{"id":4305,"date":"2020-04-17T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/11\/apple-is-donating-product-red-proceeds-to-covid-19-response-efforts\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:15:00","slug":"apple-is-donating-product-red-proceeds-to-covid-19-response-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/17\/apple-is-donating-product-red-proceeds-to-covid-19-response-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is donating Product Red proceeds to COVID-19 response efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/kIDECs1xrLRGUhULGHz22VPIBJc=\/188x0:2336x1432\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66658763\/Screen_Shot_2020_04_15_at_4.13.10_PM.0.png\" width=\"477\" height=\"318\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/kIDECs1xrLRGUhULGHz22VPIBJc=\/188x0:2336x1432\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66658763\/Screen_Shot_2020_04_15_at_4.13.10_PM.0.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/kIDECs1xrLRGUhULGHz22VPIBJc=\/188x0:2336x1432\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66658763\/Screen_Shot_2020_04_15_at_4.13.10_PM.0.png\" \/><\/span><small>Image: Apple<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Apple will donate a portion of sales from&nbsp;Product Red&nbsp;products to a COVID-19 relief fund, the company announced today. Product Red donations normally go toward fighting HIV\/AIDS, but the organization has started directing money toward COVID-19 responses in light of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Now through September 30th, the tech giant will distribute some of the proceeds from the sale of Product Red gadgets and accessories to the Global Fund&rsquo;s COVID-19 Response. This includes Apple accessories, like Apple Watch bands or iPhone cases, and iPhones, including the Product Red color variant of the&nbsp;recently announced iPhone SE, which is slated to launch on April 24th.<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>Apple said this new program will &ldquo;provide critical support in health systems&rdquo;<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Product Red is an ongoing partnership between Red and major companies, like Apple, Nike, and Starbucks, to raise funds, spread awareness, and eradicate HIV\/AIDS in African countries. However, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple said this new program will &ldquo;provide critical support in health systems&rdquo; that are impacted by the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018,&nbsp;Apple said it had raised $200 million for Product Red&nbsp;and that it was the organization&rsquo;s largest corporate donor. Apple does not say how much money it redirects from each sale to the charity.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has taken several actions to help address the pandemic, including&nbsp;partnering with Google&nbsp;to develop a contact tracking system for iOS and Android devices, which will&nbsp;share data through Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/15\/21222717\/apple-product-red-coronavirus-donations-announced\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/15\/21222717\/apple-product-red-coronavirus-donations-announced<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Taylor Lyles<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Taylor Lyles<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Apple Apple will donate a portion of sales from&nbsp;Product Red&nbsp;products to a COVID-19 relief fund, the company announced today. Product Red donations normally go toward fighting HIV\/AIDS, but the organization has started directing money toward COVID-19 responses in light of the pandemic. Now through September 30th, the tech giant will distribute some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/17\/apple-is-donating-product-red-proceeds-to-covid-19-response-efforts\/\">Continue reading <span>Apple is donating Product Red proceeds to COVID-19 response efforts<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/17\/apple-is-donating-product-red-proceeds-to-covid-19-response-efforts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple is donating Product Red proceeds to COVID-19 response efforts - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/17\/apple-is-donating-product-red-proceeds-to-covid-19-response-efforts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple is donating Product Red proceeds to COVID-19 response efforts - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image: Apple Apple will donate a portion of sales from&nbsp;Product Red&nbsp;products to a COVID-19 relief fund, the company announced today. 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