For all you Amazon Shoppers...
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 can have Amazon donate 0.5% of qualifying purchases to provide money to our favorite charity, and support our hobby at the same time. This has been a public service announcement. -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
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.
On 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.
Definitely worth while. Whatever the amount of money in the end is still more money than VCF had before! Knowing individuals who easily spend hundreds to close to a thousand dollars just around Christmas time each year, plus the significant amounts my business spends, there's a good chance there would be eligible products and could add some decent dollars if enough people are made aware. If I'm using Amazon anyway, I'll certainly see if what I'm buying qualifies. Tony
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 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.
Definitely worth while. Whatever the amount of money in the end is still more money than VCF had before!
Knowing individuals who easily spend hundreds to close to a thousand dollars just around Christmas time each year, plus the significant amounts my business spends, there's a good chance there would be eligible products and could add some decent dollars if enough people are made aware.
If I'm using Amazon anyway, I'll certainly see if what I'm buying qualifies. Tony
yes, I just noticed this too a week ago, so I signed up too I thought I was late in receiving this news It keeps track of your qualtifying purchases And I see they forward the donations each calendar quarter Dan
On 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 Evan easier: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/47-4133714
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.
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