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 Amazon.com Names 10 Nonprofit Innovation Award Finalists
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Barbara Buell, Stanford Graduate
School of Business News Office. Phone: 650-723-1771; Fax: 650-725-6750; Email:
buell_barbara@gsb.stanford.edu
FOR COMMENT: Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director, Center
for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Phone:
650-725-9419; Email: deiglmeier_kriss@gsb.stanford.edu
July 19, 2005
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Amazon.com, Inc. today
announced the 10 nonprofit organizations that are finalists for the
Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award. This award is designed to
recognize and reward nonprofits whose innovative approaches and
breakthrough solutions most effectively improve their communities or the
world at large. Amazon.com, in partnership with the Center for Social
Innovation at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a
panel of expert advisors, selected the 10 finalists. These organizations
will be featured on Amazon.com website through September 30, 2005, and
customers can vote for their favorites by making contributions at
www.amazon.com/nonprofitinnovation.
Each of the finalist organizations will retain the contributions they
receive, and the organization with the largest total dollar amount of donations
will be awarded a matching grant of up to $1 million from Amazon.
“In screening for the finalists, our goal was to select organizations that
were doing innovative work in areas with significant unmet needs,” said James A.
Phills, Jr., co-director of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford
Graduate School of Business. We hope that this award will support the work of
those engaged in creative efforts to solve important social problems.”
“Good ideas change the world,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.
“We are very proud of these 10 organizations that are using innovation and
creativity to help others.”
Amazon received almost 1,000 award submissions, and the 10 finalists cover a
broad spectrum of groups—both large and small—including those that focus on
literacy, health care, and developing places for children to play.
The 10 Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award Finalists are:
Appalachian Sustainable Development (Abingdon, VA)
ASD builds
self-reliant, ecologically sustainable communities in Central Appalachia by
providing training and market access for farmers and other limited-resource
entrepreneurs, and by linking them to consumers.
Community Voice Mail (Seattle, WA)
Community Voice Mail provides free,
24-hour nationwide voice mail to people in crisis—connecting them to jobs,
housing and hope—a deceptively simple concept with extraordinary impact.
DonorsChoose (New York, NY)
DonorsChoose is a marketplace where teachers and
individuals connect to give at-risk students the resources they need to learn.
EARN (San Francisco, CA)
EARN offers breakthrough financial tools that
open the door to economic opportunity for the working poor in California,
providing a model for ending the cycle of poverty on a national and global
scale.
First Book (Washington, DC)
First Book is a nationally recognized
nonprofit that puts high-quality, new books into the hands of children from
low-income families.
KaBOOM! (Washington, DC)
By bringing together community leaders, parents
and volunteers, KaBOOM! seeks to create a great play space within walking
distance of every child in America.
KickStart (San Francisco, CA)
KickStart provides a proven solution to
poverty in Africa by focusing on economic empowerment rather than traditional
aid.
Pact, Inc.’s WORTH program (Washington, DC)
Pact’s WORTH program drives
gender equality and women’s economic empowerment worldwide through a unique
combination of literacy training, women-owned village banks and micro-enterprise
creation.
PATH (Seattle, WA)
PATH is a catalyst for global health, creating
sustainable, culturally relevant solutions that enable communities worldwide to
break longstanding cycles of poor health.
Teach For America (New York, NY)
Teach For America is the national corps
of outstanding recent college graduates from all academic majors who fight
educational inequity by teaching in urban and rural public schools and becoming
lifelong leaders for change.
Profiles of each of the 10 nonprofit finalist organizations are available at
www.amazon.com/nonprofitinnovation, where customers and visitors can make
direct online contributions to one or more of their favorite organizations.
Donations will be accepted through September 30, 2005, and the organization that
receives the most in total contributions from Amazon customers will be awarded
the 2005 Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award, along with a matching grant of
up to $1 million from Amazon.
The 10 finalists were selected by a panel of judges that included sports
legend and humanitarian, Muhammad Ali; former United States Secretary of State,
Dr. Henry Kissinger; Téa Leoni, actress and National Ambassador to the U.S. Fund
for UNICEF; Dr. Lawrance M. Bernabo, one of Amazon.com’s leading customer
reviewers; Jeff Bradach, managing partner and co-founder of leading U.S.
nonprofit consulting firm The Bridgespan Group; James A. Phills, Jr.,
co-director of the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, and Jeff Bezos.
The 2005 honoree will be announced in October 2005.
About the Center for Social Innovation
The Stanford Graduate School of Business developed the Center for Social
Innovation to foster innovative solutions to social problems by enhancing the
leadership, management, and organization capacity of individuals and
institutions pursuing the creation of social and environmental value. The Center
dissolves traditional sector boundaries by bringing together nonprofit leaders,
corporate executives, government officials, and philanthropists to discuss,
debate, analyze, and take action to strengthen communities. The center’s core
activities—research, teaching and community engagement focus on many thematic
areas including corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship,
environmental sustainability, philanthropy, education, and nonprofit management.
website: www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi/
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on
the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.
Amazon.com seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers
can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to
offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers
offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as
health and personal care, jewelry and watches, gourmet food, sports and
outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics and office,
toys and baby, and home and garden.
Amazon.com and its affiliates operate seven retail websites: www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.ca
and www.joyo.com.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's
expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
that include, among others, risks related to potential future losses,
significant amount of indebtedness, competition, management of growth, potential
fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal
proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial
agreements, acquisitions, and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates,
system interruption, consumer trends, inventory, limited operating history,
government regulation and taxation, fraud, and new business areas. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial
results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2004, and all subsequent filings.
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