Company, Web Sites Unite in Campaign to Aid Refugees

June 3, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

A company that processes Internet transactions and 12 large Web sites that use its technology have joined together to raise money for UNICEF-USA’s efforts to help Kosovar refugees.

Anderson Consulting (http://www.ac.com), E Online (http://www.eonline.com), and Sony Online (http://www.sony.com) are among the Web sites that have donated advertising space to the “Point, Click, Donate” campaign. Internet users who click on one of the advertisements can make a donation without leaving the Web site they are visiting. Contributions during the first four days of the campaign totaled $3,500.

Although QPass (http://www.qpass.com), a company in Seattle that processes Internet transactions, is donating its services, 5 per cent of each donation is used to cover credit-card processing fees. After users have made a donation or purchased an item through QPass, they only need to use a member I.D. and password to complete future transactions at Web sites affiliated with the company.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.