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One Today

by @heymistermix.com|  December 26, 201310:44 am| 30 Comments

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If you’re looking for a simple, interesting way to increase the amount you’re giving to charity, take a look at One Today. It’s a smartphone app that reminds you with a message about a single charity every day. When you get the message, at a time you pick, you can choose whether to give a buck to that charity. If the charity inspires you, you can add to your donation to match the donations of others. If others have been inspired, your donation will be matched. Google curates the charities that are presented, and from what I’ve seen they do a pretty good job.

You need a Google Wallet account to use it, which basically means you need to link a credit card to your Google account. This may seem like an inconvenience (it is), but the use of Google Wallet allows Google to charge you every couple of weeks when your giving total approaches $20, instead of every day for your $1 donation, keeping the transaction costs down.

I like the “just a buck a day” concept, and I’ve been giving more fairly painlessly using this app. Maybe a few of you will like it, too.

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  1. 1.

    ranchandsyrup

    December 26, 2013 at 11:02 am

    It tells me every day to give $$ to snowden. Is it broken?

  2. 2.

    srv

    December 26, 2013 at 11:10 am

    Shameless plug (cousin works there):

    http://www.kiva.org/

  3. 3.

    replicnt6

    December 26, 2013 at 11:14 am

    Hmmm… I find that my telephone serves as a daily reminder of every charity I’ve ever given money to.

  4. 4.

    Chyron HR

    December 26, 2013 at 11:16 am

    But can even atheists do it?

  5. 5.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 26, 2013 at 11:23 am

    @Chyron HR: Only if they promise to be offended while doing so.

  6. 6.

    muricafukyea

    December 26, 2013 at 11:30 am

    Wow, what a great idea. Thanks for pointing out this wonderful idea to us all glorified reddit poster muckymux.

    What would be even better would be some app that maybe could be called virtual street beggar. Every 5 minutes it interrupts whatever you are doing asking for money. Wouldn’t that be grand.

    Ball Juice is constantly surprising me with all these wonderful things they manage to find.

  7. 7.

    Cassidy

    December 26, 2013 at 11:32 am

    You need a Google Wallet account to use it, which basically means you need to link a credit card to your Google account.

    All information willingly given to a corporation, but the NSA was a bridge too far?

    @Chyron HR: I’m offended you used “can” instead of “may”. Are you insinuating that atheists don’t have opposable thumbs or can’t work electronics? That’s the most offensive thing said about atheists since last night!

  8. 8.

    gbear

    December 26, 2013 at 11:34 am

    you need to link a credit card to your Google account

    Like hell I will.

  9. 9.

    The Red Pen

    December 26, 2013 at 11:37 am

    @Cassidy:

    Are you insinuating that atheists don’t have opposable thumbs or can’t work electronics?

    Of course they do. That and bananas are proof of god. There. I said it.

    Now, does this charity take BitCoin? If not, then I’m out.

  10. 10.

    Botsplainer

    December 26, 2013 at 11:41 am

    Lovell apparently did a repeat of that put on Genesis bullshit from 1968 on Apollo 8.

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/26/astronaut-jim-lovell-recreates-christmas-broadcast-on-45th-anniversary-of-lunar-orbit/

    They were playing the original on my local RWNJ station on Christmas Eve in the run up to doing the 1939 radio theater production of the Christmas Carol. The thing that struck me about the lunar orbit broadcast was that it was completely contrived pro Evangelical bullshit.

    They’ve needed relentless cultural reinforcement the last 60 years to maintain position, across society, entertainment and government.

    Want to know why Christmas music is tired? The neverending need to reinforce the propaganda delivered to Boomers.

  11. 11.

    Chyron HR

    December 26, 2013 at 11:47 am

    @Cassidy:

    Are you insinuating that atheists don’t have opposable thumbs or can’t work electronics?

    Of course not, they just have something wrong in their brains that prevents them from demonstrating basic human decency. That’s why you never see them volunteering when there’s a disaster (Klein, 2013).

  12. 12.

