Amazon Smile made MGO $8,100 !

[XDM 40 cal]

For the last few years, I've been shopping on the jungle site using smile and helping MGO with my money. Bought my Holoson 507c from them. I just glad that something good is happing.

[10x25mm]

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/com...greater-impact

Amazon Closing AmazonSmile To Focus Its Philanthropic Giving To Programs With Greater [Left Wing!] Impact
Written by Amazon Staff
January 18, 2023

The company, which ranks among the top corporate philanthropists in the U.S., will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where it can make meaningful change—from building affordable housing to providing access to computer science education for students in underserved communities.
Today we started sending the below email to AmazonSmile customers, and we want to share it here, too:

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.

[Imshootin]

Just read the same e-mail and was going to post it.

The Housing Equity Fund. Everything's about equity these days.

These units will host more than 18,000 moderate- to low-income families.

I wonder if that will be the only determining factors.

[tvhero]

I just posted that in the non firearms discussion a few minutes ago.

[wolfy]

Seen it.
Pretty much everything is going away these days.
Too many government handouts to have a job or actually process real transactions or deal with customers any more.

[XDM 40 cal]

I got the email but open this to see what everyone was thinking about this. I was very surprised to see Amazon would allow MGO to be a charity. Seeing that they are laying off about 18k employees, I'm guessing they are not making as much as they did before 2020.

[oldmann1967]

I got the email but open this to see what everyone was thinking about this. I was very surprised to see Amazon would allow MGO to be a charity. Seeing that they are laying off about 18k employees, I'm guessing they are not making as much as they did before 2020.

I think they are making more money than ever. I think they are spending money elsewhere. Blue Origin has huge building projects at Cape Canaveral right now.

[john.41]

I guess we'll see some belt tightening around here, after our last quarterly check.

[UpNorthWOLF]

Will this help or hurt my ESG score?