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Post by golasalle on May 24, 2018 13:35:53 GMT -5
While pre-ordering the Gola book, it reminded me to post something about the Amazon Smile program. If you are are an Amazon user you can order through Amazon Smile (which is just another way to get into the Amazon site) and for any eligible purchase you make, Amazon will contribute 0.5% of the price to a charitable organization of your choice. La Salle University qualifies and if you register by going to smile.amazon.com and choose La Salle U as your charity, La Salle will get the contribution on your purchases. Only catch is that you have to remember to go to smile.amazon.com when making your Amazon purchases.
Doesn't sound like much, but as a power Amazon user, it adds up. If more and more do it, it is a painless way to give La Salle some money.
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Post by louth on Jun 6, 2021 21:24:14 GMT -5
Reminder about Amazon Smile.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jan 20, 2023 6:52:02 GMT -5
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 20, 2023 9:14:23 GMT -5
The message I received on this didn't say they were reducing their giving, but refocusing their giving. I looked this morning and apparently my Amazon purchases have resulted in $84.43 going to La Salle. All told through this program, La Salle has received $2,245.03 (through November 2022)
Companies can donate where they choose. Instead of being pissed they're discontinuing it, be happy they had it. I don't see my local Wegmans or Best Buy...or any store really...giving me the option to direct a percentage of my purchases to charity.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jan 20, 2023 10:49:17 GMT -5
I can't find anything using the word "refocus." All I see is that the program "didn't have the impact they expected given the cost."
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 20, 2023 12:38:24 GMT -5
this was an email from them. I read it as they are focusing on specific causes and charities rather than having it spread across so many that it has less meaning. Let's face it, less than $2,500 to La Salle over 10 years isn't moving the needle.
Dear customer,
In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to make it easier for customers to support their favorite charities. However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. With so many eligible organizations—more than 1 million globally—our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin.
We are writing to let you know that we plan to wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023. We will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where we’ve seen we can make meaningful change—from building affordable housing to providing access to computer science education for students in underserved communities to using our logistics infrastructure and technology to assist broad communities impacted by natural disasters.
To help charities that have been a part of the AmazonSmile program with this transition, we will be providing them with a one-time donation equivalent to three months of what they earned in 2022 through the program, and they will also be able to accrue additional donations until the program officially closes in February. Once AmazonSmile closes, charities will still be able to seek support from Amazon customers by creating their own wish lists.
As a company, we will continue supporting a wide range of other programs that help thousands of charities and communities across the U.S. For instance:
• Housing Equity Fund: We’re investing $2 billion to build and preserve affordable housing in our hometown communities. In just two years, we’ve provided funding to create more than 14,000 affordable homes—and we expect to build at least 6,000 more in the coming months. These units will host more than 18,000 moderate- to low-income families, many of them with children. In one year alone, our investments have been able to increase the affordable housing stock in communities like Bellevue, Washington and Arlington, Virginia by at least 20%.
• Amazon Future Engineer: We’ve funded computer science curriculum for more than 600,000 students across over 5,000 schools—all in underserved communities. We have plans to reach an additional 1 million students this year. We’ve also provided immediate assistance to 55,000 students in our hometown communities by giving them warm clothes for the winter, food, and school supplies.
• Community Delivery Program: We’ve partnered with food banks in 35 U.S. cities to deliver more than 23 million meals, using our logistics infrastructure to help families in need access healthy food – and we plan to deliver 12 million more meals this year alone. In addition to our delivery services, we’ve also donated 30 million meals in communities across the country.
• Amazon Disaster Relief: We’re using our logistics capabilities, inventory, and cloud technology to provide fast aid to communities affected by natural disasters. For example, we’ve created a Disaster Relief Hub in Atlanta with more than 1 million relief items ready for deployment, our Disaster Relief team has responded to more than 95 natural disasters, and we’ve donated more than 20 million relief products to nonprofits assisting communities on the ground.
• Community Giving: We support hundreds of local nonprofits doing meaningful work in cities where our employees and their families live. For example, each year we donate hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations working to build stronger communities, from youth sport leagues, to local community colleges, to shelters for families experiencing homelessness.
We’ll continue working to make a difference in many ways, and our long-term commitment to our communities remains the same—we’re determined to do every day better for our customers, our employees, and the world at large.
Thank you for being an Amazon customer.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jan 20, 2023 15:16:03 GMT -5
I guess we'll see where their charitable giving is in next year's financials.
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