Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
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#2Is this forever? Why are we just hearing about this now - and from a mallard?
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#3FWIW, I work helping the non-profit site www.thegivingmachine.co.uk. We give 2.25% of purchases tracked through our site from Amazon (plus some other retailers).
We also have a lot of other merchants signed up.
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#4Is this forever? Why are we just hearing about this now - and from a mallard?
Its a really new program - it seems to bea l ong term thing.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131030005299/en/Amaz...
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Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#6Is this forever? Why are we just hearing about this now - and from a mallard?
From a mallard? A duck?
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#7This is fantastic!
To save the most lives, select Against Malaria Foundation as your charity. It's the current top recommendation from Givewell (http://www.givewell.org), an excellent charity evaluation organization. They focus on proven cost-effectiveness and transparency.
AMF can save lives at a rate of $2500 or so per life saved, which vastly outperforms most other giving opportunities, at least if you require a high standard of evidence. Givewell's evaluation of AMF is here: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#8Is this forever? Why are we just hearing about this now - and from a mallard?
From a mallard? A duck?
It showed up, on Reddit, 6 hours ago as a meme, using the Actual Advice Mallard image.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1pu5wh/a_simp...
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#9Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#10Amazon may be making more profit on these purchases, rather than less--utilizing the potent marketing skills of non-profit organizations to direct more dollars to Amazon without Amazon having to pay higher affiliate fees. I'm not an expert, but I think Amazon's affiliate fees can be as high as 10% of the purchase price. 0.5% is a 20x cheaper customer acquisition cost.