Amazon.com Inc. offered up HQ2 employee volunteers and $100,000 in education vouchers and school supplies to help roughly 500 Northern Virginia pre-K-12 students gear up for the start of the 2022-23 academic year.
Arlington Housing Corp. worked with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its 90 employee volunteers to set up a free back-to-school shopping event for families who live in the nonprofit affordable housing developer’s Northern Virginia rental communities — an effort to “eliminate barriers to learning, and let them express their individual style,” said Andrea Muscadin, Amazon’s head of partnerships.
Amazon provided each student with a $150 voucher to use for back-to-school shopping on the company’s e-commerce platform, said company spokeswoman Hayley Richard. Students also could select $50 worth of school supplies, including composition notebooks, scissors, pens, pencils, crayons, folders, rulers, headphones, calculators, markers, highlighters and erasers. They also received…
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