August 26, 2003
Yet Another Open-Source Project Funding Idea: Affinity Cards

I appear to be on a roll on this subject this week…

As long as we’re thinking about ways to generate money for OSS projects, here’s one I’ve never heard floated before:

Affinity cards.

Affinity cards are credit cards that donate a small percentage of each transaction to a charitable cause. Though the amounts in question are usually small, affinity cards are popular with consumers because they allow them to publicly display their support for a cause or organization each time they go shopping.

If the interest rate was decent, I could be talked into carrying a Mozilla Foundation credit card, and I bet a lot of other folks could too…

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz at August 26, 2003
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Is this hard to do? Are there banks that let you offer "design your own" affinity cards? (feel free to email me)

Posted by: Robert Douglass on June 29, 2004 8:35 AM
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