How we're supporting our employees, customers, and communities

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Amazon has supported hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations—from global humanitarian efforts and animal welfare groups to school PTAs, hospitals, and more. These organizations received donations from Amazon generated by customers who shopped using AmazonSmile.

With COVID-19 and unemployment spiking, we've already donated delivery services for 6 million meals, totaling 7.4 million pounds of food in more than 25 U.S. cities.

Amazon supports food banks across the U.S., and the world, to deliver shelf-stable groceries to those in need.

Amazon, working with a Seattle catering company, will distribute meals to over 2,700 elderly and medically-vulnerable residents in Seattle and King County over the course of a month.

Award from the Pro Bono Institute recognizes the impact of Amazon Legal's weekly clinics for families working to move out of homelessness.

Mary's Place Family Center—opened at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak—is already saving lives and changing the game for family shelter set-up.

Together, the nonprofit community, Amazon, and our employees, joined to donate $9 million to improve the lives of our most vulnerable community members in the Seattle, WA and Arlington, VA regions.

Amazon recently commissioned a study to explore the timely need for more computer science and STEM education for students from underserved and underrepresented communities to best prepare them for jobs of the future.

In lieu of our annual Bring Your Kids to Work Day, we've worked with authors, illustrators, artists, chefs, and more to bring together dozens of engaging, fun—and even educational—videos and how-tos for kids.

Amazon Future Engineer awards its second class of computer science students with scholarships and guaranteed Amazon internships.

We will be delivering product and monetary donations to charities that support some of the communities hit hardest by the events of this year.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking.

Innovation takes place as a part of everyday work. Everyone at Amazon is a builder, and everyone is here because of their desire to deconstruct, and create, on behalf of our customers.

Supporting our neighbors to keep our community vibrant.

A snapshot of our job creation activities, tax profile, and significant investments in communities across the country.

Amazon Fulfillment’s primary giving is focused on our neighbors in immediate need, particularly families fighting homelessness and hunger. We are also focused on providing resources to the next generation of innovators and helping ignite a lifelong passion for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In addition, we listen to our fulfillment employees’ suggestions for local causes near and dear to their hearts and give to organizations in their local communities that have impact.