New philanthropy website coming soon


Thank you to everyone who voted on the choices for the domain name for the new website. Based on the polling, I will probably be going with donateBetter.org/com, but might possible choose simpleHelping.org/com instead. Below is the background on the new site.


I'm starting a new website to make it easier for people to make donations to nonprofits, and I need help choosing a domain name. 
I hope you'll let me know which domain names you think are best by voting at right.  But first, let me explain about the new site.

On my new site, donors will be able to give to many groups simultaneously with one click, and they'll won't get any junk mail as a result of their donation. That solves these problems with charitable donations that donors would otherwise face:

  1. Charities typically trade donors' addresses with other groups, so after someone donates they get flooded with solicitations.  Many such donors become ex-donors, never giving again, because they don't care to be mail-bombed.

  2. Someone wants to donate to lots of groups but has only a little money to give.  How do you give to 25 groups if you have only $25?  Such people might give to only one group, and feel bad that they can't give to more groups.

  3. The donor has enough money to donate to dozens of groups, but donating to dozens of groups one at a time is a pain.  So they don't spread their money as widely as they might like -- or they do spread their money widely, but spend a lot of time doing so.  (And then get deluged with more solicitations.)
My site will solve these problems by accepting donations from the public, and passing them on to the non-profits.  That way, my group will be the one getting the junk mail, not the donors.  And my site will actually be a registered non-profit, too, so donors' gifts will still be tax-deductible.  Also, donors will be able to choose as many orgs as they want to donate to, and donate to all of them at once with just one payment to my group.  So donors with only a little to give can still donate to many groups, and donors with a lot to give can donate to many groups easily.  For example, a donor can pick 10 groups and give $25 total if that's all they can afford, or $5000 total if they want to give big.  Either way, my system will tally the portion earmarked for each group, and each month I'll send a check to each group for their accumulated donations.  (I'll also post a complete accounting online, along with all the canceled checks.  I intend this group to be a model for transparency.)

Yes, I know that JustGive and NetworkForGood forward donations for donors, but they're not nearly as easy to use as I plan to make the new site.  JustGive also requires a minimum $10 to each group, which limits how many groups a donor can give to.  Finally, the new site will do something that JustGive and NetworkForGood don't:  apply strong encouragement to non-profits to stop trading donor information (or at least put a checkbox on the donor form by allowing donors to opt-out of trading).  Only the groups that don't trade address will be the default charities for the donations the site collects, and the site will specifically list which charities trade and which don't.  If a nonprofit that trades its donor list wants to get on the site's front page to get more donations, and wants to stop being outed as a donor-info-trader, they will have to start treating their donors' privacy with more respect.

Make no mistake, the trading of donor info is a widespread concern.  Trent Stamp, president of Charity Navigator, told USA that info-trading is the "No. 1 complaint" his group hears from donors.

I'm excited about getting more people involved in the giving process by making giving easier.  So my next step is choosing a domain name.  I hope you'll let me know your opinion about these various domain name ideas.  Please see the survey on the top-right of this page.  Thanks for your help!  -- Michael Bluejay


Domain names already taken   (domain must be available in both .com and .org)
Names in italics were suggested by voters.
4givingsake
alldonate
anonymousgifting
anonymousgiving

bettergiving
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donatetoday
donatewisely


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esharing
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mygift

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openhands
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