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geegerbee — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:44:30 GMT

Since there are a lot of amazon customers who read these threads and will be busy buying for the holidays, I wanted to remind people that if you put smile dot in front of your amazon.com address you can choose a charity. Amazon will send a portion of your order to that charity. It costs you nothing. The price is identical to all prices on the normal amazon. I have been supporting Sanctuary for Senior Dogs for about a year now. Since I order a lot, it must have helped them at least a little. And if thousand of people do this, we could make a difference. Once you designate the charity of your choice, it automatically knows the next time you go to your smile.amazon page. You can change the charity if you want.

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Jtdmum — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:52:43 GMT

What a nice post! I never would have thought to put that reminder here on the boards. Great charity you have picked. I've been supporting Bad Rap since i found out about amazon smile. Enjoy the holidays!

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MariotaMurielle — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:03:42 GMT

thank you for reminding everyone. I found out about this about a year ago right here on these forums and have been donating to a local no-kill animal shelter with my purchases. it's a generous, painless way to donate to those in need.

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Kathlen — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:04:35 GMT

I've been participating since they started it. I buy more via Amazon than anywhere else.

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Hellodemocrat — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:05:15 GMT

Did not know, thanks.

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mousiegirl — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 03:29:31 GMT

I wish I had known about this sooner. I have bought tons this year due to DD going off to college, and redoing my kitchen, but thank you for the heads up on this.

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NickNack — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:31:21 GMT

Thank you! I buy from Amazon all the time and didn't know about this. I have it bookmarked now and will remember.

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LTT1 — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:35:32 GMT

Oh my goodness! This is wonderful! Thank you!

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mom of 7 — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:05:44 GMT

I use this for every purchase I make with them. Hopefully, it is helping my charity out a lot.

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pommom — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:24:17 GMT

I use this address to help a cat rescue organization in NJ. These people are so lovely.

When I receive acknowledgement of a donation, the director hand writes a personal note to me and asks me about my fur baby.

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mima — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:21:25 GMT

Wow, I never knew about this! Is this all year or just at holiday time? Thank you!!!!

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mima — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:26:55 GMT

Actually, I think everyone that reads this post should email everyone on their email list this info. along with a link. Ask them to forward the email to everyone on their email list. Pretty soon everyone would have it!

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Foggy morning — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:36:54 GMT

I've been using this to donate to a golden retriever rescue. Also changed my monthly subscriptions to it too. Amazon donates .05 of purchases to your charity.

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LeoGrl — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:39:40 GMT

Thanks for posting this...love Amazon!

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MariotaMurielle — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:29:33 GMT

On 11/29/2014 mima said:
Actually, I think everyone that reads this post should email everyone on their email list this info. along with a link. Ask them to forward the email to everyone on their email list. Pretty soon everyone would have it!

this is an all year thing, not just for the holidays. another way to let people know about this is when you make a purchase via AmazonSmile there is an option to share on FB. it will say something like "Jane Smith just made a purchase on Amazon Smile and donated a portion of the purchase price to xyz charity" ( or something like that). if anyone sees that and is interested, they can click on it for more information about signing up.

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cancun08 — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:33:50 GMT

Awwww, thanks so much for this reminder!!! I just signed up. I was going to place an order today & was lucky enough to see your post b4 I did.

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mima — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:55:50 GMT

I just did my first purchase using smile.amazon.com. Dang, I've bought so much in the past and really wished I would have known about this.

It was a larger purchase and donated to Operation Smile. I picked my own organization rather than went with one they had listed.

I will change charity organizations occasionally since I'd like to donate to more than one.

OP, thank you so much for posting about this!

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feline groovy — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:50:20 GMT

Great alert/thread! This is yet more proof that Amazon is a wonderful company.

I've been supporting the ASPCA. 8)

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JulyLady — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:59:44 GMT

I signed up at the beginning of 2014 and designated a small wildlife center in SW Florida which had not as yet had registered for Amazon Smile. I had specifically looked for it and it was in Amazon's database of eligible charities. It took several months after that for the center to register for the program, and the $$ waiting for them then went to them. I recently noted that the wildlife center's website now mentions the Smile program.

So if you have a charity in mind that is not yet set up to receive the donations, your act of designating them as the recipient could be sufficient to get the process in motion.

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lolakimono — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:18:11 GMT

I signed up for my one kitty's rescue organization and BF signed up for the other kitty's rescue group.