Okay, here's something I didn't know about until today. Amazon has a program that lets you have 0.5% of your purchase go to a charity of your choice (over one million charities available) simply by starting your Amazon search begin at SMILE.amazon.com. That SMILE part is important. Once you start there, all your normal tools and links are where you expect them. No difference in your experience, only that when you check out, 0.5% goes to the charity you choose when you first visit the site.

Is this important? Well I have an Amazon addiction, and I know I spend a couple of thousand a year there on stuff, so half a percent isn't a lot, but it all adds up when many people do it. Amazon states they have generated $89 million to date through this program and that's not a small number. I wasn't even aware of it before today.

I searched their charity groups by typing "ferret" and found the local ferret rescue shelter group listed, so from now on, that half percent of purchases will go to them. Again, not a lot, but who knows what happens when more people are aware of it?

This could a way to help support your own local animal shelters or cause you believe in.

Every little bit helps.


smile.amazon.com