| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 705329000 | Fundraising management | 65 |
| 20100106663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND GOALS - A method and apparatus for a business process that permits an entity to post a charitable cause or other cause at a public organizational web site allowing the cause to be reviewed and ranked by the market place. A community of supports, including financial and other material supports, for example, is established to support each cause and facilitate the completion of its mission. Entities, such as vendors and service providers, for example, are tracked and reimbursed by the organization. The business process further provides for the tracking of payments and expenditures and provides reports to payers and organizations that champion, i.e., support, each posted cause. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100169232 | Arrangement and Method for Fundraising and a Server - The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for fundraising and a server that makes this possible. In the invention, an arrangement for fundraising is presented, which arrangement comprises a user, a teleoperator, an Internet-type network, a database and a data communications network operating between the user and the teleoperator such, that the arrangement additionally comprises a fundraising system, that receives donations made by the user to a virtual objective, and which fundraising system comprises a server for receiving donations and messages and additionally means to deliver and present to the user real-time information relating to the virtual objective. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20120109840 | DONOR DRIVEN RESEARCH SELECTION AND FUNDING METHOD AND SYSTEM - An online Internet-based method for funding scientific research comprises presenting a plurality of candidate research projects to potential or executing donors for the donors' review. The potential or executing donors view the candidate research projects on a computer system using a web browser. Donations are received from executing donors. Selections are received from the executing donors regarding research projects to be funded. Finally, funding is provided to a research project. A system that implements the method is also provided. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120197815 | System for allocating fundraising - A fundraising system ( | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120203707 | FACILITATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NON-PROFITS, BUSINESSES AND CONSUMERS - Technology is disclosed for matching funding needs of an entity in need of a donation. The technology can receive information about a potential donor's desired donating requirements; store the captured information in a database; receive information about a nonprofit entity; receive from the nonprofit entity a request for a donation; automatically generate a list of matching potential donors, the list including the potential donor from which information was received, the list generated by matching the received information about the potential donor with the received information about the nonprofit entity; and enable a user of a Web site to accept or decline a donated item. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120239586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FUNDING NONPROFIT ENDEAVORS USING TARGETING - An economic allotment computing system and method. The system and method may include a first engine programmed to receive, from a plurality of users, user profile information, and to receive an association by each of the plurality of users of a non-profit endeavor with the respective profile information, a second engine programmed to sell to marketers the user profile information of ones of the plurality of users for at least one of targeted marketing, promotions, polling, and surveying, and a third engine programmed to allot at least a portion of proceeds obtained from the sale executed by the second engine to the non-profit associated with the one of the plurality of users undertaking an action indicated by at least one of the targeted marketing, promotions, polling and surveying. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120317046 | CANDIDATE FACT CHECKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A candidate fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information related to a candidate by comparing the information with one or more sources. The candidate fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130054484 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PRODUCING A COMPETITIVE GIVING MARKET-PLACE THROUGH A SOCIAL IMPACT MARKETING PLATFORM - Systems, methods and apparatuses for producing a competitive giving marketplace through a social impact marketing platform is disclosed. A portal for consumers, merchants, nonprofits, merchant processors, and financial institutions (participants) is provided to interact in the online and physical marketplace connected to the portal and may create and host competitive events to generate revenues for a designated nonprofit, purpose or cause. An administrative system coordinates the relationship between participants and the receipt of revenue generated for participants. The system and method disclosed provide ways for participants to measure, verify, and market the generated revenue through a portal, in order to combine and direct designated revenues for a designated nonprofit or other purpose in a competitive giving marketplace. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130085956 | Method of Donating to a Charity via an Event Outcome - A system and method to facilitate donating to a charity with a donation level linked to the outcome of a specific event or series of events. Participants raising money for a charity log onto a website where they select a charity, an event and a performance based wager. A donor, planning to contribute to a charity, logs onto the same website, and selects a charity, an event and a participant, and agrees to participate in the wager proposed by the participant. The donor authorizes payment of the proposed wager to the charity dependent on the participant performance. Participants may be individuals, teams or individual members of a team. The charities may be any registered or recognized charity. The events may be any on which a quantifiable prediction may be made. Donors may be individuals, corporations, associations, partnerships, special interest groups or fan clubs. