Shopping and doing good: Support organizations with Amazon Smile purchases

If you want to do something good with online shopping and support (non-profit) organizations, you can donate 0,5% of the purchase value to an NGO of your choice for Amazon purchases; the corresponding program is called amazon-smile. How it all works, how you bring your organization into the program, which organizations you can already support online and much more, I would like to briefly summarize for you here.

Amazon Smile: Shop online and support organizations

Under the motto You Shop, Amazon Gives the not too big advertised by Amazon amazon-smile Program operated. Organizations can register here to be supported by mail order users. No special costs are imposed on the customer; it will "same products, same prices, same service“Offered. So it is similar to the partner or affiliate program from Amazon: You shop as usual and others receive commission - or in this case support. If you want to shop via Amazon Smile, you can do so via smile.amazon.de. After logging in, you can select an organization from a list or search that should benefit from your shopping.

Here is a selection:

• German Red Cross
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
• The ark
• Maltese relief service
• Sterntalerhof
• SOS Children's Villages (various to choose from)
• Greenpeace (Central and Eastern Europe)
• Etc

Register your own organization for support

If you want to register your organization for the Amazon Smile program, you can do so via org.amazon.de to do. It is important that you do not click or type immediately on “Register now”, but first read through the important points and regulations, which you will also find on the linked page. This includes the first steps in the program, an explanation of Amazon Smile, the options for receiving payments, etc. Just read it up, maybe the program will fit in well with your marketing.

Alternative: raise donations without spending, but through surveys

If you don't buy from Amazon (admittedly, more money could come in from the mail order business itself or its workforce) or if you are not planning any purchases on Amazon in the foreseeable future, then you can also give a little time to support organizations. For example, uses services like MarketAgent.comto take part in surveys and receive remuneration for doing so. You can either have this paid out or donate it - to Aids Hilfe, Global 2000, Caritas or Amnesty International. Those of you who speculate with Bitcoins can also have their collected points paid out in Bitcoin Bons ...

How do you do good? Which organizations do you support?

Do you use Amazon Smile or another service to provide organizations with money online? Which reputable services can you recommend and which organizations do you think should be supported? Feel free to leave a comment :)

Johannes Domke

After graduating from high school, Johannes completed an apprenticeship as a business assistant specializing in foreign languages. But then he decided to research and write, which resulted in his independence. For several years he has been working for Sir Apfelot, among others. His articles include product introductions, news, manuals, video games, consoles, and more. He follows Apple keynotes live via stream.