424results about "Fundraising management" patented technology

Method and apparatus for collecting and storing information about individuals in a social network. A member account is created by verifying a user's identity and collecting user identity data from the user. The user sends an invitation to one or more members or non-members. The one or more members or non-members can accept or decline the user's invitation. If the one or more non-members accept or decline, they must create a member account. The one or more members post paid comments or free comments about the user and one or more user weight values are calculated based on one or more of the following: a number of members in a user's group and their one or more user weight values, a total value of posted paid comments about the user and volume of posted comments about the user. The user can post a reply to the posted comment by the one or more members.

A fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and / or characterize information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. Fact checking results are able to be validated by re-fact checking the fact check results.

A method of encouraging charitable donations by individuals who are members of a social network is disclosed. A user creates a member account by supplying user identity data from the user and creates a campaign, wherein the created campaign is associated with one or more charities and a financial goal. The user sends invitation to one or more members or non-members and the one or more members or non-members may accept or decline the user's invitation. The one or more members are given the option to donate any amount of money to a charity to post comments about the user, where the monetary value of the donation is associated with the comments posted such that a higher amount donated represents a higher trustworthiness of the comments. The one or more members or non-members may support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities to help reach the financial goal. One or more user weight values are calculated based at least on a total volume of members or non-members who support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities and / or a total monetary value of the money donated by the one or more members or non-members, where the one or more user weight values represent reliability of a user's reputation.

The present invention includes an automatic bill payment enrollment system for recurring donations, which allows donors to automatically charge charitable donations on a recurring basis to a financial account. In one embodiment, the invention uses a donation portal having various webpages to allow a donor to donate to all U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations. In an alternative embodiment, a donor may donate to any other desired organizations. The system may also incorporate a filter for restricting monies being sent to terrorist organizations. The invention also includes a loyalty point system, wherein loyalty points may be donated to a charity. In another exemplary embodiment, the invention also facilitates employee gift matching.

An Internet of Thing (IoT) device includes a camera coupled to a processor; and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor. Blockchain smart contracts can be used with the device to facilitate secure operation.

A method and system for making a donation to a third party, wherein a user executes a purchase transaction using a card linked to a user account at a financial institution, the user account storing at least one indicia of value associated with the user. The user is queried via a point of donation device if a donation is desired to be made by the user to a third party, and if desired, then value is transferred from the user account to a designated third party as a donation to the third party. The donation may be in the form of cash or cash equivalent, reward points, or other like value. In another aspect referred to as “topping off”, a user executes a purchase transaction, the amount of the transaction corresponding to a purchase amount. The user tenders payment for the purchase transaction in a tender amount, the tender amount being greater than the purchase amount. The user is queried if a donation is desired to be made by the user to a third party for a donation amount, wherein the donation amount is the difference between the ender amount and the purchase amount. If the user indicates that a donation is to be made to a third party, then the donation amount is transferred to a designated third party as a donation to the third party in lieu of providing change for the transaction back to the user.

A new generation online e-commerce and networking system is disclosed. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the online e-commerce and networking system is based on: 1) a new model of meeting individuals' work and life needs and integrating entities' processes to create large online networks; 2) a new advertising model of associating online advertisements with goods services, activities, and incentives that meet users' needs to allow users to solicit or request sponsorships so that direct interaction between users and advertisers is enabled; and 3) a new community model to enable entities to build deeper and better relationships with users through entities' direct involvement in online community building and real and virtual event hosting for users to participate.

A system and method for funding a collective account via aggregating usage of electronic tags is disclosed. The system and method promotes the use of electronic tags, and the funding of collective accounts that may be associated with charitable or other philanthropic causes. Further benefits may be realized by replenishing the prefunded account that serves as the source of funds for the electronic tag to an affinity account that also benefits the charitable or other philanthropic cause.

To enable a non-profit to make informed decision about how to spend its limited resources efficiently to maximize its donations, systems and methods to determine prospect propensity and prospect capacity to identify what types of donations, such as annual gifts, major one-time gifts, or planned gifts, the non-profit should solicit from its pool of prospective donors and the likely amount of each such gift. Systems and methods that enable the non-profit further to identify what types of planned gift, such as bequests, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, pooled income funds, and life insurance, it should solicit from each of its prospective donors. The systems and methods use models developed using statistical analysis to generate relative scores for all prospective donors in the pool. Such scores and additional wealth information are provided to the non-profit in electronic format for further manipulation and use.

