Ideal Bite

Feel like you can never use your miles or decide which credit card to use each day?

01.30.2006

Submitted by idealbite on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 6:00pm.

The Bite:

Pick a credit card that supports your favorite charity and make the choice an easy one. There are several cards out there that give bonuses to your favorite charities based on how much you charge.

The Benefits:

Select from a number of worthy causes such as: peace, human rights, economic justice, animal protection, and the environment.
Continue shopping as usual and you’ll be making contributions to the charity of your choice effortlessly. In most cases, there’s no additional cost for participating.
Enjoy your everyday purchases even more. Feel good knowing that the next time you fill your shopping cart, you’ll also be making a contribution towards helping the needy, our planet included.

Personally Speaking:

We both have Working Assets credit cards (see below), which saw waaaayyyy too much “charitable giving” over the holidays. Oops.

Wanna Try:

Working Assets Credit Card– For every transaction you make, $0.10 is donated to charities working for peace, human rights, economic justice, education, and the environment.
Defender’s of Wildlife Credit Card– MBNA contributes $.02 to Defender’s of Wildlife for every $10 charged. It may not sound like much, but so far MBNA has already donated more than $3.8 million.
MileDonor – Got miles to burn? Let this nonprofit help you donate them for “personal and charitable use worldwide.”
Red American Express - the brainchild of Bono; proceeds go to the global fight against AIDS.
CornCard USA - is your company or organization issuing credit cards? Encourage them to try this corn-based option.