#Eating question
It seems Amazon is running a new program where they donate 0.5% of each of your purchases to a charity. They have some featured ones, but I'm trying to figure out if the H.O.P.E. project that Martavious was working with is one of the smaller ones that you can choose from. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of charities that use the word Hope in their name. The closest I can find is one based out of Elon, NC. I'm guessing that isn't the right one, but if anyone has some info to help sort this out, that would be great.
Good idea. I didn't know there were so many charities, I thought the featured ones were the ones you had to pick.
Pretty sure that's not them, though the Elon charity is using the same acronym. You should email them to ask them to sign themselves up if they don't see this post.
Just FYI, this is not a new program. I've been using Amazon Smile for more than a year. But good to get the word out there.
Thanks for the info. This is just the first time I've seen it pop up on my account.
March 10th, 2015 at 12:01 AM ^
I have a few things I am going to be buying on Amazon before summer hits, I will wait to see if they get signed up.
March 10th, 2015 at 12:11 AM ^
I'm pretty sure the "buy stuff at amazon" link at the top of this page is a similar link for supporting mgoblog fyi, while maybe not a charity...
March 10th, 2015 at 12:16 AM ^
That's not quite the same. I believe that just pays MGoBlog a small referral % of any purchases users make from clicking through the link. Only accessible I believe here.
The charity part is called Amazon Smile. You have to go to smile.amazon.com and designate your charity there. I believe it is also a percentage of purchases are donated. Far as I know you can just add that to the URL at any time and it activates the charity part. Unfortunately I forget to do it about half the time but I've been using it since they debuted it.
March 10th, 2015 at 12:25 AM ^
I've selected a charity with smile.amazon.com already.
I wonder if you could double up with mgoblog query string at the end of the smile link to support both?
That's correct -- starting at 4PM.
I'm hoping we see a general announcement on the main list-o-posts, just for increased awareness.
Yes, it will be this weekend at 4pm to 8pm and I will be playing chess and they have basketball on.
March 10th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
My wife has been using charity on amazon for quite a while now. Amazon Prime is amazing and everyone should have it.
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That is not us on amazon. There is a few gardens with that name H.O.P.E. and our offical name is now TEAM GARDENS and our garden project is called The #EATING project.
We will look into setting up that account because that is a great idea and will help us plant more gardens quicker.
No problem. Please let us know if/when it gets added. I'm guessing a lot of us use Amazon a lot.
As you can tell, we're a bunch of internet nerds.