PHILANTHROPY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHODS OF USE AND DOING BUSINESS

• US 20070198372A1
• Filed: 01/17/2007
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Newdea, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Newdea, Inc.
• Inventors: Clark, Stephen, Stremler, Troy, Emrich, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US11/624,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20070198372A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0279 Fundraising management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/10 Tax strategies
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitable projects and provides remote users and others with management tools for inputting information about charitable projects, pre-approving or otherwise assessing them, and accessing and managing charitable project information, portfolios, user team member information and access. The system can provide a business based on, for example, providing system, access, charitable fund management, and charitable donation transaction fees.

Claims

1. A method of providing charitable project management service for a fee, the charitable project management method including the steps of:

A. maintaining information about a plurality of charitable projects on a computing server system in communication with a communications network;

B. charging remote users a fee in connection with accessing said charitable project information on said computing server system through said communications network.

2. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the communications network comprises the Internet.

3. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the information includes financial information about said plurality of charitable projects.

4. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the information includes project goal information about said plurality of charitable projects.

5. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the information includes project assessment information about said plurality of charitable projects.

6. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the information includes project goal information about said plurality of charitable projects.

7. The chartable project management service of claim 6 wherein the information includes financial information about said plurality of charitable projects.

8. The charitable project management service of claim 7 wherein the computing server system comprises the Internet.

9. The charitable project management service of claim 3 wherein the method also includes providing each among the remote users with a management tool for managing at least one portfolio of one or more charitable projects.

10. The charitable project management service of claim 7 wherein the method also includes providing each among the remote users with a management tool for managing at least one portfolio of one or more charitable projects.

11. The charitable project management service of claim 8 wherein the method also includes providing each among the remote users with a management tool for managing at least one portfolio of one or more charitable projects.

12. The charitable project management service of claim 11 wherein the method also includes providing each among the remote users with an project information upload facility, whereby a user may transfer to the computing server system information about a charitable project for subsequent access by other remote users.

13. The charitable project management service of claim 11 wherein the method also includes after the one or more projects has received approval allowing a user to transfer to the computing server system information about the charitable project for subsequent access by other remote users.

14. The charitable project management service of claim 10 wherein the method also includes providing at least one remote user the ability to donate to at least one of the one or more charitable projects.

15. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the method also includes predetermining criteria for providing approval of a charitable project and wherein maintaining information about a plurality of charitable projects includes maintaining project approval data according to said predetermined criteria.

16. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the method also includes charging remote users a fee comprises at least one of:

charging a periodic fee for access to the charitable project information, charging a transactional fee for donations made through the charitable project management service, charging a fee for the amount of time spent using the charitable project management service, or charging a fee for conducting a charitable project assessment;

charging a fee for conducting a charitable organization assessment.

17. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the method recited in claim 1.

18. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the information about the plurality of charitable projects also includes information about at least one philanthropist associated with at least on charitable project.

19. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein maintaining information about a plurality of charitable projects also includes at least one of:

maintaining information about the philanthropist'"'"'s goal for giving to charitable projects, maintaining information about the philanthropist'"'"'s acceptable level of risk for a project, maintaining information about the philanthropist'"'"'s acceptable level of risk for a project, maintaining information about the philanthropist'"'"'s geographical preferences for giving.

20. The charitable project management service of claim 1 wherein the information about the plurality of charitable projects also includes at least one transactional detail about at least one financial transaction and wherein maintaining information about a plurality of charitable projects further comprises maintaining information about the at least one transactional detail of the at least one financial transaction.