{"id":2267,"date":"2011-09-26T03:58:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2011-09-26T03:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T03:58:23","slug":"apple-donates-first-generation-ipads-to-teach-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":"Apple Donates First Generation iPads to Teach For America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/20\/apple-finds-a-use-for-some-of-those-first-generation-ipads\/\">According to CNN<\/a>, Apple has shipped more than nine thousand refurbished iPads to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachforamerica.org\/\">Teach For America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Teach For America, a nonprofit organization based in New York, plans to distribute the tablets to teachers nationwide for classroom use.<\/p>\n<p>Cook mentioned Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kick off a matching gift program for charitable donations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d within an internal memo earlier this month. He confirmed that Apple would be matching employee donations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c up to $10,000 per individual.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the first generation Apple slates were shipped from Apple to 38 states where Teach For America programs are operated.<\/p>\n<p>The units were donated by customers who upgraded to the iPad 2 and chose to donate their old devices to the charitable program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, Apple has shipped more than nine thousand refurbished iPads to Teach For America. Teach For America, a nonprofit organization based in New York, plans to distribute the tablets to teachers nationwide for classroom use. Cook mentioned Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kick off a matching gift program for charitable donations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d within an internal memo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}