New Software Helps Charities With Virtual ‘Shopping Malls’

September 9, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

New software gives non-profit organizations more control over their on-line “shopping malls” — sites through which charities collect a percentage of the money that consumers spend on various products.

Shop2Give, a Los Angeles company that sponsors its own site to raise money for charities, also builds shopping sites for individual non-profit groups, at no charge (The Chronicle, March 25). The company has developed new software, Customized Shopping Mall 2.0, that allows charities to make changes to their sites.

A charity can use the software, which is also free, to remove businesses from the set of companies included in its shopping site, and to change the merchandise featured as specials on the site. The software also can be used to figure out how many people have visited the organization’s shopping site and how much money their purchases have generated for the group.

To get there: Go to http://www.shop2give.com.

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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.