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130103603 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING - A system and method of making a charitable donation on a mobile device includes reading a code with the mobile device and requesting code related content in response to reading the code. The code related content is received from a server, the code related content comprising at least one short code associated with a charitable organization. In some embodiments, additional content may be provided to provide incentive to the user to make a donation. At least one of a SMS or MMS message is sent using the short code to make a donation to the charitable organization. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103604 | Currency System for Giving - In one aspect, a method for implementing a currency system for giving includes: receiving a donation to a donor-advised fund; converting, by a computing system, the donation to an intermediate currency different than a currency of the donation; receiving, at the computing system, instruction designating a gift for distribution to a recipient organization, the gift including at least a portion of the donation in the intermediate currency; and transferring, from the computing system, the gift to the recipient organization. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130110738 | POLITICAL DONATION ALLOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130151432 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER-STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATION OF DONATIONS BETWEEN PARTIES - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium for allocating one or more charitable resources are disclosed for obtaining a charitable need request and validating the charitable need request by approving or denying the request based on information known about the request and the person/entity submitting the request. The charitable need request preferably is submitted by a potential beneficiary or donee to the invention, and the charitable need request preferably is validated by a local validator. Preferably, the local validator has personal knowledge of the need request and the beneficiary. Once the charitable need request is approved, one or more donors may provide time, money and/or other resources to help fulfill the need request. The donated funds and/or item(s) may be passed through the invention to the local connector acting as receiver of the funds and/or item(s) to the one or more beneficiaries. Preferably, the local connector validates the local validator. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARITABLE GIVING - The present invention provides a computerized processing method and system for managing charitable donations and providing a giving lifecycle for the donor. The method and system includes granting a donor electronic access to a giving account, wherein the giving account includes a plurality of donation funds. The method and system includes electronically receiving a donation request from the donor to generate a donation to a selected charity from a plurality of charities, the donation providing a donation value of at least a portion of the donation funds within the giving account. The method and system includes processing the donation including transferring the donation value to the selected charity, updating the donation account of the donor to reflect the allocation of donation funds, and providing a graphical user interface to the user including types of charitable donation causes by the user within a defined time period. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130185220 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH GROUP MEMBERS - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among group members are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by charities, companies, schools, and individuals. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130204801 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE PERFORMANCE OF SERVICES IN EXCHANGE FOR CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS - A computer-implemented system and method for facilitating agreements negotiated by users of the system to exchange professional services in return for charitable contributions. The system allows a first user to locate another user who can perform a service requested by the first user or who requires a service that the first user can provide, and facilitates the negotiation of a contract where the service is performed in exchange for a contribution being made to one or more charitable non-profit organizations, without the user performing the service being subjected to income tax liability for the contribution. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130218798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FUNDRAISING - A fundraising system includes: a controller adapted to: associate a unique identifier with each of a plurality of a fundraiser participants; receive an accounting from a financial institution identifying a plurality of deposits made to a single financial account at the financial institution, wherein each deposit is associated with one of the unique identifiers; and provide a user interface adapted to identify the one or more deposits contributed by each fundraiser participant using the associated unique identifier. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130246296 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTIMODAL MOBILE DONATIONS VIA TEXT MESSAGE AND EMAIL COMMUNICATION - A donation processing system receives a text message from a donor indicating that they would like to make a donation to a non-profit organization. In response to the text message, a response message indicating the particulars of the donation including the donation amount and the non-profit organization is sent to the user. The donor reviews the information and, if the information is correct, a confirmation message is sent from the donor in response to the response message. The confirmation message confirms the donation. The donation is then made to the non-profit organization in response to the confirmation message. