Slack, Away CEOs Aim to Raise $2 Million for Abortion Funds
The companies’ chief executives join the fray of prominent figures raising money for abortion-related groups.
Volunteer clinic escorts wait near demonstrators outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021.
Photographer: Luke Sharrett/BloombergThe heads of Slack Technologies Inc. and luggage start-up brand Away are joining major companies in supporting abortion-related causes.
Jen Rubio, co-founder and chief executive of JRSK Inc. — which operates as Away — said she and husband Stewart Butterfield, who leads Slack, will match up to $1 million in donations to the National Network of Abortion Fund. The fundraiser, which kicked off on June 29, will be carried out through the couple’s David C. Butterfield and Alfonso D. Rubio Memorial Foundation.