Use Amazon Smile

[Anti Federalist]

Pick Jeff Bezos' pocket to support gun rights.

From an email today:

Dear Anti Federalist,

This is the quarterly notification to inform you that AmazonSmile has made a charitable donation to the charity you’ve selected, Gun Owners Foundation, in the amount of $31,691.11 as a result of qualifying purchases made by you and other customers who have selected this charity.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=%2F

[Matt Collins]

I use it to support National Foundation for Gun Rights:

https://gunrightsfoundation.org/

[Anti Federalist]

I use it to support National Foundation for Gun Rights:

https://gunrightsfoundation.org/

Cool, that was not available when I signed up.

The GOA foundation was the only gun rights one listed that I saw.

https://www.gunowners.com/

[JohnCifelli1]

Wtf are you buying that has a 35k kickback??

[JohnCifelli1]

Oh you and others lol

[Anti Federalist]

Wtf are you buying that has a 35k kickback??

LOL yeah wish it been just me.

[shakey1]

Been doing this for the GOA for a while... from your thread a year or so ago... info good to know.

[Danke]

https://smile.amazon.com/dankeswaywardwomen

[oyarde]

I never use amazon for anything but I did see where they had been stealing 13 a month from my checking account where I must have bought something on accident and they signed me in for the prime membership. I got it back but I'd still like to get even .

[tebowlives]

Your current charity. Mises Institute has received $58,351.42 as of June 2021

I wonder if there is a way to verify this?

[Michael Landon]

Been doing this for the GOA for a while... from your thread a year or so ago... info good to know.

Me too.

- ML

[Matt Collins]

Your current charity. Mises Institute has received $58,351.42 as of June 2021

I wonder if there is a way to verify this?

go to www.guidestar.org and pull the Mises 990 financial reports

[Anti Federalist]

From an email I received from Amazon on 19 Jan 2023.


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.

[Anti Federalist]

Not enough people signing up to support woke alphabet advocacy groups I reckon.

[sparebulb]

Not enough people signing up to support woke alphabet advocacy groups I reckon.

Kind of sounds something like: "After further review, you people aren't directing your money to woke causes that we like, so we will just cut you out of the decision-maing process and use your money as we see fit."

[TheTexan]

Kind of sounds something like: "After further review, you people aren't directing your money to woke causes that we like, so we will just cut you out of the decision-maing process and use your money as we see fit."

That is pretty much exactly what they are saying, yes.

[Occam's Banana]

Kind of sounds something like: "After further review, you people aren't directing your money to woke causes that we like, so we will just cut you out of the decision-maing process and use your money as we see fit."

They aren't really making it a secret that they're not best pleased with the allocations - but change "and use your money as we see fit" to "and use our money as we see fit". The point of the program was to attract buyers by letting them tell Amazon where to allocate a portion of its revenue from each sale - at which point, the money no longer belongs to the buyers, but to Amazon. As disappointed as we may be, ending the program isn't going to deprive us (or our preferred donees) of anything to which we are entitled.