0.5% of amazon purchases to a charity of your choice (opt-in)

Jonathan_Graehl

'MIRI' works in the search field when electing a charity to get 0.5% of your https://smile.amazon.com purchases.

I recall there being some kind of credit card that automatically rounded the price of your purchases up and donated the difference to a charity of your choice. Does that ring a bell for anyone?

Credit card companies seem to have enough money to pay airplane company something for frequent flyer miles. There are also cashback programs.

I think the credit card company gets something like 3% of the money you pay for transactions. Maybe it would be possible to have a credit card that pays automatically 1 or 2 percent of the purchase price to a charity.

It might be very high leverage for someone in the effective altruism movement to facilitate the creation of such a credit card. The card might be default move the money to GiveWell recommended charities.

Credit card companies don't have the best PR and I think there a good chance that they would welcome a project like that.

2kevin_p12y

Are you thinking of SwipeGood (http://swipegood.com/)? I don't know of any credit cards that do that, but several banks have a "save the change" option that rounds up purchases and puts the extra pennies into a nominated savings account. As far as I understand it (the "FAQ" link just sends me back to their homepage), SwipeGood links into those systems to donate the money to charities instead, minus a 5% commission.

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