Today is the quarterly Blog the Change for Animals Day. It’s a day when many bloggers write about animal causes they care about. It’s also a day that you can do something to make the difference in the lives of animals.
Blog the Change for Animals ideas can range from simple to grand, but this one is something that nearly everyone who reads it will be able to do today to benefit animals in your community, and will only take moments of your time.
Do you shop at Amazon? Did you know that you can set up your favorite rescue or shelter to receive .05% of eligible purchases automatically? It’s called Amazon Smile.
To use it, log in to Amazon and then access http://smile.amazon.com/. You can select the eligible rescue or shelter from their list. Then shop just like you always do. Tens of millions of items are eligible to generate Amazon Smile donations for your rescue or shelter, and they are clearly labeled on the site. The only thing you have to do is remember to access Amazon through the Amazon Smile home page. Whenever you do, a banner at the top of the screen reminds you which organization receives the donation from your purchases.
If you browse the web with Chrome, there’s a even a Chrome extension called Smile Always that ensures any purchase you make through Amazon is routed through Amazon Smile so that you don’t forget to do it manually.
The small donation is kind of like throwing change into a jar to give to your favorite rescue organization. It may not be a lot of money, but if everyone put their spare change in a jar and gave it to animal rescue organizations, they would have a lot more funds to help take care of the animals in their care. Your donations make a difference, so if you shop Amazon, don’t forget to configure and use Amazon Smile to save that spare change for your favorite rescue.
We do this!
My human is planning on making a large purchase soon, probably through Amazon, so she’s signed up for the Smile program!
We’re just hearing about Amazon Smile. The mom orders from there all the time. She’s gonna make sure next time is through Amazon Smile.
That is such a good idea. We can’t afford to buy much but every little bit helps. We will go sign up. Thanks for the info.
Wow. , that’s NEW & that’s COOL. !
Thanks a lot
We only just read about this at Amazon – we’ll sign up to Amazon Smile too.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
We do Amazon Smile too- thanks for spreading the word to more people.
What a great idea! We wonder if Canada’s Amazon site has that, we’ll have to look into it.
Yep! We just signed up to do this recently! Such a wonderful idea 🙂
super great idea! Tweeting right now!
what a great idea – we don’t do much through amazon but what an easy way to give back
we’ve seen this! It even reminds us when we’re not on amazon smile so we can go there before we buy. It’s a nice way to do something. 🙂
We use that all of the time and our little rescue is on there, so as much as we buy we hope they wonder who is buying all the stuff! Great post!
Thanks for the info! We knew they had a program like that but didn’t know what it was called (and then it slipped the mom’s mind), but we are going to sign up for it. How easy is that for supporting a good cause?
This is awesome!!! I had no idea such a great program existed! I will go set up my account right now!
We do this! We think this is a wonderful idea and we are glad you shared it!
This is a great program, and our favorite local cat rescue is signed up with them to receive donations 🙂
What a great idea! I’m gonna get Pop to do this. Thanks for sharing.
Just signed up, thanks.
we didn’t know about this! we’re off to sign up now! thanks!
Pip, Smidgen, Minnie, Hollie
We had already signed up for Wounded Warrior Project, but maybe we will switch it up sometimes. There are so many good causes in the world–we wish sometimes we could tell the govt what *we* want to spend our tax dollars on!
I am going to have to set this up on my computer!! A brilliant idea, thanks for telling me about it!
Thanks for this! We knew about smile but didn’t know about the chrome app!
I use this for my local rescue!
I had no idea that this existed, thanks for the tip 🙂