Source: Business Wire
By: Company Press Release
(CHICAGO, IL) — Shop at iGive.com and a portion goes to charity. Thinking of buying your valentine a pair of silky red boxer? A magnetic poetry kit with dozens of ways to say, “I love you”? A digital camera to record your love? You can find thousands of ideas in one place any time of the day or night – and make your gift do double duty for any cause you care about – at iGive.com, the online shopping portal where a portion of every purchase goes to the charity of your choice.
With more than 180 merchants from Amazing Baskets and Amazon.com to Whole Foods and YakPak.com, the iGive.com mall is a one-stop shop where up to 20 percent of the purchase price goes to whatever cause the shopper designates – so every gift gives twice. How can you show your love? Let iGive.com count the ways:
1. A heart-shaped waffle iron to make your main squeeze breakfast in
bed ($49.95 at Cooking.com, 10 percent to your cause).
2. The movie you saw on your first date (Reel.com, 5 percent to your
cause).
3. A three-month membership in the Chocolate Lovers Club to treat
your honey’s sweet tooth – and your own ($109.95 at Gourmet
Market, 12.5 percent to your cause).
4. The rose garden she’s always wanted, ready for planting ($47.85
and up at Garden.com. 2.5 percent to your cause).
5. A custom CD with 12 songs of your choice – your first dance, your
favorite love song, the blow-you-away number from the last rock
concert you saw together ($19.95 from CDNow, 8 percent to your
cause).
6. Satin sheets for romantic evenings ($59.99 for a queen set in any
of six colors at Brylane Home, 2.5 percent to your cause).
7. Scented candles to set the mood ($8.95 and up from
Illuminations.com, 3 percent to your cause).
8. Red silk boxer shorts with embroidered initials for him, a
shortie Valentine kimono for her, and chocolate body paint for
both (Personal Creations, 7.5 percent to your cause).
9. A lobster dinner for two, including two whole pre-cooked Maine
lobsters, Maryland crab cakes, Manhattan clam chowder and
tiramisu for dessert ($59.95 from Fulton Street.com, 4.5 percent
to your cause).
10. 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex, a collection of step-by-step
seductions with sealed pages designed to be removed from the book
and opened in private by one partner to surprise the other
($23.96 at barnesandnoble.com, 4 percent to your cause).
Looking for more ideas? Go straight to www.igive.com/html/gift_ideas.cfm, where you’ll find a lifetime’s worth of suggestions for enchanted evenings, tete-a-tete dinners, romantic travel and even the kinds of gifts designed more for the love-of-the-game than the love-of-the-dame. (St. Louis Rams jersey, anyone?)
iGive.com is the Internet’s first and most successful venture into turning online shopping into a vehicle for charitable giving. Since its debut three years ago, the site has generated nearly $620,000 for thousands of different organizations, ranging from animal shelters and school marching bands to medical research foundations, women’s shelters and missing children advocacy groups.
Remember: Shop through iGive.com to give to your cause as well as your sweetheart. iGive.com is changing online shopping – for good.
Contact:
Allison Clark, 847/492-6965
Laura Mauman, 312/836-6300
