Methods for soliciting donations

A method for managing solicitation of donations includes receiving, over a communications network, data regarding a plurality of amounts for donation and a plurality of selected organizations made during checkout of a plurality of online purchases at a plurality of online retailers by a plurality of online shoppers, collecting a plurality of payments for the amounts of the donations, and distributing the plurality of payments among the plurality of organizations based on the data. For example, the method may include the online shoppers being asked at the time of checkout if they would like to round-up their total purchase price to the nearest dollar and select a charity/nonprofit organization to donate the spare change.