Super Fitness Health BlogRaising Money for Charities is Easy With Donation Street
Through their vitual shopping mall (DSCoupons.com), DonationStreet is helping non-profits in their fundraising endeavors by allowing them to tap into the multi-billion dollar online sales market. Jupiter Research estimates that this market will reach $117 billion in 2008. DonationStreet has registered over 700 top merchants – from Enterprise Car Rental to Land’s End, REI to Gap, Cabelas to Best Buy and Wal-Mart, to provide the ‘shopping experience’ for the non-profit supporters.
In addition, the website employs a proprietary program that searches the internet for coupons, special deals and the like, from their base of merchants. These promotions are constantly updated, insuring an incentive for repeat visitors. Shoppers access DSCOUPONS.COM through the non-profit website, saving the non-profit thousands of dollars in web set-up costs. For every purchase made through DSCOUPONS.COM, the non-profit receives a percentage of the sale and a portion goes to the company. This fee is paid by the online retailer.
With the online marketplace growing tremendously and the non-profit donation base sliding, this is a great alternative revenue generating opportunity for non-for-profit organizations. DonationStreet provides the perfect incentive for people to shop online and at the same time support the charity or non-profit of their choice. The only obligation to the non-profit is to market the web site to their constituency and supporters. DonationStreet has made it easy to make the portal accessible to all charities, regardless of their technical expertize.
Once a charity has become a member, they can simply link through DonationStreet Links or the more technically sophisticated Town Banners, Today’s Coupons, et al. DonationStreet supplies all the details, again simplifying the technological maintenance of the site. Another important aspect of the site, unlike similar sites, is that consumers do NOT need to register to access the site.
No one likes to ask for money – even for a good cause so this is the perfect way for people to support their charities by simply buying what they were going to buy anyway. With the economy hitting everyone so hard, charities are constantly looking for new sources of donations.
Non-profit organizations can sign-up by using an online form available at DSCoupons.com.
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