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sheshe2

(98,076 posts) Mon Dec 22, 2014, 06:57 PM Dec 2014

Apple CEO Tim Cook Donates Big Bucks to HRC [View all]

Apple chief Tim Cook sent $8.5 million to the HRC for a project that focuses on LGBT rights in the South.

Having come out publicly back in October, Apple's CEO Tim Cook, the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO, has decided to give back in the grandest of ways.

Cook has donated $8.5 million to the Human Rights Campaign's Project One America effort, which focuses on advancing LGBT rights in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

"Thanks to his generous personal financial investment in the program, together we will move the needle forward at the local and state level, tearing down misconceptions and providing concrete protections for those who need it most," HRC president Chad Griffin wrote in a blog post announcing the donation last week.

Cook, who grew up in southern Alabama and attended Auburn University, has previously said his home state was moving "too slow on equality for the LGBT community." A bill to prohibit discrimination against LGBT Alabamians will likely be named after Cook when it is introduced in the legislature by state representative Patricia Todd next year.

http://www.advocate.com/lgbt/2014/12/20/apple-ceo-tom-cook-makes-substantial-donation-hrc-0

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donates Big Bucks to HRC [View all] sheshe2 Dec 2014 OP

Oops! I assumed that meant Hillary Clinton arcane1 Dec 2014 #1

I figured many people would sheshe2 Dec 2014 #2

You could edit your headline to include Human Rights Campaign, unless your intent was to mislead Electric Monk Dec 2014 #8

No... I was not misleading sheshe2 Dec 2014 #9

Especially on DU, when one reads "HRC" the first thing that comes to mind is Hillary Rodham Clinton Electric Monk Dec 2014 #10

Just stop it! sheshe2 Dec 2014 #11

Not to me it didn't.. I didn't even think of Hillary when reading the OP. Cha Dec 2014 #17

I was talking about the headline, not the content of the OP. See reply #1 as well. nt Electric Monk Dec 2014 #18

Okay then.. I didn't even think of Hillary when reading The Headline. Cha Dec 2014 #19

I thought of Hillary, too. SMC22307 Dec 2014 #23

I did, too! Odin2005 Dec 2014 #13

Me too! So glad I clicked to read the OP rather City Lights Dec 2014 #14

Here is a person who puts his money where his mouth is. Thinkingabout Dec 2014 #3

I'm kind of lukewarm about the HRC... joeybee12 Dec 2014 #4

Wow... Good on Tim Cook.. Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi are fortunate to have him looking Cha Dec 2014 #5

It is a big deal Cha. sheshe2 Dec 2014 #6

To Human Rights.. all across the World, she Cha Dec 2014 #7

OMG! sheshe2 Dec 2014 #15

Haha.. well I know who Tim Cook is and Human Rights Campaign.. figured those two might Cha Dec 2014 #16

But.....but sheshe2 Dec 2014 #20

There's been so many issues where the Human Rights Campaign have come into service for Cha Dec 2014 #21

I love when you talk to yourself in the form of Cha. SMC22307 Dec 2014 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author Odin2005 Dec 2014 #12

Greenwashing. This company uses slave labor in China to build their products. Scuba Dec 2014 #24

8.5 million dollars? Boreal Dec 2014 #25

nice merrily Dec 2014 #26