National Foundation for Cancer Research Joins Online Charity Shopping Mall
The National Foundation for Cancer Research is partnering with iGive. com to allow consumers to support various charities, including NFCR, through online shopping.
Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) December 1, 2006
The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) announced today that they have created a new partnership that allows supporters to help raise money by doing their shopping online through iGive. com, the first online charity shopping mall. iGive. com enables individuals to shop online at over 600 reputable stores and simultaneously support any cause they wish, such as NFCR. Up to 26% or more of every purchase is donated to the selected cause at no extra cost to shoppers or causes.
"iGive. com is an excellent and easy way to raise funds for the fight against America's number one killer--cancer. Many of our supporters already shop online and now they can use that purchasing power to help NFCR's research programs," commented Franklin C. Salisbury, Jr., president of NFCR. "We're excited about the continued funds this technology, and iGive. com, will enable our supporters to contribute for breakthrough cancer research that are helping to save lives every day."
"iGive. com's mission is to provide a reliable, valuable, secure and easy-to-use tool to help individuals support their favorite causes while shopping online," explained Robert Grosshandler, founder and CEO of iGive. com. "We're delighted that NFCR is utilizing iGive. com and the information age to help save lives."
IGive. com is the Internet's first venture for turning online shopping into a vehicle for charitable giving. In addition to supporting any cause they wish, users can also track, directly on the site, their donations to causes and the total amount their causes have raised. iGive. com offers shoppers a choice of more online merchants than any other online charity mall.
About the National Foundation for Cancer Research
Since its founding in 1973, NFCR has spent more than $230 million funding basic science cancer research and cancer prevention education focused on understanding how and why cells become cancerous. NFCR is dedicated to funding scientists who are discovering cancer's molecular mysteries and translating these discoveries into therapies that hold the hope for curing cancer. For more information, visit www. NFCR. org or call 1-800-321-CURE (2873).
About iGive. com
Since its debut in 1997, iGive. com has raised more than $1,700,000 for thousands of nonprofit organizations and worthy causes, ranging from animal shelters, school marching bands, medical research foundations to women's shelters and missing children's advocacy groups. For more information or to register with iGive. com, visit www. iGive. com.
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