Causemunity is an online community for causes and their members. Causemunity was founded in 2008,
and is located in Kirkland, WA. The founder Wayne Liu is a software engineer/entrepreneur who
had many years of experiences at Microsoft as a developer. The features and components he developed
are widely used in many Microsoft products, including MapPoint, Streets & Trips and Virtual
Earth.
At Causemunity, we believe
in collective giving and support our favorite causes as a community rather than individuals.
Our users can take advantage of our advanced product search tools to find deals and save
money on tens of millions of products at their favorite online stores. And if they select a
cause as their beneficiary, which is extremely easy to do on the Causemunity’s site, every
time they shop online through Causemunity, they’ll earn cash rewards based on their purchases,
and we will donate the cash rewards to their chosen causes automatically. There’s no extra cost
to our members, and absolutely no additional effort on our members either! (To prove that our
users’ purchases indeed benefited their chosen causes, we list each purchase on our web site,
with the sensitive private information removed.)
And more importantly, Causemunity helps build long lasting affinity between non-profit
organizations and their members. With Causemunity, donation is no longer a once-a-year event,
it becomes part of the daily lives of our users. Whenever our users shop online, they'll be
thinking about supporting their favorite non-profit organizations,
and the organizations will receive continuous support from their members year round,
and year after year!
Causemunity is available as a stand-alone web site, and also as a Facebook Application. On the
stand-alone web site, our users can easily search, shop and give to their favorite causes.
To fully enjoy the advantage of Causemunity’s extremely easy to use community features, and
earn some cash rewards for yourself, please join Causemunity on Facebook.
If you need to contact us, please send your email to:
- Wayne Liu - Founder and President: wayne@causemunity.org
When you join Causemunity on Facebook, giving will no longer be an isolated event, but a
communal effort. When you support causes that you truly believe, would you encourage your
friends to support your causes too?! At Causemunity, you can easily do that by simply publishing
news stories on your Facebook profile so that all your friends can see them. By leveraging the
powerful viral technology, you’ll be able to spread the word for your causes faster than ever
and reach out to all your friends to support your causes!
Second, while you are on Facebook, you can easily see what causes your friends are supporting
and what causes may interest you. Maybe they are supporting your own neighborhood community,
or your kid's PTA, or your alma mater. One of those causes may just be the one you want to
support yourself!
And third, you can choose as many causes you want to support, and set a giving percentage to
each cause. Using the Causemunity Facebook application, you’re in total control of your cash
rewards!
Last but not least, you can earn cash rewards for yourself from your purchases. It’s up to
you to decide how much cash rewards you want to donate, and how much you want to keep!
If you already have a Facebook account, please click to
join Causemunity
and see how easy it is to start
earning cash rewards and micro-donating to your causes. If you don't have a Facebook account yet,
please click to create one. You only need
to provide a name and email address at a minimum. It
usually takes less than a minute!
Don't wait,
start now and
become part of a giving community for your own favorite causes!
The Causemunity website is the easiest way to shop and give to your cause. When
you make your online shopping through the Causemunity website, you don’t need a user
name or password. You can just go to your cause's unique Causemunity URL, shop at our
affiliated merchants, and all your cash
rewards will be donated to your selected cause automatically. And you can view your
purchases on the cause’s purchase history page.
To use the Causemunity Facebook application, you need to have a Facebook account,
and log in using your facebook username and password. We can provide more services
to you based on your Facebook account. On the Facebook application, you can publish
news stories to spread the words for your causes, add more causes to support, and
better manage your cash rewards by setting giving percentage to each cause. And you
can earn cash rewards for yourself too!
It’s simple. You just go to your causes's unique Causemunity Url, click your favorite
merchant to shop or search for a product and shop. We'll donate a portion of your
purchases to your cause automatically.
To use the Causemunity Facebook application, once you authorize the application, make sure to bookmark the
application so that you can easily find it later. And please also enable email notifications,
so that when your cash
rewards are available, we can notify you via email.
To shop at our affiliated merchants, either go to our Merchants
page, find the merchant and click the
link to go to their site to shop, or you can use our powerful product search tool to search and find the
best deals on tens of millions of products instantly!
If you are a cause director, please sign up your cause with us!
By signing up your cause with Causemunity, you’ll provide your members the easiest way to micro-donate to your
cause, and it also allows you to recommend products directly to your members by sending them messages using the
Causemunity Facebook application. We also have a short video on the signup page that describes the benefits of
becoming part of our giving community!
After you sign up at Causemunity, we'll add your cause into our system, and assign your cause a unique
Causemunity Url, such as 'YourCause'.causemunity.org. Then we'll contact you with some information
to quickly get started with Causemunity. If your supporters go to this unique URL, click their favorite
merchant to shop, or search a product and then shop, we'll donate a portion of their purchases to
your cause automatically.
We strongly recommend you to submit your cause's logo to us. This logo will replace the default Causemunity
logo on your unique Causemunity page. You members will be delighted to see the logo of their favorite cause
when they shop online!
To send us your logo, please email it to wayne@causemunity.org.
The key for the success of receiving micro-donations through Causemunity is to mobilize
as many supporters as possible to start using Causemunity to shop. Depending on your
organization's communication methods with your supporters, you can talk about Causemunity on
your
- Email newsletters
- Newsletters by post
- Website
- Regular meetings
- Events, such as fund raising events, sports events and etc.
- Facebook groups, or Facebook pages
- Twitter messages
Combine as many methods as you can to get the words out, and ask your supporters to try
to use Causemunity. Once your supporters get used to micro-donate to your organization
through Causemunity, you'll receive constant donations from your supporters month after month,
and year after year!
First of all, we make online shopping easier for our users with our advanced product search tool.
Our users can search for products, deals and do price comparison on over 10 millions products at over 200
merchants. The more often your supporters come over to Causemunity to shop, the more micro-donations
you'll receive! Try it now. Type a product name inside the search box on the top of the page. No matter
what you're looking for, books, toys, electronics, apparels or perfumes, as long as they are sold online,
chances are you'll find good deals here!
Second, you can include our Causemunity button on your website (shown on the left), in your email newsletters, or
anythere you see fit. Once clicked, it takes your supporters directly to our Causemunity site where
they can start shopping. We'll provide the HTML code for this button once you sign up with us.
Last, but not least, we have a
Causemunity Facebook application
where your supporters can easily
spread words for your cause among their friends on Facebook. All they need to do is to click a
button on Facebook application to publish a news story, and all his/her friends will see the story
right away.