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Amazon Gives Little Notice on End of AmazonSmile Program

NonProfit PRO

"Every little bit counts” — at least that’s what Amazon touts when it shares the impact customers have made via AmazonSmile. But less than a decade after launching the program, Amazon announced that AmazonSmile's days are numbered.

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Shopping for a Cause: Is AmazonSmile an Effective Tool for Nonprofit Fundraising?

Byte Technology

Gone (mostly) are the days when cause-centered organizations stuffed flyers into envelopes and received a check back in the snail mail or reaped the benefits of plastic jars and point-of-sale locations. It’s easy to navigate—you use your same accounts on both Amazon and AmazonSmile—and all your preference settings are identical.

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4 Text Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Take from Big Brands

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Shay Lessman , Content Writer and Editor for Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. Amazon revolutionized the easy checkout process. Now, making a purchase on Amazon is as simple as sliding a button from left to right on your cell phone.

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Podcast Recap: Dana Snyder (& Cause Camp Speaker Reveal!)

NonProfit Hub

First Cause Camp Fall speaker revealed! We’re living in the world of Amazon,” Dana reminded us. Cause Camp is Coming…and so is Dana! We closed the podcast with an exciting announcement: Dana is presenting at Cause Camp Fall this October! The post Podcast Recap: Dana Snyder (& Cause Camp Speaker Reveal!)

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3 Ways to Make the Most of Non-Cash Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Moreover, the most widely held large-cap stocks (Alphabet, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Tesla) are all up 300%-1000% over the past 5 years. Those who lean sooner stand to gain the most, so let’s embrace this change and ensure that the causes that matter remain strong in these uncertain times.

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Quick Favor Please! Take the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Survey

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year’s questions delve into how donors prefer to give to their favorite causes and will reveal the impact of social media, emerging trends (such as cryptocurrency, Amazon Alexa, gaming for good), and the role of crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, #GivingTuesday, and volunteerism in individual giving worldwide.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. And that is setting back the cause of people with disabilities who need that kind of access. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible.

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