Rewarding charity donations is trending everywhere!
In this last post of 2014, we would like to review 6 websites who already launched initiatives for rewarding acts of generosity. They are based on different business models, but they endorse the same spirit as Karmly. Karmly will be different than those and will not be in competition with them. We believe that generous people should receive larger choice for donating and being rewarded for that.
1. Oxfam's Tag Your Bag (rewards with Nectar points)
Oxfam, the leader in UK of collecting and retailing second hand items whose profits are donated to causes, decided to reward the donors of used items by rewarding 2 Nectar points for each £1 raised by the the sales of the donor's items.
2. Cherry Checkout
This Swiss startup created an innovative way of motivating people to add $1 to their online bill in order to participate to weekly lottery with the chance of having their bill fully cashed back.
3. The Greedy Giver
This Canadian startup decided to launch a CrowdFunding website where supporting local causes will be rewarded by perks from local businesses.
4. Reward for Causes
Reward for Causes is very similar in spirit to The Greedy Giver, but it is not based on crowd-funding. It is basically a deals website where you can unlock deals for a price. Half of what is paid to unlock the deal is given to the causes you have chosen.
5. Rewarding Donations
This is three-sided marketplace intended to intermediate between Charities and Merchants in order to create partnerships. Charities will promote Merchants' businesses and in exchange Merchants will reward Customers who have made donations to Charities partners. The service is B2B and it has as its mission to be the clearing house for the partnerships.
6. Causora
Causora is the last, but not least of our list of Karma-oriented websites. Its goal is to reward donations with currency that can be used to redeem vouchers or perks. In a sense Causora is the closest to our initial idea for Karmly.
This video is a nice explanation of how Causora works:
If you have read this blog post up to this line, you deserve a reward!
Karmly wishes you all the very best for the New Year 2015. Be all the good you have done and will do, rewarded with everthing you wish for yourself and for your beloved ones, together with plenty of health and happiness, which of course you can never buy and that everybody should always have in full supply!
Karmly wishes you all the very best for the New Year 2015. Be all the good you have done and will do, rewarded with everthing you wish for yourself and for your beloved ones, together with plenty of health and happiness, which of course you can never buy and that everybody should always have in full supply!