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| A Painfree New Way To Give To Charity:
iGive.com Just shop online at the shop.iGive mall; part of every purchase goes to your favorite cause, and you don't pay a cent extra! How would you like it if a portion of every purchase you made at your local shopping mall went to the charity of your choice? At http://www.iGive.com, you can do just thatwithout even getting in your car. It's easy! Just make a purchase from any of the "stores" in iGive's virtual mall. You can choose from J. Crew, Avon and L'eggs as well as leading online purveyors of books, music, movies, toys, office supplies, sports equipment and even playthings for your dog. As much as 12 percent of every purchase goes to whatever charity you specify, whether it's your neighborhood PTO, a local animal shelter, or the American Cancer Society. You don't pay a penny extra because the charitable donations come out of the finder's fee iGive receives for bringing its merchants online business. (The precise percentage donated to your cause depends on that fee.) The charities don't pay a thing, eitherand they save money on fundraising in the bargain. It works! Since its inception in 1997, iGive members have raised nearly $300,000 for over 4,400 not-for-profit organizations, making iGive the first cyber-charity to have disbursed funds. iGive writes checks monthly to every cause with more than $10 in its account. Beneficiaries have included a college ministry that raised money to send a mission group to Nicaragua, an organization that feeds needy families, a support group for people with pituitary tumors, a missing children's organization that used iGive donations to help purchase video tape for distributing missing children's photos on TV, and many more. |
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