Apple, Employees Raise $50M for Charity, Matching Program Expands Worldwide
Starting today, Apple will begin expanding the matching gift program for employees to every country in which the company is present, instead of only the US and Canada, and a few other countries it had already rolled out earlier this year, Mercury News reports. "Apple believes deeply in leaving the world better than we found...
Apple Donates $1.6 Million Towards Earthquake Relief in China
Following the major earthquake that killed 615 people and renders thousands more homeless, Yunnan Province on August 3, Apple has made a donation of $1.6 million (10 million Yuan) for earthquake-relief efforts in the area. The earthquake was the most powerful to hit the province in 14 years, and struck Zhaotong city hardest. Apple CEO...
Apple Joins SF Gives’ Anti-Poverty Initiative by Donating $500,000
Apple has donated half a million dollars to the anti-poverty initiative SF Gives, Fortune reports. The company contributed to the initiative of the CEO’s of Salesforce and non-profit Tipping Point, respectively Marc Benioff and Daniel Lurie, who have set the bar high early in March: to have 20 businesses contribute $500,000 each in order to...