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DollarDays, HomeAid America Announce National Partnership

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DollarDays and HomeAid America today announced a national partnership that will help grow HomeAid’s community outreach program to serve more people facing homelessness. As part of the partnership, DollarDays will develop a dedicated online wholesale marketplace where HomeAid chapters across the country can purchase a variety of high-value products to support their outreach campaigns.

HomeAid America is the leading national nonprofit provider of housing for today’s homeless. The organization builds and renovates multiunit homes for America’s temporarily homeless while they rebuild their lives. In addition, HomeAid identifies charities working to end homelessness and collaborates with the building industry to provide extra or upgraded facilities in which to house people.

“HomeAid’s community outreach helps to offset everyday living expenses by providing basic necessities such as clothing and hygiene items to those in need,” said Peter Simons, CEO of HomeAid America. “Since 2014, HomeAid has distributed nearly 10 million essential items to families in need, including diapers and wipes, backpacks, clothing, housewares, and school supplies. DollarDays’ partnership will allow us to better support individuals and families who need help to regain self-sufficiency and get back on their feet.”

“Much of the homeless population HomeAid is working with are families and children,” said Shelly Chaney, Vice President and General Manager for DollarDays. “At DollarDays, our products and services tightly align with organizations that service youth. We welcome the opportunity to partner with HomeAid and extend the good that its chapters do every day.”

About DollarDays
Founded in 2001, DollarDays is the leading supplier of wholesale goods for nonprofits, businesses and betterment organizations. By sourcing affordable products, backed by exceptional service and meaningful community engagement, we strive to inspire and empower our customers to accomplish their missions to improve the lives of people around the world. Recognized as the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office “2018 Product Exporter of the Year” and Internet Retailer Magazine’s “B2B E-commerce Marketer of the Year” for 2016 and 2017, DollarDays is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.dollardays.com.

About HomeAid
HomeAid, founded in Southern California in 1989, is a nonprofit provider of housing and resources for the homeless that operates through a network of 18 chapters nationwide. HomeAid has completed over 550 housing projects with a value of more than $230 million, of which nearly 50 percent was donated by the building industry. HomeAid has added over 10,000 beds that have housed over 325,000 previously homeless individuals. For more information visit www.homeaid.org.

Marine Toys for Tots Welcomes DollarDays as National Partner

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DollarDays and the Marine Toys for Tots Program today announced a national partnership that will help more than 800 Toys for Tots Coordinators across the United States stretch their donation dollars and meet their goal of giving toys and bringing joy this Christmas to children of all ages.

Toys for Tots runs its national toy collection campaign from October until mid-December. Local businesses and organizations serve as drop-off and collection points for the donations. Funds raised from individual and national corporate donations are also used to purchase toys and other products to supplement the local toy collections. As a result of the DollarDays partnership, Toys for Tots Coordinators can purchase books, toys and games, backpacks, learning tools, electronics and other products based on the needs of their local communities. The partnership will also help fill the gap in toy donations following the closure of Toys “R” Us stores across the country.

“DollarDays provides high-value products for kids of all ages, which really helps our nonprofit partners,” said Shelly Chaney, Vice President and General Manager of DollarDays. “We have some incredible selections for newborns and baby items, and can also cater to the needs of teenagers, two age groups that have traditionally received fewer product donations from the general public. Toys for Tots Coordinators can shop with us to fill in all the gaps on their wish lists so that every child experiences the joy of Christmas.”

New this year, DollarDays will spotlight Toys for Tots on the DollarDays.com checkout page from now through December 31, 2018. Shoppers can choose to donate five percent of their purchases back to the national Toys for Tots Foundation. This is in addition to five percent of all orders placed by the Toys for Tots Coordinators.

“We are excited that DollarDays is featuring the Toys for Tots Foundation as a beneficiary of its 5% Give-Back Program,” said Ted Silvester, Toys for Tots Vice President. “The more people who use DollarDays’ site and select the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation at checkout, the more wish lists we can fulfill. The benefit is also that much greater, given all the toys and other products we will get from working with DollarDays.”

