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          <h1 class="title">Apple Accepting Donations for Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts</h1>
          <div class="byline">Sunday August 27, 2017 8:28 am PDT by <a class="author-url" href="//www.macrumors.com/author/mitchel-broussard/">Mitchel Broussard</a></div>
          <div class="content">Apple has added banners to its <a href="https://www.apple.com/">United States website</a> and iTunes Store in an effort to encourage its customers to <a href="https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/buyCharityGiftWizard">donate</a> to those affected by Hurricane Harvey.
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Similar to past relief efforts, users can choose to donate &#36;5, &#36;10, &#36;25, &#36;50, &#36;100, or &#36;200, and Apple will transfer 100 percent of the proceeds to the American Red Cross, which is providing relief efforts for people in the path of Hurricane Harvey. All donations will be processed as normal iTunes purchases through a connected Apple ID.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted about the donations early this morning, as rescue workers in Houston and other parts of southeast Texas attempt to help residents trapped in their homes by "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/us/harvey-landfall/index.html">catastrophic flooding</a>." Harvey made landfall late Friday night as a Category 4 hurricane and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, which is expected to stay in the region over the next few days.
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<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Prayers for Texas and all those affected by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvey?src=hash">#HurricaneHarvey</a>. Join us in the relief effort by donating: <a href="https://t.co/QLBMFOjaDG">https://t.co/QLBMFOjaDG</a></p>&mdash; Tim Cook (@tim_cook) <a href="https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/901791855108530176">August 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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                <div class="date">24 weeks ago</div>
                <div class="content">I don&#39;t trust the Red Cross no thanks. It will go into the pocketbook of the CEO probably.</div>
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                <div class="username"><a href="//forums.macrumors.com/posts/24937110">Arran</a></div>
                <div class="date">24 weeks ago</div>
                <div class="content">At least Apple&#39;s doing something on the front page of its website.<br/>
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I had a look at other companies websites to see what they&#39;re doing:<br/>
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* Microsoft - nothing<br/>
* Google - nothing<br/>
* Amazon - nothing<br/>
* Visa - nothing<br/>
* MasterCard - nothing<br/>
* American Express - nothing<br/>
* Target - nothing<br/>
* Walmart - nothing<br/>
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Wow.<br/>
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Now, remember that Houston is the oil capital of the US, with no less than 25 <i>Fortune 500</i> companies headquartered there.  Surely they&#39;d step up and offer web resources to help their local community organize and recover?  Wouldn&#39;t you think?  (Self interest, if nothing else.)<br/>
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So I checked the websites for the ten largest Houston corporations (the number below in bold is their Fortune 500 ranking). These are big, multinational, oil-rich players who pump money out of the ground 24x7:<br/>
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* <b>4</b> Phillips 66 (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_66&#39;)<br/>
* <b>45</b> ConocoPhillips (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillips&#39;)<br/>
* <b>64</b> Enterprise Products Partners (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Products&#39;)<br/>
* <b>65</b> Sysco (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysco&#39;)<br/>
* <b>77</b> Plains All American Pipeline (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_All_American_Pipeline&#39;)<br/>
* <b>106</b> Halliburton (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton&#39;)<br/>
* <b>135</b> Baker Hughes (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Hughes&#39;)<br/>
* <b>144</b> National Oilwell Varco (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oilwell_Varco&#39;)<br/>
* <b>167</b> Apache (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Corporation&#39;)<br/>
* <b>174</b> Marathon Oil (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Oil&#39;)<br/>
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Nothing.<br/>
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So well done Apple.  Thinking different indeed.</div>
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                <div class="content">Before I donate, anyone know ther percentage the Red Cross actually gives out of every dollar?</div>
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                <div class="date">24 weeks ago</div>
                <div class="content">Donated directly to non profit organization. No need to donate to rc.</div>
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                <div class="date">24 weeks ago</div>
                <div class="content"><p class="quote">Before I donate, anyone know ther percentage the Red Cross actually gives out of every dollar?</p>
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Red Cross is pretty good, not perfect at 90%: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&#38;orgid=3277<br/>
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                <div class="content">Thanks for the help. I canât describe how devastating the flooding is in Houston. Most went to bed last night thinking we survived Harvey just fine but then it started raining. So a lot of us were surprised to find water in our houses when we woke up! Some one posted we got a years worth in 24 hours!</div>
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                <div class="date">24 weeks ago</div>
                <div class="content"><p class="quote">didn&#39;t Texas people had enough time to evacuate its a no from me</p>
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NO, they did not.  Harvey was originally expected to make landfall as a category 1.  He spun up more quickly than anyone expected:  people went to bed Thursday night expecting a category 1, and when they got up on Friday, he was a category 3, and increased to 4 just prior to landfall.<br/>
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Posting from just outside of Austin.</div>
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                <div class="date">24 weeks ago</div>
                <div class="content">Hmmm.... how about good ole Timmy just helps by about 20 million or so from that Apple offshore account? Red Cross is not for me, I&#39;d donate to the church who is sending a truck up there with supplies.</div>
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                <div class="content">Ok but does the donor certificate come in space grey?</div>
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                <div class="date">24 weeks ago</div>
                <div class="content"><p class="quote">At least Apple&#39;s doing something on the front page of its website.<br/>
<br/>
I had a look at other companies websites to see what they&#39;re doing:<br/>
<br/>
* Microsoft - nothing<br/>
* Google - nothing<br/>
* Amazon - nothing<br/>
* Visa - nothing<br/>
* MasterCard - nothing<br/>
* American Express - nothing<br/>
* Target - nothing<br/>
* Walmart - nothing<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Wow.<br/>
<br/>
Now, remember that Houston is the oil capital of the US, with no less than 25 <i>Fortune 500</i> companies headquartered there.  Surely they&#39;d step up and offer web resources to help their local community organize and recover?  Wouldn&#39;t you think?  (Self interest, if nothing else.)<br/>
 <br/>
So I checked the websites for the ten largest Houston corporations (the number below in bold is their Fortune 500 ranking). These are big, multinational, oil-rich players who pump money out of the ground 24x7:<br/>
<br/>
* <b>4</b> Phillips 66 (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_66&#39;)<br/>
* <b>45</b> ConocoPhillips (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillips&#39;)<br/>
* <b>64</b> Enterprise Products Partners (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Products&#39;)<br/>
* <b>65</b> Sysco (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysco&#39;)<br/>
* <b>77</b> Plains All American Pipeline (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_All_American_Pipeline&#39;)<br/>
* <b>106</b> Halliburton (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton&#39;)<br/>
* <b>135</b> Baker Hughes (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Hughes&#39;)<br/>
* <b>144</b> National Oilwell Varco (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oilwell_Varco&#39;)<br/>
* <b>167</b> Apache (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Corporation&#39;)<br/>
* <b>174</b> Marathon Oil (&#39;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Oil&#39;)<br/>
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Nothing.<br/>
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So well done Apple.  Thinking different indeed.</p>
Just beacuase they haven&#39;t stuck something on their websites, it doesn&#39;t mean they haven&#39;t done anything.</div>
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