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Shoppers Can Aid Causes on Amazon

December 8, 2013

AmazonSmile is a new program that lets customers support their favorite charities while they shop.

The online retailer will donate 0.5 percent of eligible purchases made through smile.amazon.com. The site highlights five nonprofits, including the Nature Conservancy and DoSomething.org, but shoppers can select beneficiaries from almost 1 million U.S. organizations.

To get there: Go to smile.amazon.com.


About the Author

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.