DollarDays offers Toys for Tots Coordinators personalized service that will help them to hone in on what they need, maximize their spend to help as many kids as possible, and coordinate storage and shipping, including holding orders in company warehouses until they are needed. There are no minimums to buy and all orders include free shipping.

Silvester added, “DollarDays has been extremely proactive with our Coordinators, providing them access to a diverse catalog of products and the assistance and resources they need to simplify the purchasing decisions they will make with their donation dollars.”

About DollarDays
Founded in 2001, DollarDays is the leading supplier of wholesale goods for nonprofits, businesses and betterment organizations. By sourcing affordable products, backed by exceptional service and meaningful community engagement, we strive to inspire and empower our customers to accomplish their missions to improve the lives of people around the world. Recognized as the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office “2018 Product Exporter of the Year” and Internet Retailer Magazine’s “B2B E-commerce Marketer of the Year” for 2016 and 2017, DollarDays is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.dollardays.com.

About the Marine Toys for Tots Program
Marine Toys for Tots Program, a 71-year national charitable program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, provides happiness and hope to disadvantaged children during each Christmas holiday season. The toys, books and other gifts collected and distributed by the Marines offer these children recognition, confidence and a positive memory for a lifetime. It is such experiences that help children become responsible citizens and caring members of their community. Last year the Marine Toys for Tots Program fulfilled the holiday hopes and dreams of 7 million less fortunate children in over 800 communities nationwide. Since 1947, over 251 million children have been assisted. The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation is a not for profit organization authorized by the U.S. Marine Corps and the Department of Defense to provide fundraising and other necessary support for the annual Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program. For more information, visit www.toysfortots.org.

DollarDays Awarded SAGE 2019 “A” Supplier Rating

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Customer service, quality and delivering a great value are critical to DollarDays’ success, and we focus on them every day, so whenever we are recognized for our efforts, we celebrate.

SAGE promotional products distributors recently recognized DollarDays as among the best suppliers in the industry. DollarDays received an “A” from distributors based on ratings collected through the PPAI network for SAGE Online, SAGE Web and SAGE Mobile. The award recognizes companies for quality, customer service and product safety.

How important is this award?

“Distributors in the promotional products industry have complicated businesses and transactions,” said Michael Stringer, Vice President and General Manager of America’s Suppliers, parent company of DollarDays. “Because these relationships are business-to-business-to-consumer, they tend to be larger orders with many moving parts and operationally complex, and require fine-tuning, as well as high degrees of product knowledge and execution. These ratings help distributors determine which suppliers to use for their promotional product needs.”

SAGE President, David Natinsky, said, “We treat our Supplier Rating Awards with the utmost respect, because they are a testament to each supplier’s dedication to product safety and customer service. This is why we’re so proud to recognize our award-winning suppliers for setting the standard of quality and integrity in the promotional products industry.”

Putting our customers first

While DollarDays is known for its work with global nonprofit organizations, we’re also one of the largest promotional products suppliers in the country. We work with thousands of promotional products distributors, and we maintain an inventory of 30,000 wholesale items from which businesses and organizations can choose.

Congratulations to the entire DollarDays team for the “A” rating, industry recognition and for continuing to put customers first.

Good360, DollarDays Grow National Partnership

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Good360, the global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving, and DollarDays today announced a new partnership that will increase the support of disaster-relief efforts, upholding Good360’s mission to get the right goods to the right people at the right time during all phases of disaster recovery. The agreement builds upon DollarDays’ efforts over the past three years to support Good360 and its diverse base of more than 75,000 nonprofit partners.

DollarDays is currently a leading provider of needed goods through Good360’s online community. Nonprofit organizations looking to maximize their donation dollars can access high-quality, low-cost products for their own charitable efforts. Highly needed products include baby and school supplies, blankets, hygiene kits, and clothing basics, such as shirts, hats, gloves, socks and underwear. DollarDays also supports Good360 with as-needed special orders, recently providing backpacks and school supplies for distribution within the Good360 nonprofit membership network.

