Orel Family - Fundraising from bruce.orel.ws

I established the discography page in 1995, and the charities page in 1996. For a decade, I ran the discography purely as an information page, without regard to commercial entities selling the titles I was listing. Occasionally I would get emails from people looking for discs, or saying they had bought something they'd found on my site. In one instance, someone told me they had bought seventeen items they'd found on the site. Finally, I had an epiphany: By associating with amazon.com, I could accomplish 3 things: 1) create an easy pass-through from the information to a good source for obtaining the disc; 2) generate commissions for the links; and 3) use those commissions to create a linkage from the sale of the discs to the charities favored by Bruce Springsteen.

In mid-November, 2005, I established the association with amazon.com. On a quarterly basis, I will be selecting a charity listed on the charities page. That charity will receive all commissions generated from the discography page, as well as a personal match up to the amount of the commissions. In April, 2006, I added a new section to the site, The Songs of the Seeger Sessions. Any sales generated from that page will also be included in the totals, starting with Q2 2006. The following table shows the charities and the generated/donated amounts, to date.

If you wish to participate, all you need to do is go the discography page on your way to amazon, click any of the amazon.com icon links on that page, and do your shopping as you normally would. You'll get the same great prices as ever, and a percentage will end up with one of the charities. If you have any recommendation, please contact me at matt@orel.ws

Quarter
Items Sold
Commission Amount
Charity Selected
Personal Match
Corporate Match
Total Donation
Q3-Q4 2012
260
$313.44
Gleaners Community Food Bank
The One Fund - Boston
$191.04
$95.52
PNC Foundation: $400.00
$800.00
$200.00
Q1-Q2 2012
157
$179.12
American Red Cross
$170.88
$350.00
Q3-Q4 2011
211
$301.83
Capuchin Soup Kitchen
$298.17
$600.00
Q1-Q2 2011
175
$183.98
Gleaners Community Food Bank
$166.02
PNC Foundation: $350.00
$700.00
Q3-Q4 2010
192
$264.46
Kristen Ann Carr Fund
$235.54
$500.00
Q1-Q2 2010
197
$238.31
Gleaners Community Food Bank
$261.69
PNC Foundation: $500.00
$1000.00
Q3-Q4 2009
187
$239.11
Hope for Haiti Now
$260.89
$500.00
Q1-Q2 2009
156
$115.56
Gleaners Community Food Bank
$84.44
PNC Foundation: $200.00
$400.00
Q3-Q4 2008
85
$85.33
Community FoodBank of New Jersey
$64.67
 
$150.00
Q1-Q2 2008
90
$71.71
Gleaners Community Food Bank
$78.29
 
$150.00
Q4 2007
55
$67.60
The Danny Federici Melanoma Fund
$83.40
 
$150.00
Q3 2007
54
$50.35
Melanoma Research Foundation
$49.65
 
$100.00
Q2 2007
43
$32.19
Bob Woodruff Family Fund
$32.81
 
$65.00
Q1 2007
58
$49.01
Joan Dancy and PALS Support Group
$50.99
 
$100.00
Q4 2006
105
$153.16
Hungry For Music
The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic
Special Olympics
$48.95
$48.95
$48.94
 
$100.00
$100.00
$100.00
Q3 2006
68
$52.29
Musicians On Call
$47.71
 
$100.00
Q2 2006
157
$144.28
World Hunger Year
Community FoodBank of New Jersey
Gleaners Community Food Bank
$51.91
$51.91
$51.90
 
$100.00
$100.00
$100.00
Q1 2006
38
$39.62
Parkinson's Disease Foundation
$45.38
 
$85.00
Q4 2005
33
$27.12
Kristen Ann Carr Fund
$22.68
 
$50.00

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The Orel Family
Email: matt@orel.ws
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