Gaming Fall 2006 student, Ben Olsen, has recently launched his Catholic online shopping webiste called GivingCart. In just over three months since the website has launched, GivingCart has raised over $5,000 for catholic causes!!
The webiste is designed on a win-win system. The shopper goes to GivingCart and then from there can shop at multiple stores, many big name stores such as Gap, Staples, Travelocity, Priceline and hundreds of others. When a shopper makes a purchase, a certain percentage is donated to their catholic charity of choice, and another smaller percentage goes to supporting the company and the people who work for it. In other words, shoppers buy like normal and the big companies support the catholic causes through financial "donations." It's ingenius, its using modern technology for a great cause!
Niki, my wife, recently wanted to purchase a few pair of pants from Gap.com. Since we are here in Europe, we mainly do online shopping and we decided to give GivingCart a shot. So, we went to the website and made the purchases. It was extremely easy to do and we were able to secure about a 5% donation to my local parish back in the States! Unbelievable!! I will be sure to use them again!
I encourage all readers to check out there user-friendly website and pass it on to their friends: http://www.givingcart.com/
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