Editing IKEA (section)

===IKEA Social Initiative===
In September 2005, IKEA Social Initiative was formed to manage the company's social involvement on a global level. IKEA Social Initiative is headed by Marianne Barner.<ref>{{cite web |title=Social initiatives |url=https://ikeamuseum.com/en/digital/the-story-of-ikea/social-initiatives/ |access-date=1 June 2022 |website=IKEA Museum|archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705193337/https://ikeamuseum.com/en/digital/the-story-of-ikea/social-initiatives/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The main partners of IKEA Social Initiative are UNICEF<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/corporate_partners/index_25092.html|title=UNICEF's corporate partnerships|publisher=Unicef.org|access-date=26 December 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225143122/http://www.unicef.org/corporate_partners/index_25092.html|archive-date=25 February 2011}}</ref> and [[Save the Children]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/corporate/corp_ikea/ikea_index3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816184854/http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/corporate/corp_ikea/ikea_index3.html|url-status=dead|title=IKEA and IKEA Foundation {{pipe}} Save the Children International|archive-date=16 August 2009}}</ref>

On 23 February 2009, at the [[ECOSOC]] event in New York, UNICEF announced that IKEA Social Initiative has become the agency's largest corporate partner, with total commitments of more than US$180{{nbsp}}million (£281,079,000).<ref>UNICEF (23 February 2009) [http://www.unicef.org/media/media_48176.html IKEA social initiative adds $48{{nbsp}}million to UNICEF's child health programme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210192048/http://www.unicef.org/media/media_48176.html |date=10 February 2011 }}</ref><ref>Reuters India (23 February 2009) [http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-38166220090223 Ikea gives UNICEF $48 mln to fight India child labour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818013839/http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-38166220090223 |date=18 August 2009 }}</ref>

Examples of involvements:
* The IKEA Social Initiative contributes €1 (£1.73) to UNICEF and [[Save the Children]] from each soft toy sold during the holiday seasons, raising a total of €16.7{{nbsp}}million (£28.91{{nbsp}}million) so far.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyroses.com/Health/IKEA-Soft-Toy-campaign|title=UNICEF: IKEA Soft Toy campaign raises €5.4{{nbsp}}million for education projects|access-date=27 May 2016|archive-date=9 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409010516/http://www.ivyroses.com/Health/IKEA-Soft-Toy-campaign|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2013, an IKEA soft toy, [[Lufsig]], created a storm and sold out in Hong Kong and in Southern China because it had been misnamed in Chinese.<ref name="20131210mcbain">McBain, Sophie (10 December 2013). [http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2013/12/how-lufsig-cuddly-wolf-became-hong-kong-protest-symbol "How Lufsig the cuddly wolf became a Hong Kong protest symbol – A short lesson in the art of mistranslating names into Chinese."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130153502/http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2013/12/how-lufsig-cuddly-wolf-became-hong-kong-protest-symbol |date=30 November 2016 }} ''The New Statesman''.</ref>
* The IKEA Social Initiative provided soft toys to children in Burma after [[Cyclone Nargis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/ikea-provides-soft-toys-children-cyclone-affected-myanmar |title=Save the Children: Ikea Provides Soft Toys to Children in Cyclone-Affected Myanmar |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216080153/http://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/ikea-provides-soft-toys-children-cyclone-affected-myanmar |archive-date=16 February 2015 }}</ref>
* Starting in June 2009, for every Sunnan solar-powered lamp sold in IKEA stores worldwide, IKEA Social Initiative will donate one Sunnan with the help of UNICEF.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS99995+21-Jul-2009+PRN20090721 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20100122084116/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS99995+21-Jul-2009+PRN20090721 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 January 2010 |title=Reuters / PR Newswire: Sunny News: IKEA and UNICEF Lighten Up Children's Lives in the Developing World |date=21 July 2009 }}</ref>
* In September 2011,<ref>{{cite web|author=UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency (Thailand) |url=http://unhcr.or.th/news/general/727 |title=Ikea Foundation gives UNHCR US$62{{nbsp}}million for Somali refugees in Kenya {{pipe}} UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency (Thailand) |publisher=UNHCR |date=2 September 2011 |access-date=28 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611182505/http://www.unhcr.or.th/news/general/727 |archive-date=11 June 2012 }}</ref> the IKEA Foundation pledged to donate $62{{nbsp}}million to help Somali refugees in Kenya.<ref name="TNY" />
* According to ''[[The Economist]]'', however, IKEA's charitable giving is meager, "barely a rounding error in the foundation's assets".<ref name="TNY" />

In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, [[Sveriges Television|SVT]], revealed that IKEA's money—the three per cent collection from each store—does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said. Inter IKEA is owned by a foundation in [[Liechtenstein]], called Interogo, which has amassed $12{{nbsp}}billion (£18{{nbsp}}billion), and is controlled by the Kamprad family.<ref name="TNY" />