BetterFi is on Amazon Smile

This is just a quick note to end the week: BetterFi is now on Amazon Smile!

If you use Amazon frequently, you may or may not be aware that you can shop through smile.amazon.com in order to have 0.5% of each purchase donated to a charity of your choice.

That may not sound like a lot, but with the average Amazon Prime customer spending approximately $1,300 per year on Amazon, 100 average Amazon Prime shoppers purchasing via smile.amazon.com with BetterFi listed as their charity could generate $650 per year toward ending predatory lending.

Here are some things that $650 could cover for BetterFi or our partners:

  • Our website costs for nearly 2 years

  • More than half a year of internet service at BetterFi’s office

  • More than a quarter of a year’s loan system service fees

  • More than a fifth of BetterFi’s share of the stipend for an AmeriCorps VISTA

  • Checking account fees for 10 of our clients for a year

  • Our loan loss provisions for $1,652 in loans

If you frequently use Amazon, consider using Smile and setting BetterFi as your charity.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

Spike Hosch