{"id":6795,"date":"2004-12-29T23:57:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T06:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/29\/and-on-a-non-commercial-note.html"},"modified":"2004-12-29T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T06:57:02","slug":"and_on_a_non_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/29\/and_on_a_non_co.html","title":{"rendered":"And on a non-commercial note …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon.com<\/a> is hosting a donation page<\/a> (through their “Honor System” mechanism) to collect money for the American Red Cross in disaster relief efforts for the tsunami victims. Unlike usual Honor System donations (where Amazon takes 2.9% and $0.30 per donation), Amazon is forwarding all <\/em>money on to the ARC International . For those of you with Amazon One-Click accounts, it’s an extremely <\/em>hassle-free way to donate.<\/p>\n

To date (over the last two days), over $3.7MM has been given by 60,000-odd people.<\/p>\n

There are any number of other places where you can contribute (and, with a disaster of this magnitude, money is probably more useful than specific items), but I thought I’d pass on word about this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon.com is hosting a donation page (through their “Honor System” mechanism) to collect money for the American Red Cross in disaster relief efforts for the tsunami victims. 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