Micro-philanthropy website focused on peer-to-peer charitble gift giving
Founded: 2007
Status: Nonprofit
Processing Fee: 3% + $0.30
Website: http://www.changingthepresent.org
In their words:
ChangingThePresent.org offers donation gifts to help change the world, in exactly the way you want. For instance: for just a few dollars, you can provide a child with her first book; fund an hour of cancer research; protect an acre of the rainforest; or restore a blind person's sight with cataract surgery.
You can share these gifts with your friends and family, or use them for your own nonprofit giving. We provide a full range of inspiring gifts from hundreds of leading nonprofits, so you're sure to find something that moves you.
Participating Nonprofits
ChangingThePresent.org already features thousands of donation gift items from hundreds of leading nonprofits, and the list is growing daily. You can browse for nonprofits with featured gifts or search by name to find any of half a million nonprofits.
Donation gifts
Donation gifts are also a wonderful way to honor friends and family for their birthdays, weddings and holidays. (After all, how many of us really want another pair of fuzzy slippers?) Wish lists and registries make it easy to find the perfect gift, which you can share with a personalized greeting card.
Imagine, for one delicious moment, how much good we could do by capturing for nonprofits even a little bit of the $250 billion that Americans spend each year buying presents for one another. As this site catches on, it will become the standard way many of us will show how much we care. If you're here now, you're at the front of the pack.
