On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:35 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Amazon has philanthropy program (where they donate money to NPO's). If you do your shopping at smile.amazon.com and select Vintage Computer Federation
You're the second person this week to mention that to me. Our application is already underway as of a few days ago. The pay .5%, so for every $100 spent we get 50 cents. Not sure if that is worthwhile :) but we'll do it anyway. Well, VCF is listed in their database of NPO's. so I already set it up as mine. But the main thing is you can't look at it as $.50 for every hundred dollars. Say there are 500 people who set VCF as their charity of choice. And each person spends $250/quarter shopping online, so with no specific money out of their pockets, the VCF would get $625 in donations. If you "advertise" on the various newsgroups, forums, twitter, Facebook, events, email list, etc. Who knows how many people would select VCF as their charity of choice. And it could be a fairly steady income stream, even if not a huge one.