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246297 | Bid-Based Charitable Impact Statement - A system and method of providing, at the time of the donation, the direct benefits derived from an asset donation. The asset is electronically bid instantaneously after the donor enters the asset's specific description. The bid amount is then compared with the stored cost, or impact metric, of a particular benefit. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130282610 | Facilitating Interactions Between Non-Profits, Businesses and Consumers - Technology is disclosed for matching funding needs of an entity in need of a donation. The technology can receive information about a potential donor's desired donating requirements; store the captured information in a database; receive information about a nonprofit entity; receive from the nonprofit entity a request for a donation; automatically generate a list of matching potential donors, the list including the potential donor from which information was received, the list generated by matching the received information about the potential donor with the received information about the nonprofit entity; and enable a user of a Web site to accept or decline a donated item. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130297521 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DONATING ONE OR MORE ITEMS - According to some aspects, a computer-implemented method for donating one or more items to at least one recipient selected from a plurality of potential recipients is provided. The method comprises using at least one processor to perform presenting the donor with a plurality of items that a selected recipient desires to receive as a donation, receiving first input indicating the donor's selection of at least one item from the plurality of items, and interacting with the donor to allow the donor to donate at least a portion of the at least one selected item to the selected recipient. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130311391 | METHOD OF MARKETING CHARITABLE DONATIONS - A method of generating charitable donations without incurring marketing costs for the charity including the steps of making a donation to the charity and recording the donation amount in a computer database, paying a monthly fee to a redistribution pool and recording the monthly fee amount in a computer database, sponsoring a second member, calculating a redistribution amount based on a percentage from a lookup table from the redistribution pool based on the number of times the member appears in the database wherein a processor determines the redistribution amount, and paying the redistribution amount to the member. The charity may operate the invention directly under a license agreement, or contract with a marketing company that operates the invention, the fundraising efforts, generating donations to the charity and managing marketing. The method and system permit the charity to raise funds for charity while incurring no marketing expenses related to the fundraising. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130325736 | System For Selling - A system for selling comprises allowing an item 10 to be purchased by a user, allowing at least one cause to be associated with the item, providing a dispersement indicator | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130339263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DONATION RECEIPT - The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating a donation receipt. For example, in one embodiment, a method for generating a donation receipt is disclosed that includes receiving an email from a user that includes a receipt, parsing the receipt to gather information to identify an organization to determine whether a tax deductible donation was made, performing a query of a database containing information about known organizations using the information about the organization parsed from the receipt to identify the organization, generating the donation receipt that includes a tax identification number associated with the organization, and sending the donation receipt to the user. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140012771 | Method of Operating a Digital Exchange Serving as an Integrated, Continuous Sponsorship and Promotion System - A method of operating a sponsorship exchange system to connect sponsors with organizations or individuals within a community for the guided sponsorship from sponsors of organizations or individuals linked to a digital media network. A related method includes providing a system that includes a networked electronic forum for the submission and display of a sponsorship proposal, receiving and processing an electronic communication from a community organization or individual, where the communication indicates acceptance of the sponsorship proposal. Sponsors may be automatically awarded advertising as sponsorship proposals reach predetermined support levels. The method also includes automatically sending an electronic communication with information regarding the acceptance of the sponsorship proposal by the community organization or individual. Further, the method includes receiving an electronic communication that include information demonstrating compliance with terms of the sponsorship proposal, and crediting the community organization for each communication demonstrating compliance with terms of the sponsorship proposal. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140025599 | POINT OF SALE ELECTRONIC FUNDRAISING - An e-fundraising system includes a mobile device and a server. The mobile device produces, or is configured to respond to, an indicator of one or more specific donation amounts. The mobile device sends a first message to the server in response to the indicator. The mobile device receives a second message in response to the sent first message. The mobile device receives a user input based on the received second message. The mobile device sends a third message to a server in response to the user input. A user of the mobile device donates a specific amount based on the sent third message. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140032438 | EMAIL PAYMENT GATEWAY FOR DONATIONS - An email payment gateway may be configured to send emails to potential donors. The emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with one or more fundraising campaigns, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the fundraising campaign associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the fundraising campaign, donor identity or donation amount. