On December 20th, we ran a promotion wherein you could get any of our apps for $1 apiece, with the understanding that you’d donate the cost savings to a charity of your choice. Obviously, we have no idea how many people actually donated, versus those who just saw a chance to buy our apps on the cheap—hopefully a fair percentage of people at least gave something to a charity of their choice.<\/p>\n
From the responses we did receive, the distribution of charities was quite wide. Browsing the emails and tweets, here’s every charity we can identify that received some money from our customers on Donation Day (in no particular order):<\/p>\n
Salvation Army<\/a> \u2022 Oxfam Japan<\/a> \u2022 Partners in Health<\/a> \u2022\u00a010 Days of Giving Food Shelf \u2022\u00a0Gruft – Caritas Vienna<\/a> \u2022 World Wildlife Fund<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Bible for Today<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Charity:Water<\/a> \u2022 Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Celiac Disease Center<\/a> \u2022 Mind, the Mental Health Charity<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Sant\u00e9-Sud<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Action Contre La Faim<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence<\/a> \u2022 National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation<\/a> \u2022 Oakton Community College Educational Foundation<\/a> \u2022 Hurricane Sandy Appeal – British Red Cross<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Wikimedia Foundation<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Coalition to Stop Gun Violence<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Jehova’s Witnesses<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger<\/a> \u2022 Warren Public Library<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Mateno<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Motor Neurone Disease Association<\/a> \u2022 Local food drive \u2022\u00a0Local church parish \u2022\u00a0Nyx – Free public internet<\/a> \u2022\u00a0American Red Cross<\/a> \u2022\u00a0Local children’s charity \u2022\u00a0Housing Works<\/a> \u2022 WaterAid<\/a> \u2022 WCNY Public TV<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Warren General Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n That’s quite a list, and we obviously hope that there are many other charities that benefited from our Donation Day; we heard from only a sampling of our customers.<\/p>\n To all of you who bought and then contributed to a charity on Donation Day, we thank you for following through on something that was based on nothing more than trusting people to do the right thing—both of us felt really good about what was going on as we read the tweets and emails. And for those of you who bought the apps cheaply but haven’t donated, please do so. This wasn’t a giveaway on our part, it was an idea to raise money for charity. So please, contribute your savings and help make a difference.<\/p>\n