HOUSTON — Shop2Care, a new not-for-profit online charitable shopping program, has selected The Rose as one of its first cause partners. An initial grant from the Shop2Care Foundation of $5,000 has already provided 35 women under the age of 40 with mammograms and navigation to additional related healthcare assistance.
Shop2Care chose The Rose as a partner due to its strong collaborative programming, proven network, and high social return on investment. The Rose anticipates that it will be the recipient of thousands of dollars of future donations from Shop2Care members as they direct their retailer rebates generated from their normal online shopping.
“The uninsured still exist and will continue to exist for many years to come. As a result, we are looking for additional methods to ensure that we can continue our quality breast health care to all women regardless of their ability to pay. What impressed us about Shop2Care is that members get the chance to help our women at no additional cost to them. Simply by doing what they normally do – online shopping – and taking that one additional step of choosing ‘Health’, members make a major difference,” said Dorothy Gibbons, CEO and Co-Founder of The Rose.
Shop2Care founder, Mark Asofsky, a dedicated philanthropist, adds, “Shop2Care donates consumers’ retailer rebates, when directed by members to do so, to nonprofit agencies that create significant impact on specific areas of need in the United States. We believe that The Rose will be a strong cause partner, helping Shop2Care powerfully impact the issue of women’s health.”
The Shop2Care experience includes a website and browser app. After signing up at www.shop2care.org, download the Shop2Care browser app, and seamlessly shop directly from participating retailers’ sites using your normal accounts and passwords. The app will allow participating retailers to recognize that you are a Shop2Care member and credit any rebates/donations earned. You may also continue to shop directly from the Shop2Care site at www.shop2care.org, however, with the browser app installed, you do not need to.
Each time you visit a participating retailer’s site, a Shop2Care message will be visible at the top of the page and you simply click on the DONATE button before shopping to have the retailer send a rebate/donation to Shop2Care after you make a purchase (at no extra cost to you).
Shop2Care’s partnership with The Rose is described in more detail on the Shop2Care website, at www.shop2care.org in the ‘Cause’ section under ‘Health’.
AboutShop2Care
Shop2Care is an innovative charitable shopping program that enables it members to generate donations for causes they care about all while shopping online, at no additional cost to them. Members can direct their donation dollars to any number of the following causes: human services, hunger relief, health, children’s services and education. Shop2Care’s mission is to enable anyone to become a philanthropist simply by purchasing the products and services they already need or want while seamlessly shopping on their favorite online sites; to identify and highlight responsible, effective and impactful nonprofit organizations within the United States; and to raise money to benefit those in need in America. For more information on Shop2Care, or to register for free, visit: www.shop2care.org.
