Online shopping with donations
Create a list of the possible on-line shopping+donation services, and compare them. For each one:
* General description: Are they green or general consumer? What is their product line like? (We may have more than one partner, one with all kinds of products, one with green products only, and perhaps a couple of specialty stores, like Barnes and Nobles so we can sell books.)
* Can donations be made to a non-501-c3 (we're not registered as a 501c3)
* Google them on a blog search engine, and see if anyone has written about them. Take quick notes, including the URL of the blog so I can see it.
* With each, google their name and "problem" (as in, google "igive problem") and skim the first 30 entries, to see if there are complaints. Any complaints?
* What else might be interesting to know?
BACK UP - so now that we have an idea of what we're looking for, see if you can find someone who has already done this research and posted it (especially recently). One way to do this is to google for a couple of the names at once, like "igive.com someothercharitydonation.org" -- you're likely to find reviews that way.
** Keep really good notes on the side, about what google searches you've done for example... it's important to record dead-ends so we don't keep following them over and over, or to let others review what searches you've made to see if they can come up with new ideas. You're doing the "foundation" work.. be very neat so others can build on it.
