Calisa Hildebrand

So, it turns out that when you make a donation with your credit card to a charity, credit cards still charge the transaction fee. This results in about $250 million dollars profit a year for them. Even more during a major crisis, such as the one in Haiti.

The only credit card company in the US that doesn’t do this is Capital One. I do not have a Capital One card, but if you do, use it! That way 100% of the profits will go towards the cause.

If you are like me and you don’t have Capital One, well, making a donation is still really important! Google makes it suuuuper easy to donate for relief efforts in Haiti if you go here:

http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-sk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=haiti%20aid

And, if you’d like to donate more, say $50 to the Red Cross, American Airlines will give you 250 miles as a thank you!!

http://www.aa.com/i18n/utility/haiti-earthquake.jsp?anchorLocation=Homepage_Top&reportedTitle=Disaster%20Relief%20-%20Haiti&reportedPosition=0&url=%2Fi18n%2Futility%2Fhaiti-earthquake.jsp&_locale=en_US&repositoryName=MarketingMessageContentRepository&repositoryId=16125142

Could come in handy for flights later on.

Even $10 helps. Let’s do what we can