Setting up AmazonSmile so a percentage of your Amazon purchases go to Cyclone Gridiron Club (directly to ISU Football; or other charity of choice)

[t-noah]

Buying things from Amazon can be set up to help ISU football, Cyclone Gridiron Club!

Do you buy things from Amazon?

If you want to help in some way but can't or don't want to make a donation for whatever reasons, you CAN help the Gridiron Club if you buy with Amazon. Set up Amazon Smile and select the Iowa State Cyclone Gridiron Club. Every time you make a purchase through Amazon Smile, they will donate a small percentage of what you spend to the Gridiron Club. (Just make sure before you hit the final purchase button that you're under Amazon Smile and not the regular Amazon page....yeah...there's a difference.)

You can also see how much you've contributed and how much the club has earned in overall donations.

I'm sure every little bit helps.

In more detail: Go to your regular Amazon web page, then under top banner hover over but don't click "Accounts & Lists", then click "AmazonSmile" (under "Your Account"). Set your charity to "Cyclone Gridiron Club" or another charity of your choice. Save this "AmazonSmile" page to somewhere in your favorites.

In the future, shop on Amazon as you usually do. Then when you have filled your "Cart" and are ready to purchase your selected items, you must switch to or pull up your "AmazonSmile" web page (from your Saved favorites). Your Cart should be loaded there as well. Click on "Cart" and finalize your purchase (making sure it is on the AmazonSmile page!). It is about that simple.

I haven't purchased anything yet thru AmazonSmile, but I set mine up on Thursday, and put in "Cyclone Gridiron Club" as my charity. I then made a couple of 'dry runs', and I think it should work fine next time I want to use Amazon.

If I've missed any details, please add them here. CW, you are welcome to use any part of this post, if you want to create a "sticky". @ChrisMWilliams

 

[Cyclonepride]

We've had ours set up for a while with AHeinz57.

 

[cyclonemagic]

I use amazon a lot and will set this up. Thanks for the information.

 

[JP4CY]

We've had ours set up for a while with AHeinz57.

Same as us. We actually get an email once in a while that says how much was donated. Last one said that AHeinz got over a grand.

 

[CtownCyclone]

I've got the same options for my son's school and my daughter's daycare. Choices, choices.

 

[quasistellar]

We've had ours set up for a while with AHeinz57.

Same here and I actually volunteer there as well. I like dogs more than people. . .

 

[AgronAlum]

We've had ours set up for a while with AHeinz57.

I forgot about them when I signed up. We do some stuff through work for them.

Currently with Hope Ministries Des Moines.

 

[BoomerClone]

I don’t think any college athletics program should qualify as a “charity”. Please set up your Amazon smile to go to something other than a college athletics department.

On a side note, I actually didn’t know about this. Went to set mine up. What a pain in the a$$. You have to switch from the normal website (also don’t see the option in the app, the method I used most). Thanks Amazon for making it hard to donate that measly 0.5% of your billions in profit.

 

[AgronAlum]

I don’t think any college athletics program should qualify as a “charity”. Please set up your Amazon smile to go to something other than a college athletics department.

On a side note, I actually didn’t know about this. Went to set mine up. What a pain in the a$$. You have to switch from the normal website (also don’t see the option in the app, the method I used most). Thanks Amazon for making it hard to donate that measly 0.5% of your billions in profit.

I don’t remember how I did it but my app on my phone automatically charges everything through Smile.

 

[hiltonisheaven]

I don’t think any college athletics program should qualify as a “charity”. Please set up your Amazon smile to go to something other than a college athletics department.

On a side note, I actually didn’t know about this. Went to set mine up. What a pain in the a$$. You have to switch from the normal website (also don’t see the option in the app, the method I used most). Thanks Amazon for making it hard to donate that measly 0.5% of your billions in profit.

You only have to do that step one time and then it will apply it going forward. Maybe once a year they will ask if you want to make changes, otherwise it just automatically applies it.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

Great idea, and I just finished up doing the link, and it now lists Cyclone gridiron club on the top bar of our amazon page.

Great way to support ISU.

 

[thisISnextyear]

does your spending on Amazon Smile go towards achieving the next tier of benefits from Gridiron Club?

 

[Jayshellberg]

Done, thanks so much.

 

[t-noah]

I don’t think any college athletics program should qualify as a “charity”. Please set up your Amazon smile to go to something other than a college athletics department.

On a side note, I actually didn’t know about this. Went to set mine up. What a pain in the a$$. You have to switch from the normal website (also don’t see the option in the app, the method I used most). Thanks Amazon for making it hard to donate that measly 0.5% of your billions in profit.

People can and will continue to donate to charities as they wish. Thank goodness. Since Amazon takes Cyclone Gridiron Club as a 'charity' who am I to argue?

As to your second paragraph above, I found it a little tricky to find and begin AmazonSmile myself. That is why I started this thread. To try to make it easier for folks to do it. Did you follow my steps in post #1? It may be different on your computer?

 

[RustShack]

I just went to my Amazon app and searched Amazon smiles, clicked the icon, and set it up pretty easy.

 

[Sigmapolis]

I have mine setup for an animal shelter.

I love Iowa State but I love kittens that need a furever home, too.

 

[JCity]

Done, the WWF will no longer benefit from my wife shopping on Amazon

 

[RustShack]

Done, the WWF will no longer benefit from my wife shopping on Amazon

Vince McMahon will be OK.