Amazon Smile
Amazon has created a program where if you go in through Amazon smile instead of straight a small percentage of every purchase (taken off Amazon’s share – the price you pay won’t increase) and donate it to your chosen destination. Learn more about it on their FAQs. I’ve thought this was a great idea. I’ve been supporting the USS Constitution aka Old Iron Sides, but have been encouraging the Laura Ingalls Wilder homesites to adopt the program. I hadn’t heard of any of them doing so and they hadn’t last time I checked, but it looks like several have come on board since then.
I checked again because the Franklin Historical Society publicized that they’ve joined the program and it led me to search for other Laura organizations and quite a few have joined. If you shop on Amazon, please consider going in through Amazon Smiles. Find it online at: http://smile.amazon.com To support Franklin County, search for FCHMS by searching for EIN: 14-1499839 or by keyword.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Amazon Smile Organizations
If you search the Amazon Smiles site under the exact names listed before the dashes, you can now give a percentage to:
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association – Mansfield MO
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society Incorporated – De Smet SD
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum & Tourist Center – Walnut Grove MN
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant Society – De Smet SD
- Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder Association – Malone NY
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Park & Museum Inc – Burr Oak IA
You can also switch your organization as often as you want so join up with Amazon Smile today.
Sarah S. Uthoff is the main force behind Trundlebed Tales fighting to bring the History, Mystery, Magic and Imagination of Laura Ingalls Wilder and other greats of children’s literature and history to life for a new generation.Attend one of her programs, schedule one yourself, watch her videos, listen to her podcast, and find her on Facebook, Twitter, Google+,LinkedIn, and Academia.edu. She is currently President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association. Professionally she is a reference librarian at Kirkwood Community College and director of the Oxford (Iowa) Public Library.