Shop for Charity: how to earn proven charities 5% of your Amazon spending in commission

UPDATE: This link is no longer functional. We’re leaving up this post as a record of the project, and so people can still view the comments.

If you shop on Amazon in the countries listed below, you can earn a substantial commission for charity by doing so via the links below. This is a cost-free way to do a lot of good, so I’d encourage you to do so! You can bookmark one of the direct links to Amazon below and then use that bookmark every time you shop.

The commission will be around 5%, though it varies by product category. This is substantially better than the AmazonSmile scheme available in the US, which only gives 0.5% of the money you spend to charity. Amazon’s ‘Associates Program’ pays this commission for referring purchasers to them, from the unaltered purchase price (details here). The money goes to Amazon accounts that I’ve set up for this project, and from there I’ll always direct it only to GiveWell-recommended charities. For ease of administration and to get tax-deductibility, I’ll send it to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative until further notice, though if you make a large purchase which yields over £50 of commission you can ask me to donate it to another charity.

If you’d like to shop for charity, bookmark the appropriate link below now:

I’ll add other links here and on the main ‘Shop for Charity’ page later, including for France. I’d love to hear suggestions for good commission schemes in other countries. If you’d like to share these links with friends and family, please point them to this page or even better this project’s main page, as this is the safest way to ensure that the commission gets earned.

Happy shopping!

‘Shop for Charity’ is a Charity Science project