You may have noticed that your Razoo bookmarks to www.razoo.com no longer take you to our vibrant community for social good, or that alpha.razoo.com now redirects you to www.razoo.com. That’s because we did a little virtual reorganization to go with our “soft launch” of the new Razoo giving platform– which now calls www.razoo.com home. To make things less confusing to new folks, we’ve moved the original site to community.razoo.com and now refer to this site as “Razoo Community”.
Why does this matter to you? It probably doesn’t, actually– other than the fact that you may need to update your links.
What you might care about, however, are the upgrades we’ve made to Razoo.com– like a brand new “Articles” section with advice, inspiration, and interesting stories written specifically for charitable givers (several of which have been featured in major online outlets like the Huffington Post and Divine Caroline). I could tell you what I think is most interesting in there, but it’s probably easier for you to just browse around and see for yourself.
We also released a few tools to help the people doing the work that we support. Non-profits and supporters can create a simple button (”widget”) to add to their website or blog to collect donations online. And, as with our own donation platform, we pass on 100% of the donation to the organization. It’s a really easy way to take advantage of some of the benefits of Razoo wherever it’s best for you. Go here to get one for yourself or here to see how charities can use Razoo to better serve donors.
And last (but not least), we’ve recently added support for International credit cards for those of you who live outside the US but want to call Razoo your charitable home. Even though all of the charities in our catalog are based in the US, many of them work extensively (or exclusively) Internationally– so in many cases you can actually support local charity work even if you live outside the US. It’s an interesting twist on localized philanthropy.
We’ve added a host of other improvements, but those are the big ones we wanted to mention. Let us know what you think, and thanks for your continuing interest in and support of Razoo!