Donation Interface Matching Donor Affinities to Organizational Needs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively engage donors with non-profit organizations, as donors have limited connection to how their donations fulfill organizational needs, leading to low enthusiasm and limited resource allocation for donor engagement.
Innovation Solution
A networked system and data structures that allow donors to match item donations with organizational needs, providing a user interface to facilitate transactions and active engagement by correlating donor affinities with organizational and item affinities, enabling donors to directly contribute to specific needs through online purchases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional monetary donation systems are used, then organizations can receive funds, but donors have little connection to how donations fulfill organizational needs resulting in low engagement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the donation process into specific needs or projects, allowing donors to choose exactly where their money goes. Instead of general donations, the system divides organizational requirements into discrete, selectable options that donors can directly support, creating a clear connection between their contribution and its impact.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that show donors the direct impact of their contributions. Donors receive information about how their donations are being used to fulfill specific needs, creating a closed-loop system where the donor can see the results of their action, thereby maintaining engagement and connection.
2Ease of operation
If websites provide explicit identification of needs, then donor engagement increases modestly, but the system lacks active engagement mechanisms for multiple donors
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a universal platform that serves multiple functions: identifying needs, matching donors with causes, facilitating transactions, and enabling ongoing engagement. This multi-functional system accommodates various types of donors and organizations within a single adaptable framework.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a social dimension to donation by enabling donors to follow, share, and interact with each other's charitable activities. This transforms a traditionally individual act into a potentially social and communal experience, creating new dimensions of engagement beyond simple monetary transfer.
Data Source
AI summary
A method provides information regarding donations to organizations. The method includes obtaining in at least one server computer first affinity information selected by a first donor user, and obtaining in the at least one server computer second affinity information relating to each of a plurality of organizations. The method also includes determining in a computer processor of the at least one server computer a subset of the plurality of organizations based on a correlation of the first affinity information and the second affinity information. Graphic card information relating to the subset of organizations is provided to a first client computing device. The graphic card information is configured to be displayed on a user interface of the first client computing device such that a graphic card is displayed on the first client computing device identifying each of the subset of the plurality of organizations.