Buy For Charity

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:08 pm

I haven't studied this, but it appears to be a website from which a portion of retail purchases can be applied to preservation causes. Some of the participants are major chains.

http://www.buyforcharity.com/

colfaxstation · **Posted:** Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:13 pm

I've signed the Colfax RR Museum up for the program. I'll report in a couple of months on results.
Herb Sakalaucks
Colfax RR Museum

Evan · **Posted:** Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:21 am

iGive.com is similar. The Trolley Museum of New York has been linked to iGive for several years.

cwylde · **Posted:** Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:57 pm

It was difficult to decide which category to list under. "Museum" had several listings including a few rail related ones

Mark S Bassett · **Posted:** Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:51 pm

Evan,
What has been your experience with igive?

doowoppie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:45 am

Hii Mark and Everyone,
We have had pretty good success with iGive. We have had about $70 dollars donated to our society with just one or two people shopping so far.
The thing is with any of these is if you have members signed up who do a lot of shopping online. The more people shop for your organization the more is donated to you.
As an example. if you haven anyone who wants a subscription to Trains Magazine then you can get a donation of up to 26% per subscription. for a $30 dollar subscription you make an average $7.5 in donations
As I mentioned eairler we have had some donation brought in by using iGive and it can be better if more people use it.
Andrew