发明名称 |
COMMUNITY COMMERCE FUNDRAISING SYSTEM AND METHOD |
摘要 |
A community commerce system and method is centered about a common website and electronically generated gift cards, or e-gift cards. The system and method encourages what is referred to herein as “community commerce” among several classes of participants, including: i) merchants/business owners; ii) shoppers; and iii) charities/nonprofits/fundraisers. A member may use the website to purchase electronic e-gift cards, redeemable at a merchant's place of business. Each e-gift card is associated with an individual merchant, has a face value, and further has an identified quantity of donation dollars. Each merchant establishes their own e-gift card, determining both the face value of each e-gift card and how many donation dollars are to be given to shoppers in exchange for each e-gift card purchase. |
申请公布号 |
US2015213523(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.07.30 |
申请号 |
US201514605703 |
申请日期 |
2015.01.26 |
申请人 |
NDP Group, LLC |
发明人 |
Tomich Dean Alan;Wright Gary Leroy;Ross Lawrence John |
分类号 |
G06Q30/06;G06Q40/00 |
主分类号 |
G06Q30/06 |
代理机构 |
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代理人 |
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主权项 |
1. A method of fundraising for a charitable or nonprofit organization, comprising:
permitting a plurality of merchants to establish e-gift cards for sale on a website, each of the gift cards having a face value and a donation value; facilitating the purchase of e-gift cards by users of the website; transferring funds to the merchant upon a user's purchase of an e-gift card established by the merchant, the funds having a value of the face value of the gift card less the donation amount; adding the donation amount to a donation dollars account maintained on behalf of the user; permitting a plurality of charitable or nonprofit organizations to establish fundraising projects on the website; permitting a user to allocate some or all of the user's donation dollars account to a selected fundraising project; and transferring funds to the charitable or nonprofit organization associated with the selected fundraising project in an amount allocated by the user. |
地址 |
Joliet IL US |