kind of to clarify

brandy · Post by **brandy** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:11 am

I saw Tex has inserted the Smile Amazon link below. If you make your purchases through smile.amazon.com as opposed to amazon.com you can specify a charity. Amazon will donate .5% of your purchase to your designated charity for all purchases made through the smile.amazon.com link. Amazon will not make donations through the regular amazon.com link.

The first time you purchase through the smile.amazon link you will be asked to specify a charity. I specified the Microscopic Colitis Foundation. Amazon will donate .5% of my purchase monies to our foundation as long as I utilize the smile.amazon link for future purchases (in lieu of the standard link.)

Since the Microscopic Foundation is our foundation I figure anything Amazon wants to donate to help with future research into our disease is a good thing.

Hopefully this clarifies the button below.

Post by **tex** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:36 am

Brandy,

I suspected right off the bat that you were the one responsible for prompting AmazonSmile to send me a letter requesting that we register the foundation on their website.

Before I received that letter I wasn't even aware of the existence of AmazonSmile. We are also now registered with the PayPal Giving Fund, which is a somewhat similar nonprofit set up to assist with fundraising for eligible nonprofits.

The banner is a bit large, but I tried downsizing the dimensions in the code and found that it won't display properly when I do that, so it has to be displayed as it is, or not at all.

If you hadn't prompted AmazonSmile to send that letter, we might have remained ignorant of their existence forever. Many thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Tex

brandy · Post by **brandy** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:45 am

Hi Tex,

Too funny. I was buying something from Amazon and a screen popped up about a donation. They had four charities selected....American Red Cross and some others or you could select your own. I typed in Microscopic Colitis Foundation and got a message that they would send you a letter.

Twenty and thirty year olds buy almost everything on line by the way. One of my friends is a part time mail carrier and delivers to a neighborhood of young people. Young people do not buy baby food or diapers or paper towels at stores anymore. That stuff is all bought on line now. He says he delivers a shocking amount of boxes to young households on a daily basis.

Erica P-G · Post by **Erica P-G** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:19 pm

Super....I didn't realize this....I also use Amazon quite often....I will be doing this now!

Marcia K · Post by **Marcia K** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 5:42 pm

My college-age son buys from Amazon all of the time. I'll be sure he signs up. Thanks, Brandy!

Post by **tex** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 8:45 pm

Marcia,

The key is that one has to start every shopping spree at AmazonSmile (not at the regular Amazon site) in order to be offered the option for Amazon to donate to one's charity of choice.

Thanks,
Tex

Marcia K · Post by **Marcia K** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:55 pm

Thanks, Tex. I will let him know and I will do that as well although he shops on Amazon quite a bit more than I do.

jlbattin · Post by **jlbattin** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 8:37 pm

That's wonderful news. I shop at Amazon a lot! I will do that from now on. Thanks for doing that, Brandy!

brandy · Post by **brandy** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:30 am

Donations can also be made directly at our Microscopic Colitis Foundation. http://www.microscopiccolitisfoundation.org/

Pam V · Post by **Pam V** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:15 pm

Thank-you for posting the link, Brandy. I'm making a donation right now - I can't thank this board and all of you enough for the support and guidance that I have received.

Wishing all a very happy holiday season - hoping that we all continue to see improvements in 2018!!

With love -
Pam

DebE13 · Post by **DebE13** » Fri Dec 29, 2017 3:30 pm

The nice thing about it is if you shop the Amazon ap by habit your shopping cart will carry over to the Amazon Smile site. It's easy to forget but at least a shopping trip is saved no matter which one you use.

brandy · Post by **brandy** » Sun Apr 29, 2018 11:41 am

Amazon has donated almost $400.00 to our Microscopic Colitis Foundation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget to sign up on smile.amazon.

There is no cost to you.

Donations can also be made directly to our Microscopic Colitis Foundation website. The link is above.
Our Foundation operates on a shoe string. All of our directors are unpaid volunteers who kindly volunteer their service.

Marcia K · Post by **Marcia K** » Sun Apr 29, 2018 5:34 pm

Hi, Brandy. I was thinking of posting a reminder, too. When I ordered from Smile Amazon yesterday I saw that I supported the Foundation 26 times. That made me smile!

Erica P-G · Post by **Erica P-G** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:37 pm

I use Smile.amazon every time I use Amazon.....and the donation is always to this foundation

brandy · Post by **brandy** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:47 pm

Marcia and Erica thanks for the support! I try to post something about it around every quarter when I think of it as we have so many new
members cycling through so that the new members can also check out the foundation. It looks like we get about 40 new people to the website
a month so about 500 new folks per year that check us out.