Prioritized queues of advertising and content data are generated by a queue builder and sent to an on-line queue manager. A computer mediated communications network provides content and subscriber data to the queue builder and receives content segment play lists from the on-line queue manager. An exposure accounting module calculates and stores information about the number of exposures of targeted material received by subscribers and generates billing information. An information warehouse manager is employed to receive data from advertisers' data bases and third party sources as well as from the computer mediated communications network.

A system and method for funding a collective account via aggregating usage of electronic tags is disclosed. The system and method promotes the use of electronic tags, and the funding of collective accounts that may be associated with charitable or other philanthropic causes. Further benefits may be realized by replenishing the prefunded account that serves as the source of funds for the electronic tag to an affinity account that also benefits the charitable or other philanthropic cause.

A method for enabling registered consumers to direct matching charitable contributions donated by a plurality of program partners to a plurality of designated beneficiaries through a directed giving service provider based on consumer purchases during a predetermined purchase period. The method also enables registered consumers to donate their own funds, and to transfer their direction rights to at least one other consumer and / or consumer account. Program partners can include individual retail stores, retail store chains, credit providers and product manufacturers conducting business either at a physical location, by telephone, direct mail, or online via a web site, etc. The directing rights generated by purchases of qualified products for all registered consumers are aggregated by the directed giving service provider and individual estimates of amounts to be directed to designated beneficiaries are provided to individual consumers to enable them to allocate contribution percentages to each selected beneficiary. A directed giving service provider or charitable foundation receives funds from the program partners on a regular basis and sends those funds to the beneficiaries chosen by the consumers on a regular basis. The directed giving service provider establishes standards for beneficiary qualification and works to ensure that payments are made only to those beneficiaries meeting such standards.

A method for facilitating the matching of riders and volunteer drivers where a transportation request is communicated by or on behalf of one or more riders to one or more potential volunteer drivers who are selected from a pool of potential volunteer drivers, and where the selected potential volunteer drivers may either accept or decline the transportation request.

Systems and methods are provided to facilitate donations via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility and an interchange having a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. For a payment to a merchant, the common format processor provides a user interface configured to present charity donation options in response to a phone number being specified in the user interface to identify a fund source. The common format processor uses one of the converters to communicate with a mobile phone at the phone number to confirm the payment to the merchant and a donation to a separate charity organization specified via the user interface.

The system and method for delivery of goods ordered via the Internet utilizes a delivery box having a front door with an electronic lock and electronic key reader for receipt of goods ordered via the Internet. Goods are shipped in a transport box having an interior space and a device for controlling the temperature within the interior space. The delivery box has at least one interior transport box receptacle where a transport box containing goods is placed on delivery. A power and data interface is established between a delivery box control circuit and a transport box control circuit the transport box is placed into one of the receptacles, so that the delivery box control circuit can power the transport box control circuit and environment controlling device. A security code is downloaded from an Internet merchant site to the delivery box, and stored onto a keycard, when an order is placed.

Systems and methods for public ledger authentication includes receiving a first previous authentication public ledger address and a first current authentication public ledger address from a user. A verified static user key is identified in a public ledger using the first previous authentication public ledger address. A second current authentication public ledger address is then provided to the user for use in the current authentication attempt. Authentication attempt information is determined that includes a number of authentication attempts by the user, and used in a hash operation with the verified static user key to generate a first user authentication key. A second user authentication key is retrieved from the public ledger that was sent from the first current authentication public ledger address to the second current authentication public ledger address in a transaction, and the user is authenticated if the second user authentication key matches the first user authentication key.

A system and method for managing charitable contributions and community revitalization includes efficiently providing donations to charities, matching donors with recipients, identifying entities and organizations that may be able to help a community meet the development goals thereof, and facilitating communications between information providers and individuals seeking information. The system and method also include developing a social network of individuals and organizations who are interested in the charitable contributions and community revitalization, and providing information regarding donations made by members of the social network and other contributors.

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing health care information to health care providers and for obtaining information pertaining to the practice of a health care provider by providing incentives for provision of such information.

In one example, we describe methods and systems for automated online merchant charity donations. In one embodiment, a donation agent interacting with a merchant website can offer an online user an option to allocate at least a portion of a payment for or price of a purchase, associated with a transaction made by the user via the merchant website, to be donated by a merchant corresponding to the merchant website on behalf of the user to a charity of the user's choosing. If the online user exercises the option, the donation agent can calculate an amount of the donation to be made and store the calculated donation amount in a database. The donation agent can disburse the calculated donation amount to the charity selected by the customer. The method also works for the off-line model. The points earned can be combined with a college scholarship award mechanism.

