Tim Sweeney, fighting for openness in the App Store and protecting forests in North Carolina:
Sweeney strives to protect large swaths of land with high conservation value before developers get possession. In 2016, he donated 7,000 acres of forest east of Asheville to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2021, he gifted 7,500 acres near the Avery-Mitchell county border to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. That year, he also teamed with conservation groups to preserve a two-mile coastal barrier south of Topsail Island.