of choosing just one, we selected two professionally managed "funds" at ...

We made a minimum "floor" of $40,000 for regions. Meaning, the most voted org, will get $20K and the other two will still get $10K each

There's a couple of factors at play when we try and select nonprofits for these types of campaigns. We first try to use what players tell us is most meaningful and important to them based on their region through surveys and research - we want to make sure that we're picking issues that are important to you all, not just us.

Then there's a whole ton of fun regarding legal, financial, impact and governance evaluation to finalize the selections.

While we look at overhead ratios of nonprofits, we find it doesn't tell the whole story of where an org is, what they're doing, and the impact they're making. Our usual standard is to review 2 - 3 years of financial statements, as well as other factors to determine both the capacity and potential impact of a nonprofit.

Unfortunately, we had a lot of technical limitations with geo-targeting for the voting hub. The voting selections will come up as the native language. I'm sorry, it's not ideal

You're correct - the actual charity pools are based on a proportional basis. We wanted to just make sure that all non-profits are getting a baseline of support

Question for u/CloakOfTheBat: what’s your favorite type of contract to work on and why is it commercial coventure agreements with your pal Kushnood?

Oh, poorly worded on my part - didn't mean you in particular. Saw a lot of negative comments in the thread further down

We've already reached out to International Medical Corps to see how we can support, or if not IMC directly, another great partner to work with in the region. If you're wanting to make a direct impact, there's a lot of good organizations out there you can support (just do a bit of research to make sure they're legit!).

That said, wanted to provide some extra background into our approach to social impact and charity fundraising as it's a bit different than others... For disaster relief, many in this thread have shared that we like to "forward fund" our support for various reasons. Not to say that e...

All proceeds raised will go to the Social Impact Fund and then distributed to international nonprofits. It takes a bit of math, but we calculate the total # sold and then use that for our donation amount!

haha, I remember your name... I had to triple check to make sure I had it correct

Yay you got one! I'm glad it was a nice surprise. :)

As part of our L10 celebration, all Rioters took the day to do something to give back to players. One of those events was a "thank you card room" and Rioters could pop-in and make a thank you note to honor level 5 players.

Don't be sad if you didn't get one though! There were over 5 million summoners' names we pulled. We were busy all day and got through like, 400?

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Adding a few pictures of some of the cards we hung up on the conference room:

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Sadly, we won't be able to get to the millions of you still remaining. But I made a very special thank you for everyone in this sub!

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Were you in my last game?

100% of revenue

Not 100% sure but know it’s on the roadmap. Let me ping and see

I mean, you’ve got mad photoshop skills tho

I’m at this conference now and people are asking, “Wow, how do your players get so engaged?”

My answer: “Oh, they’re not too shy about hiding their opinion...”

Really proud of this community of challenjours

Just to add a bit more context - we try to base all of our social impact "investments" around the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We've done a lot of research into what SDG's are the most important in each region and try make sure we're supporting the causes that matter most in each region.

That's why we saw such a large smattering of different orgs supported as part of ou...

This is world wide and includes Garena numbers. We are handling the payments out to the nonprofits through GlobalGiving so we have a fully auditable trail of where the funds go.