I just spent a little time there and set up a school fee fund cause for Life in Africa USA. Maybe its just me but I sure found the sight to be incredibly slow.

As far as I can see too, you can only have one cause. So for us who have more than one cause (school fee funds, OPOK Farms, Breakfast Club) it doesn't seem possible. I was also surprised that when you register as a shopper you can only pick one cause to support. Some people might like to spread it around a bit but to do that you have to completely change your cause. I would have liked to be able to select several causes and then pick which one I wanted the donation to go to.

I will explore more later and maybe have more thoughts to share.

oops. Someone just pointed out that you only get the $5 donation on the first buy per person. I was thinking you got it on each buy they made.

They do have some interesting tools to let you advertise your cause to friends and supporters. To tie this in with Razoo or Facebook would we have to send individual emails to people? Sorry if I am being dense, I am sick today and feeling a little muddled.

Evvy, you get a percentage of the purchase amount which depends on the seller. They are listed on the site.

Maybe the trick is to make LiA the cause rather than the specific projects within LiA.

Yes, I do see your point. I missed the percentage part. i will have to go back and reread.

I guess then I would have to have some plan in effect to divvy up the funds collected. I am supposing that the only transparent way to do it would be to split it equally among the different projects we support.

AH, thats a good idea. The disclosure not the xxx.com :)

I'll have to work on the wording of that.

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Shop to support Life in Africa's School Fees 2008 campaign at iGive.com: http://www.igive.com/html/refer. cfm?memberid=524199&causeid= 43292

Here's one idea of something we can do with this:

• create an ACT at Razoo (ie, Support Education for war affected children in Uganda by shopping for the holidays through iGive).
• post that act on of our related razoo causes

When you include the link above, life in africa comes up as the default cause if it's a new member registering at iGive

Actually, using Razoo to drive traffic to fundraising sites and pages through acts posted to groups, etc is something I was contemplating tonight. Why not?

You can also do this, of course, on Facebook, too, on your profile page, within groups in discussion and posted items. Maximize whatever you have got.

Anyone posted links like that Idealist?

ok so here's a razoo act: http://beta.razoo.com/acts/igive _for_lifeinafrica_schoolfees2008

If you've shopped and you're on razoo, be sure to let other razooers know!