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Apple donation (lemmy.basedcount.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 227 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

The first time I looked into this, I thought it was fake, but turns out I was checking the wrong year.

2023: $250–$499
2022: $1,000–$4,999
2021: $1,000–$4,999
2020: $250–$499
2019: $1,000–$4,999
2018: $1,000–$4,999

I appreciate them donating at all, but that's about the price of one Macbook per year - my girlfriend's most recent Macbook was $5,500

Edit: It looks like these donations may come from Apple matching donations (pdf warning)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

Yeah the matching donations was the obvious answer. It's honestly a decent way to do charity as a company (obviously bigger ticket contributions are good, too), because it rewards them for their choices by increasing their value, and your contributions are going places that have some support behind them from your employees. Finding worthwhile causes that don't get money has value, but it's really hard and expensive to do.

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