AmazonSmile is a
charitable donation program offered by Amazon to its customers. It is a free
and effortless way to support your favorite organization every time you shop at
Amazon. This program allows Amazon customers to direct 0.5% of their qualified
purchases towards the charitable organization of their choice. This means one
has to shop $1000 worth of eligible items to donate $5 to their favorite
charity organization. Obviously 0.5% of qualified purchases isn't much but why
not donate when it costs nothing and effortless.
Here is how it
works: First visit smile.amazon.com and select your favorite charitable
organization before you begin shopping. Your selection is remembered as long as
you shop through smile.amazon.com and donations are made when you purchase
products that state "Eligible for AmazonSmile donation". Gift card
purchases, subscribe & save purchases, and certain digital purchases are
not eligible for donations. Donations accrued through your eligible purchases
are sent to charity organizations quarterly. To learn more about this program
please visit their FAQ page here.
To make it more
easier, there is a Chrome extension called "Smile Always" which will
always take you to smile.amazon.com when you go to amazon.com. I have
"Asha-Jyothi" set up as my favorite charity for smile.amazon.com. If
you don't have a favorite one, consider supporting "Asha-Jyothi".
Once an eligible purchase is made you should see a message like below:
When I first started
participating in this program I felt like I am already donating a lot while
shopping. That is not true if you look at the actual dollar numbers. So my
sincere ask to you all is, don't let that feeling stop or reduce your other
charity donations that you regularly do. Please do this in addition to what you
already do.
If you find this interesting, please consider social
sharing. Thanks!
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