If you use a tablet or phone app for your Amazon purchases, you need to turn on the smile function and register Kokonut Koalition as your charity there, too.Īs a community, everyone in Hawaii should be using Amazon Smile - directing donations back to our local nonprofits. We are an IRS-recognized nonprofit organization, listed as a Silver-level charity with GuideStar, and registered as a charity with the State of Hawaii. Search for “kokonut koalition” or our federal EIN number (83-2744071). Go to, click on the Smile Program box in the top left and “choose” or “change” your charity recipient. Kokonut Koalition is registered with Amazon Smile, so you can use your regular Amazon purchases to donate to us at no extra cost to you. You can monitor your donations and switch to other charities at any time. This is a way for anyone with a Prime membership to donate to a deserving charity without costing you any money. Almost everything on Amazon is eligible for this program and will generate a donation. You can see whether a product is eligible to generate a donation right on the product page. The donations come from Amazon’s side of the transaction. No difference in prices or availability, no extra fees. All you have to do is go to and shop as normal. Shame.The Amazon Smile program diverts half a percent of the money Amazon makes from you to a charity of your choice, from a list of over a million registered 501c3 nonprofits. One user wrote on Amazon's public Facebook page, "every bit helped our local charities.
"NO, NO, NO!!!!!! You do not realize HOW VERY MUCH Amazon Smile has helped us small non-profits!!," Facebook user Barbara Weber Seaman wrote, who appears to be one of the founders of Felines Under Rescue nonprofit in Alabama.Ĭustomers seemed to be frustrated, too. "I'm so sad to see the donations go," Genna Nessel, wrote in a Facebook group connected to The Amputee Connection of Redlands, a California nonprofit that supports people who have experienced the loss of a limb. #amazonsmile #amazon /O67cPhQ3rV- Crouton & January 19, 2023
I can tell you as an animal not for profit it made a huge difference to us. Still, several nonprofits across the country are expressing shock and anger at Amazon for abruptly discontinuing the program late Wednesday.Īnother animal-related nonprofit, a sanctuary in New York called Crouton & Friends, Tweeted that the donations (it's unclear what the timeline was) "meant the world."Īmazon claims the Amazon Smile program didn't have an impact.
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