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the email payment gateway. The email payment gateway may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, process the donation on behalf of the donor. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040157 | Offer Presentation for Crowdfunding - Offers are presented to one or more users of a crowdfunding platform based upon information gathered from multiple users' activities across one or more campaigns. An offer may be provided to the fundraiser based on a campaign category, a campaign keyword, a campaign profile, offer profile or user activity history. A user profile may be used to determine an offer by comparing the profile to attributes of one or more offers. The selected offer can be presented to users such as funders, fundraisers and others. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140046864 | Virtual Funding Campaign Methodology - A virtual funding campaign method is disclosed. The method includes: executing instructions on a computing processor to electronically display a graphical user interface; receiving first pledge data of a first funder from at least one displayed field of the graphical user interface; receiving additional pledge data from at least one second funder from the at least one displayed field of the graphical user interface; modifying the first pledge data as a result of receiving the additional pledge data from the at least one second funder; after the modifying step, tabulating a pledge amount for the first funder that is related to the modified first pledge data; and electronically communicating the tabulated pledge amount to the first funder. A virtual funding campaign system is also disclosed. A computer program product encoded on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations is also disclosed. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140046865 | COLLABORATIVE GIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A collaborative giving system/method that coordinates the decimation and sharing of donor gifts within a cooperating group of donee recipients is disclosed. The system/method allows donee-specific donor databases to drive automated and spatially-distributed fundraising efforts for a collaborative project with donated funds being decimated and shared among collaborative donees while simultaneously guaranteeing that donor anonymity is maintained with respect to each individual donee-specific donor database. This donor/donee anonymity permits large groups of potentially diverse donors to be assembled to support collaborative projects while still maintaining donor privacy and donee autonomy. Within the context of this typical gifting application the disclosed system/method provides the necessary accounting interface and reports to ensure that the internal/external accounting/tax issues associated with the decimated gifting transaction are properly accounted for with the donor and all collaborating donees. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140046866 | Systems and Methods for the Distribution of Donations to Charities - A computerized system for managing the distribution of charitable donations among a plurality of beneficiaries selectable by the donors or by authorized third parties, wherein the system comprises data input means (an Internet site) enabling donors or authorized third parties who access the system via the data input means to each select one or more beneficiaries or to alter their selection of beneficiaries to create a personal donation profile or PDP. The system is so arranged that when a given donor or authorized third party accesses the data input means to establish or modify a selected PDP, he can adopt at least one previously-established PDP such that successive donors or authorized third parties can likewise establish new or modified PDPs which adopt previously-established PDPs. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140058968 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AGGREGATING AND DISTRIBUTING CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS - The present invention is a method for aggregating individual charitable contributions to fund public-space improvement projects as defined by consensus of the contributors and approved by a designated government officer, and by which service providers may submit competing bids for completing such projects, all by means of a charitable foundation formed for purposes of funding such projects and a website incorporating functions that address the formation and performance of contracts relating to such projects. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140058969 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR NETWORKED FUNDRAISING AND COMMUNICATION - A system, method and computer program product for networked fundraising and communication includes a platform for conducting regional and even global fundraising events in real-time. Individuals and/or groups from different geographic areas can participate in real-time in the events via the internet. For some events, the system enables normalized competition. Plural organizations sponsor and/or conduct events utilizing the system. The system is flexible allowing organizations to set participant entry requirements and event rules. The system functions to collect the event proceeds which are distributed following the event. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140081886 | METHOD OF PROVIDING SECTORIAL DONATION SERVICE FOR SMALL SUM DONOR - Disclosed is a method of providing a sectorial donation service for a small-sum donor, which is performed using a service provision server that provides a donation service to a donor, the method, comprising: opening a virtual donation foundation for which a donation field and a targeted collection amount are fixed; receiving information about a virtual donation foundation and a collection amount selected and inputted from a user terminal and registering the user as a donor when payment for the contribution amount is completed; selecting a winner among donors when the total amount of contributions reaches the targeted collection amount; receiving information about a beneficiary among donation recipients falling in the donation field of the virtual donation foundation selected in the step (2) inputted from a winner terminal of the selected winner; and (5) performing donation of the collection amount in the name of the winner to the inputted beneficiary. