Are you one of the hundreds of thousands out there who subscribe to one of the many different "daily deal" websites? Well, this new website is an interesting spin on daily deal sites - with a philanthropic focus.
While deal sites like Groupon, Living Social, and Google Deals feature a new sale product from a new company every day, Philanthroper.com features a new nonprofit every day. Instead of purchasing a product, subscribers to their website can choose to donate $1 if the featured nonprofit of the day moves them to do so.
It's great to see the nonprofit world staying on top of trends like this. Wouldn't it be interesting to do the same for volunteering, rather than just donations? What if every day there was a new volunteer opportunity in the area on a subscription website, and members could sign up to volunteer their time when a position that interested them popped up?
Perhaps that's just where volunteerism is heading.
Want to check out a little more about sites like Philanthroper? Check out the Idealist Blog about it.
I like that idea!
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