Support the Museum While Shopping Online
Now you can support the High Desert Museum every time you shop
online. Go to www.HDMeMall.com and click
from there to your online store. When you make your purchase, a
contribution goes to the Museum at no cost to you. Every time
you make a purchase from a store through the eMall, the Museum
gets a contribution from the retailer. You get the same
products for the same price through the eMall, but eMall allows
you to support the Museum, a local, nonprofit treasure, without
ever writing a check.
The Museum, a nationally acclaimed experience dedicated to
inspiring and fostering stewardship of High Desert natural and
cultural resources, relies on support such as this in caring
for its rescued wildlife and art and cultural artifacts, and in
creating fun and engaging family and community programs. The
nonprofit receives no regular tax-based funding.
Supporting the Museum through eMall is easy. For example,
instead of going directly to amazon.com, go to the www.HDMeMall.com first and
click the Amazon link. You can go to www.HDMeMall.com through
your web browser or through the link from www.highdesertmuseum.org.
You can also bookmark the eMall in your browser "favorites" and
right-click to the Museum eMall. To generate the most support
for the Museum, click through the eMall every time you shop -
whether it's for the holidays, weddings, birthday, showers,
sending flowers, credit card applications, magazine
subscriptions, cell phone services, satellite television,
books, CDs, electronics or clothes. The contributions come from
hundreds of eRetailers that have partnered with eFundraising
entity The Sparhawk Corporation, which helps important
institutions like the Museum. The average retailer contribution
is 3 percent. In 2005, consumers spent $149 billion online.
That amount is expected to reach $349 billion by 2010.