    FlipYrWhig

    December 26, 2013 at 11:54 am

    @Cassidy: that little episode was approaching Pajama Boy levels of incomprehensible, unjustified butthurt.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    December 26, 2013 at 11:54 am

    Bill would give Port Authority inspector general subpoena power outside the agency

    By Steve Strunsky/The Star-Ledger
    December 24, 2013 at 10:20 AM

    In the wake of the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal, a Democratic lawmaker said he will introduce a bill to give the Port Authority Inspector General’s office subpoena power over documents or witnesses from outside the agency.

    The Inspector General’s office of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is conducting one of several investigations into the unannounced closing of two out of three local access lanes to the bridge from Fort Lee. The closings clogged borough streets and prompted the start of legislative hearings followed by the resignation of two top officials named to the agency by Gov. Chris Christie.

    http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/bill_subpoena_gwb_inspector_general.html

  14. 14.

    dpm (dread pirate mistermix)

    December 26, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    Everyone who buys an app from an app store (Google, Apple, etc) either gives the company a credit card number, or uses a prepaid card.

  15. 15.

    Fred Fnord

    December 26, 2013 at 12:12 pm

    @muricafukyea: Aww… did the bad poor people ask Mr Galt for some money again? Show us on your wallet where it hurts.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    December 26, 2013 at 12:24 pm

    @Chyron HR:

    Of course not,

    Why are you giving up on the opposable thumbs argument so easily?

  17. 17.

    LAC

    December 26, 2013 at 12:29 pm

    @Cassidy: Yeah, I was a little confused by that since “HOW DARE YOU BE ABLE TO TRACK ME AND NSA IS EVIL AND WHERE ARE MY PRIVACY RIGHTS AND BLURGGGGH!!” is the usual thang here. I mean, it is for a good cause, but….

  18. 18.

    Aji

    December 26, 2013 at 12:47 pm

    I have a piece up at the GOS where you can give to a VERY good cause without Google Wallet: feeding the hungry, heat for elders, saving the lives of NDN children and youth. Lots of links and info in there, including a similar “consistent donation” feature.

  19. 19.

    Cassidy

    December 26, 2013 at 12:48 pm

    @LAC: It’s mix. I don’t expect intellectual consistency.

  20. 20.

    kc

    December 26, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    @Cassidy:

    Does your douchebaggery know no bounds?

  21. 21.

    Cassidy

    December 26, 2013 at 1:46 pm

    @kc: So in your world facts= douchebaggery?

  22. 22.

    dpm (dread pirate mistermix)

    December 26, 2013 at 1:48 pm

    @kc: No. SATSQ.

    We’ve been over the question of why corporate data collection is different from NSA data collection a hundred times in the comments, yet Cassidy continues with the same lame bullshit in every thread, along with his usual name calling.

  23. 23.

    Cassidy

    December 26, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    @dpm (dread pirate mistermix): “Because shut up, that’s why” is not an argument. It’s okay mix. Your a dipshit but Snowden still loves you and your failures at punditin’.

  24. 24.

    WereBear

    December 26, 2013 at 3:31 pm

    We sponsor a child with Children Incorporated: it works out about a dollar a day. Every quarter we send extra for school supplies, holiday gifts, etc.

    We were stunned at the difficulty we had finding a charity we felt confident about. So many of the “usual players” are all about getting religion into their heads, instead of food onto their plates.

  25. 25.

    dpm (dread pirate mistermix)

    December 26, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    @Cassidy: “Your a dipshit” – typical.

  26. 26.

    rikyrah

    December 26, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    Talking Points Memo ✔ @TPM
    Follow

    White House to fete Michelle Obama’s 50th with dance party: http://bit.ly/K6Vr2Y
    1:46 PM – 26 Dec 2013

  27. 27.

    Cassidy

    December 26, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    @dpm (dread pirate mistermix): You are a pretty typical dipshit. If there is anything special or unique about you, only your mother could claim to know.

  28. 28.

    Singular

    December 26, 2013 at 7:16 pm

    Cassidy, you are like a fucking broken record. Seriously… grow up.

  29. 29.

    Cassidy

    December 26, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    @Singular: yawn

  30. 30.

    kc

    December 26, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    @Cassidy:

    No. You = Douchebag.

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