L.A. Wildfires: YouTube and Google Donating $15 Million, Meta and Zuckerberg to Give $4 Million to Recovery Orgs
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube, Google and Meta are pitching in to help L.A. recover from the wildfires that have caused devastation across the region and forced thousands to evacuate in the past week.
Google and YouTube are contributing $15 million to L.A.-area relief organizations. Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are making a combined $4 million donation.
The tech companies join others that are giving money to L.A. organizations assisting in the recovery efforts. Those include Disney, Paramount, CAA, Comcast and NBCUniversal, Netflix, Amazon and Warner Bros.
Discovery. YouTube and Google’s donations, made together with the tech giant’s Google.org philanthropic arm, will go to organizations providing immediate relief in L.A., including Emergency Network Los Angeles, American Red Cross and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. “Los Angeles is the heart of entertainment and storytelling and has an impact on culture all over the world,” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan wrote in a blog post Wednesday. “It’s also where many YouTube creators, artists, partners and our employees call home.
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