Enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther

• US 20110264521A1
• Filed: 04/22/2011
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John Wayne Straka
• Original Assignee: John Wayne Straka
• Inventors: STRAKA, John Wayne
• Application Number:
  US13/092,879
• Publication Number:
  US 20110264521A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.49
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A non-profit method and system for an enhanced charity portal website. The present invention is able to provide a plurality of charities that donors can contribute to. The present invention allows users to create activity or cause profiles in which donors can support the cause. Each activity profile is associated with a charity of choice by the user. The website of the present invention is maintained using the revenues earned through its advertisements and shopping services. All of the revenue earned minus the cost for the website maintenance is donated to the charity in addition to outside donor donations.

Claims

1. A system for enhancing charity portal websites comprises,

providing a home interface having a plurality of activity pages;

providing a plurality of advertisements;

providing a advertisement statistics database;

categorizing of the plurality of activity pages in activity categories including a charity page, a shopping page, a sports page, a events page, a schools page, a business page, a music arts page, a performance page, a competition page, a personal goals page, a milestones page, a personal finance page;

positioning of the plurality of advertisements on the plurality of activity pages;

providing a plurality of charity website links on the charity page and the donate now page;

providing a plurality of third party products and a plurality of third party services on the shopping page;

providing a comparison chart on the shopping page; and

providing a plurality of social networking share links on the plurality of activity pages.

2. A method for enhancing charity portal websites comprises,

providing a plurality of activity pages including a charity page, a shopping page, a sports page, an events page, a schools page, a business page, a music arts page, a performance page, a competition page, a personal goals page, a milestones page, and a personal finance page;

providing a plurality of advertisements;

providing an advertisement statistics database;

providing an activities database;

placements of the plurality of advertisements on the plurality of activity pages based on categories;

tracking of clicks on the plurality of advertisements by a statistical analysis;

calculating of response rates and click-through rates by the statistical analysis;

earning a revenue by means of the plurality of advertisements and the shopping page;

maintaining the plurality of activity pages by means of using the revenue to cover any maintenance costs; and

distributing and donating the revenue minus the maintenance cost to a plurality of charities.

3. The method for enhancing charity portal website as claimed in claim 2 comprises,

providing a plurality of activity profiles by the plurality of activities pages;

providing the a plurality of social networking share links on the plurality of activity profiles; and

providing means to share the activity profile by means of the plurality of social networking share links.

4. the method for enhancing charity portal website as claimed in claim 3 comprises,

providing a registration form for each of the plurality of activity pages;

providing means to create additional activity profiles by the registration forms;

providing the registration form on each activity profile for both pledges and donations; and

providing means to associate donations and pledges to the activity profiles by means of the registration form.

5. the method for enhancing charity portal website as claimed in claim 2 comprises,

storing of a plurality of charity pledges and a plurality of donations in the activities database, wherein the amount of each charity pledge and donation is stored and directly transferred to the plurality of charities;

associating of each of activity profile to a predetermined charity selected form the plurality of charities; and

tracking of amount of pledges and donations collected for each of the charities in the activity database.

6. the method for enhancing charity portal website as claimed in claim 2 comprises,

providing a comparison chart on the shopping page;

providing means to purchase sponsoring third party products or services; and

providing means to select and compare products or services on the shopping page by means of the comparison chart.

7. the method for enhancing charity portal website as claimed in claim 2 comprises,

providing an activity calendar by the schools page;

and

providing means to automatically populate the activity calendar by the schools pages.

8. the method for enhancing charity portal website as claimed in claim 2 comprises,

providing means to send invitations for additional pledge or donation registrations, wherein the invitations are prewritten messages of invitations or customized messages;

and

providing means to collect suggestions, wherein the suggestions are new applications and programs for collecting charity pledges and donations.

9. the method for enhancing charity portal website as claimed in claim 2 comprises,

providing means to make conventional donations through the charity page or donate now page;

displaying a advertisement before conventional donation is made; and

providing means to access original website of the plurality of charities by means of a plurality of charity links located on the charity page and donate now page to make direct donations.

10. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther comprises,

providing a plurality of activity pages including a charity page, a shopping page, a sports page, an events page, a schools page, a business page, a music arts page, a performance page, a competition page, a personal goals page, a milestones page, and a personal finance page;

providing a plurality of activity profiles linked to the plurality of activity profiles;

associating of the plurality of activity profiles to an organization, wherein the organizations can be individuals, sports teams, business entities, or financial institutes;

providing a plurality of advertisement; and

providing an activities database.

11. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 10 comprises,

accessing the charity page or donate now page to make conventional donations, wherein the conventional donations are indirect donations;

and

accessing the websites of a plurality of charity organizations by means of a plurality of charity links on the charity page and donate now page to make direct donations.

12. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 10 comprises,

accessing the plurality of activity pages to search for the activity profile associated with the organization of interest

accessing the plurality of activity profiles to obtain a contribution form;

registering a charity pledge or a charity donation to a charity linked to the activity profile on the contribution form; and

associating the charity pledge or the charity donation to the activity profile by means of the contribution form.

13. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 11 comprises,

accessing the sports page to search for the organization of interest;

pledging a predetermined amount of donation for a set condition, wherein the set condition includes points scored in a given game by the organization of interest;

contributing a predetermined amount of donation for the charity; and

providing a predetermined goal by the organization of interest, wherein the predetermined goal includes raising a predetermined amount of money to be donated to the associated charity.

14. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 12 comprises,

accessing the business page to search for the organization of interest, wherein the organization of interest is a financial institution;

providing goals to meet, wherein goals include maintaining good credit behavior; and

reaching of goals initiating organization of interest to donating predetermined amount of money to the plurality of charities.

15. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 12 comprises,

accessing an activity calendar on the schools page;

association of the activity calendar with one of the plurality of charities;

tracking of a plurality of student activities on the activity calendar;

pledging a predetermined amount of donation to support and maintain the activity calendar;

contributing a predetermined amount of donation for the charity; and

donating of collected donations to a charity associated with the activity calendar.

16. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 10 comprises,

accessing the shopping page to purchase third party sponsored products, wherein a percentage of sale price is donated to a plurality of charity.

17. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 10 comprises,

registering an additional activity profile on the plurality of activity pages;

associating the activity profile with one of the plurality of charities;

associating the activity profile to the organization; and

providing the activity profile with a cause.

18. A method for using the enhancing charity portal website and methods to help people support charity by making their life activities and every charity donation go farther as claimed in claim 17 comprises,

providing the activity profile with a plurality of social networking options;

sharing of the activity profile through the plurality of social networking options; and

limiting information shared by the activity profile through the plurality of social networking options.