After checking out just about every conceivable kind of fundraiser possible, the Foundation board is pleased to announce an innovative way to support your library. The good news is that it will not cost patrons and library supporters a single cent.
There are two integrated aspects to the program. The first takes advantage of the concept of online shopping, which has exploded to a 30 billion dollar industry practically overnight. Almost everyone shops online now. This trend will undoubtedly increase in light of our sagging economy and high gas prices. Shopping online makes sense because it saves time and money.
Online shopping is something that people are doing already anyway, so why not direct some of that 30 billion dollars into worthwhile non-profit organizations such as the Latah County Library Association?
How is this possible? It all starts with the concept of an online shopping mall, the biggest mall ever constructed, for it contains over 1400 stores. All the stores you would expect to find in a typical brick and mortar mall are all there such as Macy's, Target, WallMart, Sam's Club, Radio Shack, and many, many more.
The process is simple, once you enter the Library Foundation Mall online, you are redirected to the Website of the actual store where you will do your shopping. The sales are tracked and the stores pay a rebate to the Library Foundation for items purchased. You pay the same price you would normally pay, but the Foundation gets a donation from the company in return for referring you to its site.
Accordingly, you can help you library by doing something that you are already doing, and your online shopping will help us to expand our services to the entire community.
How do you access the Foundation Shopping Mall? Here comes the exciting second part of the program. It involves a free, downloadable search bar powered by Yahoo. TGhere are four buttons on the searchbar. The first button takes you to the Library's Website. The second button takes you directly into the shopping mall. The third button takes you to the Foundation Website and the last button to the Foundation blog.
This bar is a great way for the library and foundation to keep in touch with patrons and to remind visitors to go shopping in the mall with an easy and convenient access point. But it gets even better.
Yahoo will pay the Foundation ten cents for every click on a sponsored link. So, ten clicks is a buck. We would like to ask all of our patrons and supporters to make it a habit to click on ten links a day. Just imagine. We have 16,000 library card holders. What if they all did ten clicks a day? That would yield us $16,000 a day! Of course that's not going to happen, but every little bit helps and the potential is staggering.
So, with these two exciting technologies now in place, we ask you to do your part to support your library. Please shop online and click away to your heart's content if you love your library.
To get your free toolbar, click on the link in the right sidebar. Don't worry. The toolbar is guaranteed by Yahoo not to have any spyware, malware or any kind of tracking whatsoever.
Click if you love your library!
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