A system and method for efficiently conducting a fundraising campaign over a wide-area network is provided. In accordance with the invention a method for conducting an efficient fundraising campaign by an organization over a wide-area network includes hosting a website, registering on the website, making a charitable donation on the website, contacting third parties via email messages soliciting charitable donations, and providing one or more reports, on the website, including information on the status of the fundraising campaign. The method further includes contacting third parties, via email messages, to provide information about one or more teams participating in a competition associated with the fundraising campaign. The method further includes providing information, in the reports, about the third parties that have been contacted via email messages. The method further includes providing, in the reports, a real time status of the fundraising campaign, and wherein the real time status provide a convenient means for monitoring the progress of the campaign

Implementations of various systems and methods for using a social network, a game engine network and a network to provide users of the networks the ability to integrate their everyday personal and business transactions with charity projects and people globally. Users of the methods on the network will use a reality based game strategy and structure through the use of reality, augmented reality and mixed reality technologies to integrate and link their everyday tasks of personal and business transactions to charity network projects and users in an invention that formerly did not exist. Implementations of methods described herein will link people who need help with those who transact or participate on the system in everyday business transactions. Implementations of methods for users will then have a scrapbook of how their everyday common tasks and transactions added up in a record that truly changed the world and influenced people towards social good.

Disclosed is a system and method for facilitating charitable donations. A first possible outcome of a game is associated with a first charity, online wagers against the first possible outcome are accepted and in response to the first possible outcome actually occurring, all, or a portion, of the wagered sums are electronically credited to an account associated with the first charity.

The present invention pertains to systems and methods for managing, creating, and conducting online personal fundraising campaigns. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth a system, method and computer program product for creating and managing online personal fundraising campaigns. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include, e.g., but not limited to, receiving a request to establish a personal fundraising campaign from an initiator for benefit of a beneficiary at a central controller; receiving a plurality of donations at the controller; and disbursing at least a portion of the funds to the beneficiary.

A system and method for funding a collective account via aggregating usage of electronic tags is disclosed. The system and method promotes the use of electronic tags, and the funding of collective accounts that may be associated with charitable or other philanthropic causes. Further benefits may be realized by replenishing the prefunded account that serves as the source of funds for the electronic tag to an affinity account that also benefits the charitable or other philanthropic cause.

A system and method for funding a collective account via aggregating usage of electronic tags is disclosed. The system and method promotes the use of electronic tags, and the funding of collective accounts that may be associated with charitable or other philanthropic causes. Further benefits may be realized by replenishing the prefunded account that serves as the source of funds for the electronic tag to an affinity account that also benefits the charitable or other philanthropic cause.

A method and system for use of a game with charity donations. In one example, a donation agent interacting with a merchant website can offer an online user an option to allocate at least a portion of a payment for or price of a purchase, associated with a transaction made by the user via the merchant website, to be donated by a merchant (corresponding to the merchant website), on behalf of the user, to a charity of the user's choosing. The donation agent can disburse the calculated donation amount to the charity selected by the customer. The points earned can be combined with a college scholarship award mechanism. The game encourages people to participate in the charity in a fun way, e.g., as a hobby every day, with a large user base.

A computer-implemented method and apparatus for processing on-line donations is disclosed. An example embodiment includes elements to generate a donation badge for display on a web page; link the donation badge with an account on a payment site; receive a donation from a donor via the donation badge; and credit the donation to the account linked to the donation badge.

A computer-implemented method that requires an inventive special-purpose software apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises software subsystems that facilitate Patrons using a Mobile Application, to easily find and then submit gratuity payments to Service Providers.

A computer-implemented method and system for calculating a metric of a user's social or environmental performance among a plurality of users. The processor executing the computer executable instructions identifies opportunities for social action be included in a content feed addressable to the user and provides opportunities generated by organizations to the user. The processor monitors interactions between the user and other users / organizations, monitors a type of interaction and associated social / environmental impact of the interactions, stores the interactions in a user profile, and determines from the user profile a social / environmental achievement or new contribution by the user. For each social / environmental achievement / contribution, the processor assigns a numerical value to an amount, a frequency, a location of the user, and a quality of the user profile data representative of the user's influence in each social / environmental achievement or contribution.