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140095404 | System and Method for Social Giving - A system for charitable giving. The system has a charitable network server that is operable to obtain from a transaction processing utility information relating to a transaction between a retailer and a user. The information corresponds to a donation amount to be directed from the retailer to a charity by the user. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140164275 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE DEVICE DONATIONS TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS - Systems and methods for automated, mobile device-based donations to charitable organizations including software operable on mobile communications devices. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164276 | Pledging Systems and Methods - The present disclosure provides a system comprising a controller and a memory that stores program instructions executable by the controller. By executing the program instructions, the controller displays a plurality of pledge options including an associated task, wherein each associated task includes an assigned score. The controller also receives a selection of at least one pledge option, a pledge value associated with the pledge option, and user information from each a plurality of users, and to communicate the pledge option, the pledge value, and the user information to an entity associated with the pledge. Upon confirmation of a user completing the associated task, the controller generates a user score based on the sum of all the assigned scores of the associated tasks completed by the user. The controller also provides a dashboard displaying the user score for each of the plurality of users. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164277 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION INDEX - A system and method for generating a community contribution index (CCI) for organizations and providing reports pertaining to the CCI for one or more organizations is described. The CCI for an organization is calculated based upon monetary donations provided by the organization and the members associated with the organization and the number of volunteer hours provided by the members. The CCI provides a standardized way to measure an organization's contributions to the community. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140180951 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONICALLY GENERATING, EXECUTING AND TRACKING CONTRIBUTION TRANSACTIONS - A contribution aggregation system enables a user to purchase or otherwise acquire a block of one or more contribution units from which to contribute desired amounts to selected recipients. This may be performed, for example, by the user logging on to a Web site or other system interface provided by the contribution aggregation computer system and then selecting individual recipients to receive selected donation or contribution amounts. These amounts from various different contributors are then aggregated and totaled to enable a single contribution transaction to be made to the recipient including the amounts contributed to the recipient form the various contributors. The current balance of the contributor's block of one or more contribution units is tracked and the contributor may also input or select comments and/or conditions associated with their individual contributions to individual recipients to be sent to the recipient or otherwise published. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140244535 | TRACKING SYSTEM FOR FOOD DONATION PROGRAMS - A food donation tracking system is provided for tracking food donations along a food donation route that includes a food recipient location and a plurality of food rescue locations. The system includes a display device at each of the food rescue locations, each display device being operable to generate a dynamic unique code specific to the food rescue location where the display device is located. A driver scans the dynamic unique code with a handheld unit. Tracking information is recorded and transmitted from the handheld unit to a central server. The tracking information includes location information identifying the food rescue location of the food donation pickup based on the dynamic unique code scanned at the food rescue location and time information corresponding to when the unique code was scanned at the food rescue location. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140279645 | BENFICIARY CROWDSOURCING - A platform can receive information about a product including a product cost. The platform can also receive a registration message that can designate the product and at least one beneficiary. The platform can provide a description of a campaign associated with the product and the beneficiary to at least one funder. One or more funders can fund the campaign. The funding amount for the campaign can be stored by the platform. The platform can determine that the campaign meets or exceeds at least one campaign threshold. Examples of campaign thresholds can include a time limit, a minimum funding amount, a maximum funding amount a minimum number of funders and a maximum number of funders. Based on the determining that the campaign meets or exceeds the at least one campaign threshold, the platform can cause the ownership of the product to be transferred to the beneficiary. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140304186 | Directed Charitable Giving System - A directed giving system allows a giver to conveniently manage their one-time and recurring gift giving, where the giver can easily find the desired beneficiary and/or project, and where the giver is in complete control of the entire process. A giver can configure a single or recurring gift in their bank's bill pay system or employers payroll system, and then configure the distribution of gifts in a gift processing system. The distribution of gifts can be single or recurring, and the distribution can be for a specific beneficiary or for a project. It may also be possible for the beneficiary to receive funds as a loan rather than a gift, where the loan is repaid and the funds can then be given or lent to another beneficiary. The system can also produce consolidated charitable receipts for the giver for tax purposes. