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Raising Money for Non-Profits is No Problem With Donation Street

In order to aid non-profits in their fundraising activities, DonationStreet has developed a web portal, DSCoupons.com, that allows non-profit organizations to tap into the multi-billion dollar online sales market. Jupiter Research estimates that this market will reach $117 billion by 2008. DonationStreet works with over 600 top online retailers – from Enterprise Car Rental to Land’s End, REI to Gap, Joe’s Sports to Best Buy and Wal-Mart, to provide the ‘shopping experience’ for the non-profit patrons.

In addition, DonationStreet utilizes a proprietary application that scours the internet for coupons, special promotions and the like, from their base of merchants. These offers are continuously updated, insuring an incentive for repeat visitors. Shoppers access DSCOUPONS.COM through the non-profit website, saving the non-profit thousands of dollars in web set-up fees. For every purchase made through the site, the non-profit organization receives a portion and a portion goes to the company. This fee generated from the online merchant.

With the online marketplace growing tremendously and the non-profit donation base declining, this is a great alternative fundraising opportunity for non-for-profit organizations. DonationStreet provides the perfect incentive for people to shop online and at the same time support the charity or non-profit of their choice. The only obligation to the non-profit is to market the virtual mall to their constituency and supporters. DonationStreet has made it easy to make the portal accessible to all charities, regardless of their technical sophistication.

Once an organization has become a member, they can simply link through DonationStreet Links or the more technically sophisticated Town Banners, Today’s Coupons, et al. DonationStreet supplies all the details, again simplifying the technological maintenance of the site. Another important feature, unlike similar sites, is that shoppers do NOT need to register.

No one likes to ask for money – even for a good cause so this is the perfect way for people to support their favorite causes by simply buying what they were going to buy anyway. With the economy hitting everyone so hard, Non-Profits are always looking for new sources of money.

Charities can enroll by using an online form available at DSCoupons.com.

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