Bank of America has this promotion where every debit card purchase is rounded up to the next dollar, and the extra amount of each transaction is then deposited into your savings account, where it can earn interest. It's like a forced savings program. So, for example, if something costs $9.65, you would automatically contribute $0.35 to your savings account.
What if this idea were extended to the philanthropic realm? Instead of sending that $0.35 to your savings account, though, you would send it to a charitable organization of your choosing. Every day, you would be contributing to a charitable cause, knowing that you were somehow helping the world in your own little way.
What if this idea were extended to the philanthropic realm? Instead of sending that $0.35 to your savings account, though, you would send it to a charitable organization of your choosing. Every day, you would be contributing to a charitable cause, knowing that you were somehow helping the world in your own little way.
A couple variations on this theme:
1) If you have Citizens Bank Green Sense, which pays 10 cents for each online or debit card transaction, donate that money.
2) Donate the savings when you get a price adjustment. Or take it one step further and donate your savings when you buy something on sale.
Our students put their change in a container for two weeks and collected enough money to send our sister school in South Africa on their FIRST field trip EVER!!! It is now something we continue to do!
ALso, we contribute to Pennies for PEACE... another really EASY way for us to help so many others!!!
Interesting article, continue helping those who are in need.
ToddDiroberto
Great post, I've bookmarked it so I can refer to it later and I've subscribed to your blog feed.
This post definitely earns a bookmark and a subscription to your RSS feed. Great work on this one.