With all the success we’ve been sharing with you these past few months, we thought that it was time that we let you know a little bit more about what ShopAtHome.com has been doing to give back both in our community and around the world. Since October, we’ve worked with some amazing organizations, and we’re so honored to have the opportunity to change lives with your help!
“As a company that is known for giving cash back to our customers, ShopAtHome.com is also committed to giving back to those in need. We donated over $5,000.00 to local charities in 2009 and are also giving $2800 to support the relief efforts in Haiti. We are very grateful to be in the position we are today and have made giving back to those less fortunate a top priority at ShopAtHome.com!” – ShopAtHome.com CEO, Marc Braunstein
In October 2009, ShopAtHome.com committed to give $1 for every purchase made from the Breast Cancer Awareness page to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Denver Metropolitan organization.
The Denver Metropolitan Affiliate of Susan G Komen for the Cure was founded in 1994, the year after the first Komen Denver Race for the Cure, to carry out the promise of our National organization — to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. The Affiliate continually strives to meet this promise through three core activities — education, fundraising and grant making.
The page, along with an extra donation from the company, raised $2500 for the organization. ShopAtHome.com is so honored to play a part in helping to erase Breast Cancer for good in the lives of all men and women!
In the hopes of enriching the lives of others during the holiday season, ShopAtHome.com sent out an email where our subscribers just had to click a button and we’d donate $.10 per click. It was amazing to see how many users took a couple of seconds out of their day to click on the email… so many, in fact, that we’ve just sent a check to the Mile High United Way for $2500! From offering help to Denver-area families, adults and children in need, the Mile High United Way is an amazing organization and one that deserves all the support it can get!
Our first philanthropic mission in 2010 didn’t require much thought once January 12th, 2010 came. We knew that we needed to do something to help the over three million Haitians whose lives had been affected by the quake, as well as the families of the over 150,000 who are no longer with us. So, every department here at ShopAtHome.com banded together and for every donation from an employee, no matter how much it may be, the company would donate $100! Our final donation by ShopAtHome.com was $2800 (not bad for a company of less than fifty employees!). We’re so proud to be participating in this worldwide endeavor to help the people of Haiti.
Now, we want to know: how have you been helping in your community? Have you been donating money, volunteering at a food shelter, or something else? Let us know in the comments!
Tags: breast cancer, charity, donations, giving, haiti, philanthropy, red cross, shopathome, susan g. komen, united way
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