Domino's Pizza first to join new microdonation scheme

9 November 2010

Greetings!

Microdonations, which allow consumers to add small charitable donations to their purchases, have been successfully used by eBay for some time now. Yet despite clearly being a good idea, strangely it hasn't spread to other retailers. Good news then that Domino's Pizza is on-board a new scheme created by the Pennies Foundation - let's hope other retailers follow their example.

An electronic charity donation scheme has been launched to collect small donations from consumers who pay for goods by card.

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Analysis

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Case study

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Blogs

Spaces...the final frontier

A new social phenomenon is here. A tweet or a poke are no longer enough to satisfy the social masses - they need Spaces and Superswarms. Rob Dyson explains why your charity needs them too.

Avoid the lure of blogs and forums when redesigning your website

Charity PR specialist Ingrid Marson recommends you think hard about the implications before jumping into the social media beehive.

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