{"id":8810,"date":"2020-09-19T06:35:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T11:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/goofy-ridge-il-cdp\/a-reminder-about-shopping-on-amazon-smile\/"},"modified":"2020-09-19T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T11:35:16","slug":"a-reminder-about-shopping-on-amazon-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/goofy-ridge-il-cdp\/a-reminder-about-shopping-on-amazon-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reminder About Shopping on Amazon Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/20-2366090\"><strong>smile.amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/20-2366090\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20548 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/goofy-ridge-il-cdp\/files\/2020\/09\/amazonsmile-300x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>What is AmazonSmile?\u00a0<\/strong>AmazonSmile is an easy way for you to help your favorite charity simply by doing your Amazon shopping on smile.amazon.com instead. When you first visit smile.amazon.com, you\u2019ll be prompted to select your favorite charitable organization. Once you\u2019ve done this, Amazon will start donating 0.5% of all your eligible purchases toward that charitable organization. The blue amazon smile link above is preconfigured to automatically select United Resource Connection as your favorite charity. Simply click the link and you\u2019re all set. The more you spend, the more we benefit. How great is that? While we hope you select us, the following instructions will help you select any nonprofit that is registered with the Amazon Smile program as your beneficiary. We hope you find this helpful!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Signing up for Amazon Smile is easy.<\/strong> Goto <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/\">smile.amazon.com<\/a>, and login as if it\u2019s your normal amazon account. Then go to the \u201cAccount and Lists\u201d tab (the one that says \u201cHello, [your name]\u201d) and select the \u201cYour AmazonSmile\u201d option from the dropdown menu. There is a \u201cSelect\/Change Charity\u201d button on the right side of the page \u2014 clicking on it will give you the ability to search for and select your favorite charity, (cough) \u201cUnited Resource Connection\u201d. Now change all your Amazon bookmarks to point to smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com. It\u2019s still the same store, but now your purchases are benefiting the nonprofit organization you selected.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit selected as your beneficiary will receive .5% (half of 1%) of the money you spend on Amazon.com. So go large. You deserve it! The hardest part of this whole thing, for charity organizations, is getting a lot of people to select them as their preferred Amazon Smile beneficiary. So ask everyone you know to signup \u2014\u00a0Start with family and friends, and work your way through fellow co-workers. Show them this page if they need help. That\u2019s probably the most significant thing you can do to support your favorite charity, besides signing-up yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Amazon Mobile App.<\/strong> If you use the Amazon mobile app on your cellphone, go to the settings within the app and turn on amazon smile. Unfortunately your purchases made via the Amazon mobile app (e.g., how you most likely access Amazon on your cellphone) will not donate to your favorite charity unless you\u2019ve adjusted this setting. When you open your Amazon Mobile Shopping App, click the menu icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen, and select the option that says \u201cSettings\u201d (its the one with an American Flag beside it). Within the resulting list of options, select AmazonSmile. Then simple toggle where it says \u201cOFF\u201d to \u201cON\u201d and you\u2019re all set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help Your Favorite Charity Register to Receive Donations, if they aren\u2019t already registered.<\/strong> Any charity that is registered with GuideStar is automatically eligible to be a beneficiary of the AmazonSmile program \u2014 HOWEVER, they still must register to actually receive donations from Amazon. Here is a link (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/org.amazon.com\">org.amazon.com<\/a><\/strong>) to information that can help your favorite charity register if they haven\u2019t already. Please let them know about it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30342 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/goofy-ridge-il-cdp\/files\/2020\/09\/Web_Banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_8810\"  data-site_id=\"63347fe36fd08b6c05de3d9e\"  data-dislike_enabled=\"false\"  data-icon_dislike_show=\"false\"  data-white_label=\"true\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/goofy-ridge-il-cdp\/a-reminder-about-shopping-on-amazon-smile\/\"  data-item_title=\"A Reminder About Shopping on Amazon Smile\"  data-item_image=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/goofy-ridge-il-cdp\/files\/2020\/09\/amazonsmile-300x150-1.jpg\"  data-item_date=\"2020-09-19T06:35:14-05:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/goofy-ridge-il-cdp\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smile.amazon.com What is AmazonSmile?\u00a0AmazonSmile is an easy way for you to help your favorite charity simply by doing your Amazon shopping on smile.amazon.com instead. 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