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Keep the change +1

The Idea:

What will change in the world because this Project happens?

This will make it so easy to donate small amounts that it will rapidly gain acceptance, and raise oodles of money like never before. Hopefully, this will allow us to find the cure for brain tumors.

The idea is to create a mashup that would allow major online retailers like amazon, ebay, buy.com, etc to add one line of code to thier checkout form, which interacts with the network for good API.  This API will allow people to manage thier preferences - which would be to select a non-profit to donate to, as well as to elect to round up the purchase price to the nearest dollar - and then add 1 dolllar to it. For example: Once a user registers, there is a cookie set in thier profile which says they want to support the musella foundation and to OK the addition of the donation to the order. They go to amazon.com, and when they checkout, the network for good API alerts the checkout form that we are participating - and to add the donation to the total. If the total is 25.25, this would round up to 26, then add 1 for a total of $27.  Of this, the $1.25 goes to the charity.

   Nobody will really object - it is such a small amount at each transaction, but there are millions of such transactions each week, which could raise over a million dollars in donations per week!

Unfortunately, I don't have the know how to program the api part and would need a volunteer to help!

What information will people interact with to make this change?

Form the user's point of view, they will see a link on checkout pages all over the web that says something like: Sign up for "keep the change+1". That takes them to a sign up page where they can select thier charity and enter thier preference for participating in the program. OR the charity websites can have sign up pages, with links to all participating online stores.

  Once they are signed up, whenver they go to checkout from a participating vender, there will be a checkbox marked:

  Keep the change +1: Support the Musella Foundation (or the charity they select).  IF the user checks that box, $1 + the rounded up portion of the amount is added to the final bill.

The Assessment

The Team

Project Designer Al Musella, DPM President Musella Foundation musella

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Cisco

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  • Microsoft
  • Yahoo
  • Business Objects
  • Raincity Studios
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Ready Talk
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  • Adobe
  • Linden Lab
  • Network For Good
  • Wild Apricot
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • L'Atelier North America
  • The Panelist
  • Good
  • Fora.tv
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