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FreePledge
Supporting organization:
FreePledge, Inc
URL:
www.freepledge.com
Location:
Silicon Valley, California
Affiliate organizations:
Nonprofit organizations
Project Description:
FreePledge is a young for-profit social venture that aims to help nonprofits tap into the Internet and technologies.
FreePledge has leveraged the power of growing e-commerce market to empower nonprofit organizations.
Users go through FreePledge for their online shopping, they pay exactly the same price as they would otherwise and a percentage of their purchases is donated to the nonprofit of their choice at no cost to them (or to the nonprofit).
Partnered online stores include Amazon, Ebay, Orbitz, shop.com, Target, BestBuy, Apple and many more.
Points of interest:
FreePledge is the brainchild of several Stanford students and alumni and was finalist of the Stanford Social-E Challenge in May 2006 (a Business Plan Competition among socially conscious concepts). Based in Silicon Valley, FreePledge is run by an international team with expertise in technology, e-commerce and the nonprofit sector.
FreePledge debuted its early prototype website in October 2005, and launched its beta website in November 2006.
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