AmericanTowns Introduces New Online Fundraising Tool to Benefit Local Non-Profit Organizations.Offers Organizations a Fast and Secure Way To Accept Online Financial Contributions FAIRFIELD Fairfield. 1 City (1990 pop. 12,200), Jefferson co., N central Ala., an industrial suburb of Birmingham; inc. 1919. Founded (1910) by the United States Steel Corp., its steel industry has greatly declined, negatively affecting the city's economy. , Conn. -- Online donations are now just a click away for community groups, local organizations and charities. AmericanTowns, the largest national network of hyper-local community websites, today announced a new online tool that allows organizations to quickly (and securely) accept financial donations from local residents with a computer mouse and a credit card. AmericanTowns' online donation donation n. gift. If made to a qualified non-profit charitable, religious, educational or public service organization, it may be deductible as a contribution in calculating income tax. DONATION, contracts. tool is now available, and free for non-profit organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. to set up at www.AmericanTowns.com. The secure credit card processing is handled by PayPal A Web payment processing service founded in 1998 and acquired by eBay in late 2002. Operating as an independent brand, PayPal, San Jose, CA (www.paypal.com) is used to shop at PayPal-enabled retail sites as well as to send or request money from anyone with an e-mail address. , for 2.5% of on-line donations actually collected, providing the organization and its donors full on-line security. AmericanTowns.com is a "virtual town square" for 6000 communities, currently covering the nation's top 50 DMAs (excepting New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ), and includes the nation's most extensive online database of local events, community organizations and resources. Each community's site at AmericanTowns.com is rich with local content and also allows local residents to post and share additional information that is important to them. AmericanTowns plans to introduce additional features this year to help bloggers achieve wider exposure in their communities. "AmericanTowns is all about communities, and there's no better way to show our commitment than by helping people to support their local non-profits," said Jim Maglione, co-president of AmericanTowns.com LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . "These are the organizations that are essential to connecting people to one another and strengthening the bonds of our communities." This new online donation tool is: * Exceptionally easy to set up; everything you need is at AmericanTowns.com * Free of charge by AmericanTowns (the only cost is PayPal's 2.5% processing fee on donations collected) * Easy to link to from a group's existing site (or to create a free listing for the organization at AmericanTowns.com) * Complete with the option to post information on the fundraiser to the homepage See home page. of the local community website at AmericanTowns.com AmericanTowns.com offers local non-profit groups the ability to quickly and easily expand the reach of their event marketing and fundraising
About AmericanTowns AmericanTowns is the largest national network of hyper-local community websites and includes the nation's most extensive online database of local events, community organizations and resources. Currently serving 6000 US towns (total population: 150 million), AmericanTowns acts as a "virtual town square" that connects citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses to strengthen the bonds of our nation's communities. These sites include more than 3 million community events plus powerful tools to help more than 60,000 listed community organizations interact Interact can refer to:
Fall of Interact While the Game Boy device was first released, Interact acquired the rights to sell Datel's Action Replay more effectively with local citizens. Founded in 2000, AmericanTowns is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut Fairfield is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is situated along the Gold Coast of Connecticut. Fairfield is a town of many neighborhoods, two of which -- Southport and Greenfield Hill -- are notably affluent. . Visit www.AmericanTowns.com. |
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