Recently I was given a chance to purchase some cute shoes at Shoebuy.com with the help of an online gift card from SocialGoodies.com! Unlike other gift card vendors, I was pleased to note that when my purchase was complete, I had contributed $1.98 to charity! It wasn't an extra tack-on that I was required to pay, nor was the cost of the shoes higher in any way! I was simply using Social Goodies as my vehicle to purchase an item and because of that, I helped donate to the cause! Plus, I got a great deal in return!
Social Goodies is the brain child of Carie Salter, a former full-time career woman, with degrees from both Stanford and Harvard. As a girl in middle school she became involved in philanthropy because of the example of her grandfather. Together they volunteered and contributed to various organizations and also did good works on their own. She continued in this mode through college until she became swamped with work and with motherhood. Finally she made the decision to take an idea from the emerging popularity of daily deal websites such as Groupon and Living Social. But rather than creating another for profit company, she used the model to fund the good work of charities. And so, she quit her job and came home to be with her child and begin Social Goodies! Social Goodies exists solely to raise money for good causes!
Every day there is a featured deal on the site as well as many other companies that you can purchase from. They are also participating in the concept of giving back and donating profits to charity. You can buy someone else a gift card or use the Goodie Bucks for yourself! Every time you use your Goodie Bucks to purchase an item, 20% of your purchase will go to charity. The featured charities this month are Teach For America, Doctors Without Borders and The Nature Conservancy. Social Goodies is very careful with the money that they are entrusted with. They are careful to ascertain that the charities they donate to are using the money wisely. Social Goodies is proud of the fact that they have raised $20,000 for the Tsunami Relief Fund, an amazing accomplishment!
One of today's GOODies is $39 for a $99 photo scanning package from PhotoBin.com. Get all of those old photos scanned and permanently saved onto a CD or DVD, your choice. Once you redeem your Goodie bucks, PhotoBin will send you a box with everything you need to transport your 1 - 500 photos to them safely, complete with a shipping box and labels. They will then be treated with white kid glove attention and your photos will be safe forever. PLUS, $7.80 of your purchase will be donated to charity! And that is just one of the deals they have today!
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