Whether you’re shopping for last-minute Mother’s Day gifts, graduation gifts or just want to pick up a little something for yourself, visit GoodShop.com and give money to the nonprofit organization of your choice without spending an extra cent. GoodShop.com is an online mall that gives a percentage of every purchase back to the charity designated by its users. They’ve partnered with more than 1,400 stores including 1-800-Flowers, Bloomingdales, Bliss, SpaFinder, Sephora, and Zales and the site lists hundreds of coupons and deals ranging from free shipping to percentages off to buy-one-get-one deals to money back on future orders. Plus, when you place an order there, you get to designate your favorite charity as the recipient of a percentage of your purchases.
GoodShop.com is a division of GoodSearch.com, a search engine powered by Yahoo.com, and donates up to 50 percent of its profits to charity. It was formed in 2005 by Ken Ramberg, founder of JOBTRAK, now a division of Monster.com and JJ Ramberg, an MSNBC anchor and the former Director of Marketing at Cooking.com as a means to support charities by doing something people do every day – search the internet. The company expanded to include GoodShop.com in 2007.
Here’s how it works:
1) Go to http://www.GoodShop.com.
2) Designate your favorite cause (your alma mater, place of worship or choose from among 90,000+ charities, including The American Red Cross and The Nature Conservancy)
3) Enter the store where you want to shop and get a list of coupons.
4) Shop as you normally would and a percentage of what you spend goes back to your favorite cause.
Here are a few sample coupons:
• Get $25. off your order of $100. or more and get free shipping at Timetospa.com
• Save 15 percent when you shop at Gourmet Gift Baskets and give five percent of your purchase back to your cause.
• Order a Rose bouquet and get a free heart pendant and a complimentary $10. gift voucher when you shop through Fleurop.
• Get 20 percent off and free shipping on all orders at Limogés Jewelry.
• Get Clinique’s limited-edition tote bag free with any $52.50 purchase and give four percent to your favorite charity.
The next time you want to get your shop on, visit GoodShop.com, designate a favorite charity or cause and have your purchase do double duty. It’s an easy way to give something back. (And, if you want to help your charity each time you do an internet search, use GoodSearch.com the same way as you would your regular search engine.)
GoodShop.com has been featured by The View, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times and ABC News as well as hundreds of other press outlets.
