“They certainly never listened to any of the emails that were sent or they never surveyed us," she said. Among her suggestions were allowing users to donate without specifically going to and providing the option to donate when shopping on the Amazon app, something the company eventually allowed. Wagner said she contacted Amazon many times over the years to suggest improvements to the program. Malone said Amazon had notified customers of the program’s end and has no plans to share customer information with nonprofits. Now, she’s concerned that her organization doesn’t know the identity of those customers and wants Amazon to seek permission to share that information with nonprofits. Lauren Wagner, executive director of the Long Island Arts Alliance, based in Patchogue, New York, said she had encouraged the nonprofits she supports to sign up for AmazonSmile. Many nonprofits had promoted AmazonSmile in their own fundraising appeals because the program provided them with a passive revenue stream from Amazon customers. Taylor and other nonprofit founders say they are angry that Amazon didn't give them an earlier warning about the program's end. The company also recently announced that it would lay off 18,000 employees and cut other less profitable parts of its business. He said the move is not a criticism of the nonprofits it supported. After 10 years, he said, it was time to reevaluate the program.
“At the very least, they can be good corporate citizens to pay it forward in the communities that are patronizing them.”Īmazon's decision to end the program was part of a strategic shift to support initiatives that work on a larger scale, like its $2 billion contribution to build affordable housing, said Patrick Malone, a company spokesperson. “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.” “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. Tenisha Taylor says she felt Amazon insulted her Chicago nonprofit's work by saying its program hadn't provided enough of an impact for its charitable beneficiaries. Some of the e-commerce giant's competitors, including Walmart and Target, have their own community donation programs that somewhat resemble AmazonSmile. Join our hosts as they take you in and out of courtrooms in the U.S. Courthouse News’ podcast Sidebar tackles the stories you need to know from the legal world.
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