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING A CONTEXT-SENSITIVE DONATION - A mobile device application includes computer-executable instructions configured to determine a donation context, and to select from among a plurality of non-profit organizations (NPOs) or charitable campaigns for receiving a donation from a user of the mobile device. In one embodiment, a machine-readable symbol decoder configured to extract scan-to-give data from a scanned scan-to-give symbol. The scanning of the scan-to-give symbol can initiate a charitable contribution. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140310193 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING ON-LINE DONATIONS - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for processing on-line donations is disclosed. An example embodiment includes elements to generate a donation badge for display on a web page; link the donation badge with an account on a payment site; receive a donation from a donor via the donation badge; and credit the donation to the account linked to the donation badge. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140317012 | ENABLING NON-MONETARY PHILANTHROPIC CURRENCY DONATION - A method of enabling philanthropic donation includes receiving from a user target data designating a donation target and item data corresponding to a non-monetary item. A processor automatically determines a currency amount of a monetary currency using the received item data and automatically produces a donation record indicating that the determined currency amount should be donated as specified by the designated donation target by a donating party different from the user. The donation can be verified and the user informed if the donation is not permitted. A system for enabling philanthropic donation includes the processor, a storage device storing target-menu data including indications of a plurality of donation targets, and a communications interface adapted to provide to the user at least some of the target-menu data and to receive the target and item data including social media functionalities for the user. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140324723 | PHILANTHROPY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHODS OF USE AND DOING BUSINESS - A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitable projects and provides remote users and others with management tools for inputting information about charitable projects, pre-approving or otherwise assessing them, and accessing and managing charitable project information, portfolios, user team member information and access. The system can provide a business based on, for example, providing system, access, charitable fund management, and charitable donation transaction fees. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150012455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING CHARITABLE CONATIONS - A method, apparatus, and system for placing and operating an automated donation station is disclosed. An automated donation station can be placed at a location upon receiving a request for an automated donation station from a charitable organization or event organizer. The automated donation station can be customized according to a particular requestor's needs. One or more donations may be collected using the donation station by displaying information to a donor, receiving a donation offer from the donor, and collecting donation details (e.g., payment information) from the donor. A donation receipt can be dispensed to the donor at the automated donation station. Further, donation gifts may be selected by the donor at the automated donation station and dispensed at the automated donation station. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150058244 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING REDIRECTS TO A SEARCH ENGINE - The present invention is related to methods and systems for processing search requests and for performing searches over a network. In an embodiment, a recipient designation is received from a user over a network. The designation indicates that future searches performed by the user are to be associated with the recipient (even if the subject matter of the search is not related to the recipient). A search request is received from the user; causing a search to be performed in response to the search request. An identifier corresponding to the recipient is stored in association with an indication regarding the occurrence of the first search request. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150074010 | NFC ENABLED CHARITABLE VOLUNTEERING AND GIVING - A method of using near field communication to facilitate charitable giving and volunteering. The method includes the steps of: determining, by a computing device, information about a person and information about a charitable organization based at least in part on reading a near field communication element; determining, by the computing device, whether the person desires to give to the charitable organization or to volunteer to help the charitable organization; sending, by the computing device, the information about the person to the charitable organization in an event that the person desires to volunteer to help the charitable organization; and sending, by the computing device, a donation to the charitable organization in an event that the person desires to give to the charitable organization. Also, computing devices that perform such methods. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150134556 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAISING DONATIONS - The present disclosure provides methods for raising donations by collecting and reviewing content from various information sources based on a set of criteria. The information sources can include user network information and third party information. The criteria can include keywords, parameters, or a combination thereof. The results can be used to prioritize prospects. The results can be used to customize communication with the prospects. In some cases, results based on multiple criteria can be overlaid. