Spread hope by getting involved. Here are some easy, free ways to benefit the Elle Foundation, the first two are especially great for the Holiday Season!!
Buy your Cards at Cards for Causes: Buy your personalized Holiday Cards, Invitations, Annoucements, Company Cards, and many more types of cards that benefit the Elle Foundation. When you shop at this site, 20% of your purchase is donated to the charity of your choice at no extra cost to you. Click here for more information: Cards for Causes & The Elle Foundation.
Search the Internet or Shop Online: Instead of doing your internet searches through your old search engine, use www.goodsearch.com. Goodsearch is a yahoo powered search engine that donates 1 cent for every search to your favorite charity. You can also shop through Goodsearch from more than 600 major retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, BestBuy, etc. Those retailers then donate a portion of the purchase price of your items to your designated charity and often offer special discounts, like free shipping, for going through Goodsearch to make your purchase. It's that simple. Just make sure you choose "Elle Foundation" before you start searching or shopping. You can also download a Goodsearch toolbar and/or make Goodsearch your homepage.
Tell your Family and Friends: Email your friends and family the link to our website to spread the word about the Elle Foundation and Congenital Heart Defects.
Hold your own Fundraiser: There are many easy fundraisers you can do. For example: Denim Days (employees at your workplace make a small donation to wear jeans on Friday to benefit the Elle Foundation), Hosting a Party (many organizations, like The Pampered Chef, allow the hostess will donate a portion of the sales to the charity of your choice in lieu of free items), you can even donate the proceeds of a yard sale or car wash. Fundraising can be simple and fun!
Remember to spread the word about The Elle Foundation and Goodsearch.com. One cent may not seem like much, but think of the tremendous power if you spread the word to your friends, family, and co-workers and ask them to continue spreading the word as well. Also, consider asking your employer to download the Goodsearch toolbar to all the computers at your workplace and order their office supplies from www.goodshop.com. We have even provided you with a sample email below that you can copy and paste and email to your employer or office manager asking them to Good Shop for The Elle Foundation.
Sample Email (feel free to customize to your liking)
I am writing to provide you with information on an online shopping site - www.goodshop.com. Good Shop provides one stop shopping access to hundreds of major retailers (Office Depot, Office Max, Sams Club, Dell, etc.), but unlike going directly to the retailer site, allows you to shop for charity at no extra cost to you. Good Shop works with these retailers to donate a percentage of online shopping to the non-profit organization of the shoppers choice (the average is 3%, but some retailers donate considerably more) .
I would like to ask (Company Name) to consider using www.goodshop.com for all of our online shopping and would appreciate it if you would choose "Elle Foundation" as your charity of choice. The Elle Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises money for research, treatment and awareness of Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs), which means a heart defect that is present at birth. CHDs affect 1 in every 100 people and research and treatment for CHDs is extremely underfunded. For more information on Congenital Heart Defects and The Elle Foundation, please visit www.theellefoundation.org.
I appreciate your consideration to Good Shop for this important cause.
