Amazon's charity program, Amazon Smile, announced just a week ago on Jan. 18 that the program would shut down, with an official end date of Feb. 20.

Amazon is ending a charity donation program it ran for a decade in its latest cost-cutting move. In a blog post on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, the company said the program, called AmazonSmile, will ...

Amazon is shutting down its AmazonSmile charity amid broader cost cuts and mass layoffs The shuttering of the decade-old initiative will come as a blow to smaller charities that benefited from it.

Amazon Smile allowed buyers to designate 0.5 percent of their purchase to a charity on Amazon’s list of approved groups.

Since its establishment, the charity has been Amazon's long-standing commitment to positive change. Some of Amazon's global revenue went into funding organizations associated with Smile.

Amazon is shutting down its “Smile” charity donation program as the company cuts costs and rethinks its strategy.

Amazon is calling it quits with AmazonSmile. After beginning its latest round of layoffs that cut thousands of jobs, Amazon announced Wednesday it plans to shut down its charity donation program.

Through Amazon Smile, the charity explained, Amazon would give the organization one half of 1 percent of the total purchase price of whatever I buy. This is not the first pitch I’ve gotten from ...