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150142688 | DONATION MANAGEMENT, PROMOTION, AND FUNDS DISTRIBUTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A process for collecting and distributing to multiple beneficiaries funds donated by multiple donors, including the steps of presenting to a donor a group of potential beneficiaries to which the donor may donate, providing to the donor a beneficiary selection means through use of which the donor may select one or more beneficiaries for effecting a donation, and providing the donor with access to a payment means through use of which the donor may make a payment to a fund managed by a process manager. The process further includes associating by the process manager the payment with the one or more selected beneficiaries, generating and transmitting to the donor a receipt means for memorializing the payment, creating a donor record in an automated records storage system that includes donor-identifying information, the donor's selected beneficiaries, and the associated amount of the payment by the donor, and generating beneficiary notification means for notifying the one or more selected beneficiaries that donated funds have been deposited for the selected beneficiaries' intended benefit and providing information on fund-retrieving steps for claiming the donated funds. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142689 | ACTIVITY MONITOR - Systems and methods that incentivize physical fitness of a user are discussed herein. A system can include a motion component and a control component. The motion component can monitor motion data associated with the user. The control component can provide one or more rewards to the user, wherein the rewards can be based at least in part on the user meeting a target associated with the motion data. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150310507 | USER ENGAGEMENT EVALUATION COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A set of instructions is described that causes a processor to gather data streams describing a fund raising activity of one or more participant. The data streams are indicative of aspects of the fund raising activity from a group of activities including donations originated by the one or more participant, engagement of the one or more participant, and awareness of the one or more participant. The data streams are analyzed with a rule set so as to generate a metric-based hierarchy of participants based on a composite of the participant's relative contributions to the aspects of the fund raising activity. The metric-based hierarchy is stored, and data signals indicative of at least a portion of the metric—based hierarchy are transmitted to at least one computing device in a format configured to be rendered upon a display screen by the computing device using at least one predefined algorithm. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150339737 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE FUNDRAISING - A computer program, method, and system for facilitating fundraising. The method comprises the initial step of receiving a digital image. An additional step includes receiving fundraising data, with the fundraising data comprising a total amount of funds to be raised for a fundraising campaign. An additional step includes partitioning the digital image into a plurality of tiles, with a number of tiles in the plurality being based on the fundraising data. A further step includes presenting on a graphic display the partitioned digital image. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150371290 | METHOD OF CORRELATING HUMAN ACTIVITIES WITH THIRD PARTY DONATIONS - A method of correlating human activities with third-party donations. A participant downloads an app and enrolls on a web site. The app assigns a human activity to the participant. The app quantifies and monitors the human activity. A commitment is received from a third-party sponsor to donate things of value to an organization that controls the app-based system, the controlling organization, in turn, making a contribution to a predetermined charitable business, preferably a 501(c)(3) organization, such as a shelter and/or rescue organization. The charitable business receives contributions from the controlling organization dependent on performance of the participant's human activity. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150379589 | DISCERNING CASH AND FIXED ASSET DONATIONS - A system and method of processing, within a single procedure, cash equivalents and fix assets from any disposition class. The method includes identifying the benefactor and asset to be donation. Once identified, the asset is classified into one of three disposition classes. The disposition classes are used to determine the value for valuing. Once the value is determined, an impact statement is generated. Depending on the disposition class, the item is either converted to funds directly or through an intermediary. Once the item is converted to funds, the funds are transferred to the identified benefactor. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160005088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GIVING AND RECEIVING CHARITABLE DONATIONS - Disclosed is a charitable donation interface and related systems and methods. The disclosed systems, methods, and interfaces allow a user to search and/or browse through one or more databases containing a plurality of charitable organizations, causes, and events. Charitable organization home pages allow charitable organizations to interact with users and provide information, and events allow individuals or organizations to create fund-raising campaigns to increase participation. User accounts are used to track user participation, provide rewards, and simplify the user donation process. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160048891 | MISERY INDEX FOR A COMMUNITY - Described are platforms, systems, and media for expressing negative sentiment toward media reflecting an adverse impact on a particular community. The sentiments are expressed via push notifications sent to devices of friends within the community. Also described are platforms, systems, and media for a mobile micro impulse philanthropic application. The application enables a donor to have their online media analyzed and associated with various causes. This allows the donor to donate to the cause without having to research what charity or organization might support what they wish to donate to. