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Amazon smile program2/1/2024 “We are making this company (Amazon) rich - we are,” said Taylor referring to communities of color like hers. Taylor noted the huge disparity between the wealth of Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the small amounts that nonprofits use to try to make their communities healthier and safer. “You haven’t seen my bottom line of impact of these brilliant young men that I have walking on campuses across this country.” The only way for customers to support their selected charitable organization is by shopping at .“You haven’t talked to me,” said Taylor, who founded the Ezekiel Taylor Foundation, which provides scholarships to young Black men from Chicago whose lives have been affected by gun violence. May customers make direct donations to charitable organizations through the AmazonSmile program? The shopping experience is identical to with the added benefit that the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate to the charitable organizations selected by customers. There is no cost to charitable organizations or to AmazonSmile customers. Is there any cost to charitable organizations or to customers? For more information, see Qualifying Purchases in the AmazonSmile Participation Agreement. Recurring Subscribe-and-Save purchases and subscription renewals are not currently eligible. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages. Tens of millions of products on AmazonSmile are eligible for donations. (purchase price for each item is the sale price, excluding shipping, handling, and gift-wrapping fees, taxes, and service charges, and less any rebates, returns, and bad debt) What purchases are eligible for donations? For eligible purchases at AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to the customer’s selected charitable organization. In order to browse or shop at AmazonSmile, customers must first select a charitable organization. When first visiting AmazonSmile, customers are prompted to select a charitable organization from almost one million eligible organizations. Amazon pays all expenses of the AmazonSmile Foundation they are not deducted from the donation amounts generated by purchases on AmazonSmile. In turn, the AmazonSmile Foundation donates those amounts to the charitable organizations selected by our customers. All donation amounts generated by the AmazonSmile program are remitted to the AmazonSmile Foundation. The AmazonSmile Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation created by Amazon to administer the AmazonSmile program. The difference is that when customers shop on AmazonSmile (), the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers.
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