On January 6, 2020, Apple Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against the shareholder proposal of National Center for Public Policy Research requesting the company provide an annual report, omitting proprietary information and at reasonable cost, disclosing: the company’s standards for choosing recipients of company assets in the form of charitable contributions; the business rationale and purpose for each of the charitable contributions, if any; personnel participating in the decision to contribute; the benefits to society at-large produced by company contributions; and a follow-up report confirming the contribution was used for the purpose stated in the upcoming annual meeting of shareholders to be held on February 28, 2017.