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160063579 | Method of Charitable Giving - A charitable giving method is disclosed that uses a social media platform to bring together individuals, businesses, and charitable causes. The use of the social media platform incentivizes individuals and businesses to increase their financial support to charitable causes. The individuals register certain demographic and psychographic information on the social media platform, and that information is used by the businesses and charitable causes in conjunction with directing charitable giving. The individuals and businesses gain recognition for their charitable donations through a visual representation on the charitable social media platform as well as on other social media platforms where the information is shared. The charitable causes receive an increase in donations and promotion of their charitable missions. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160092942 | TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING PHILANTHROPY AND VOLUNTEERING - The present invention provides a system for managing charitable funds in the ecosystem of corporations, philanthropists, volunteers and non-profits that do social good. Participants may sponsor and cause to issue a finite number of alternative currency units, with varying conditions on use. These units are transferred to volunteers who are supporting a non-profit organization corresponding to the volunteer hours spent by each. The earned units may be gifted by each volunteer to any non-profit organization. Alternatively, the units may be directly granted to a non-profit by corporations and philanthropists corresponding to the units earned by each volunteer. The non-profits voluntarily accept the units and spend it to generate social good. These new methods to pledge, sponsor, issue, buy, sell, earn, store, gift and spend the alternative currency units create a vibrant, community that multiplies the social good generated. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160110777 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DIRECT CHARITABLE GIVING - The present invention provides a method for making charitable contributions by collecting information related to at least one attribute associated with at least one targeted recipient of a contribution at one of a plurality of service provider locations, providing the information to at least one server communicatively coupled to at least one donor accessible application, wherein said application is resident on a device having a tangible computing processor, the processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer memory that stores instructions which, when executed on the processor, provides to the at least one donor a graphical user interface, and receiving through the at least one donor accessible application an authorization to provide a contribution from the at least one donor to the at least one targeted recipient at one of the plurality of service provider locations. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160125482 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING AND TRACKING CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS - A system and method for managing composite transactions comprising a main transaction and at least one annex operation in a set comprising a device for initiating a transaction, a device for proposing at least one annex operation according to characteristics of a main transaction and an annex operations management device, said device for proposing at least one annex operation being accessible by a plurality of separate devices for initiating a transaction and by a plurality of separate annex operations management devices. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160132942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSITING CONTRIBUTORS - A management system for managing, streamlining and automating the process of obtaining contributions for philanthropic entities (e.g., charities and other non-profit organizations), wherein user friendly Internet based processes are provided to (potential and actual) contributors that substantially eases the burden on such contributors in, e.g., contributing to such entities via planned giving or estate planning. For each of the philanthropic entities, the management system automates and facilitates the marketing and estate planning aspects for obtaining contributions in a manner that is consistent with the avowed beliefs and/or values of the entity, and that provides potential and actual contributors with contacts to professionals that also share the beliefs and/or values of the entity. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160180411 | System and Process for Collecting International Traveler Global Charity Contributions | 06-23-2016 |
| 20220138811 | AUTONOMOUS BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DONATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed are an autonomous blockchain-based donation system and a method thereof. According to the present invention, the autonomous blockchain-based donation system comprises: a campaigner terminal requesting a donation campaign; a donor terminal donating a token to the donation campaign requested by the campaigner terminal; and a donation organization terminal receiving the token donated in accordance with the donation campaign, and issuing a voucher corresponding to the received token. According to the present invention, the autonomous blockchain-based donation system and the method thereof allow each donor to be involved in deciding whether to execute a donation campaign via a blockchain-based donation process, thereby having an effect of securing the transparency of donation processes and embodying decentralization. In particular, the autonomous blockchain-based donation system can be configured to assign a donation influence to each donor based on their accumulated donations or results of their donation assessments and allow the donor to participate in deciding whether to execute a campaign agenda, thereby having an effect of enabling a donation system to autonomously operate based on rational collaborative donation processes and dispersed authority. | 05-05-2022 |
