
Housing Equity Fund: We’re investing $2 billion to build and preserve affordable housing in our hometown communities. Once AmazonSmile closes, charities will still be able to seek support from Amazon customers by creating their own wish lists.Īs a company, we will continue supporting a wide range of other programs that help thousands of charities and communities across the U.S. 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. 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. We are writing to let you know that we plan to wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023. With so many eligible organizations-more than 1 million globally-our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin. However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped.
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