“Good360 understands and invests in disaster-recovery preparation like no other organization,” said Shelly Chaney, Vice President and General Manager of DollarDays. “They’re ready to respond and quick to deploy the necessary aid when and wherever it’s needed to people struggling to endure unexpected challenges. By combining Good360’s expertise and experience with DollarDays’ wholesale supply engine, merchandise networks, pricing negotiation skills, and data and analytics tools, we’re creating a powerful force to respond to disasters.”

“With DollarDays, we get to work smarter and more effectively as partners together,” said Howard Sherman, CEO of Good360. “We can source exactly what is needed in the disaster field in order to meet the needs of our nonprofit partners as the demand arises. This relationship also allows us to pre-position highly needed, ‘no regret’ items that can be deployed quickly to disaster-impacted areas. DollarDays has created products and programs that help us and our partners, and will add tremendous value to our disaster-relief efforts.”

In 2017, DollarDays also donated five percent of sales for a week, raising more than $32,000 to help Good360 mobilize its recovery efforts in Texas following Hurricane Harvey.

About DollarDays
Founded in 2001, DollarDays is the leading supplier of wholesale goods for nonprofits, businesses and betterment organizations. By sourcing affordable products, backed by exceptional service and meaningful community engagement, we strive to inspire and empower our customers to accomplish their missions to improve the lives of people around the world. Recognized as the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office “2018 Product Exporter of the Year” and Internet Retailer Magazine’s “B2B E-commerce Marketer of the Year” for 2016 and 2017, DollarDays is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.dollardays.com.

About Good360
Good360’s mission is to transform lives by providing hope, dignity, and a sense of renewed possibility to individuals, families, and communities impacted by disasters or other challenging life circumstances who, without us, would struggle to find that hope. As the global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving, we partner with socially responsible companies to source highly needed goods and distribute them through our network of diverse nonprofits that support people in need. Good360 has distributed more than $9 billion in donated goods around the world, helping its network of more than 75,000 prequalified nonprofits strengthen communities and improve the lives of millions. Good360 is proud to partner with corporate donors such as Walmart, UPS, CVS Health Foundation, Amazon, Advance Auto Parts, RH (Restoration Hardware), American Eagle Outfitters, Tempur Sealy International, Mattel, Gap, Inc., Eddie Bauer, Levi Strauss & Company, and JPMorganChase. Good360 is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at https://www.good360.org.

Catholic Charities USA, DollarDays Announce Partnership

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Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) and DollarDays today announced a new partnership that will enable DollarDays to provide affordable product sourcing solutions to CCUSA’s network of 166 member agencies throughout the United States. The agreement encourages the organization’s local agencies to source school supplies, personal care products, disaster-relief items and other bulk goods directly from DollarDays as a means to reduce costs and grow the number of CCUSA constituents helped with the same funding.

We’re excited about our partnership with DollarDays. Our member agencies will now have easy and affordable access to items essential to their outreach efforts.

Jean Beil, Senior Vice President for Programs and Services, Catholic Charities

“It’s our mission to assist nonprofits with stretching their donation dollars,” explained Michael Stringer, Vice President and General Manager for DollarDays. “Not only will this partnership make DollarDays’ wholesale products available to CCUSA’s member agencies, but they’ll also be supported by our broad network of vendors.”

Jean Beil, Senior Vice President for Programs and Services at Catholic Charities, shares Stringer’s enthusiasm with the new alliance. “We’re excited about our partnership with DollarDays,” Beil stated. “Our member agencies will now have easy and affordable access to items essential to their outreach efforts.”

CCUSA is a national membership organization formed in 1910 for Catholic Charities agencies throughout the United States and its territories. CCUSA provides advocacy, education, strategic alliances and other services to support the efforts of member agencies to serve vulnerable populations.

DollarDays has a 17-year history of supplying nonprofits and charities across the country with wholesale goods for missions and service projects. DollarDays will be introduced as a new national partner and event sponsor at CCUSA’s Annual Gathering in Buffalo, New York, from Sept. 12-14, 2018.

About DollarDays
Founded in 2001, DollarDays is the leading supplier of wholesale goods for nonprofits, businesses and betterment organizations. By sourcing affordable products, backed by exceptional service and meaningful community engagement, we strive to inspire and empower our customers to accomplish their missions to improve the lives of people around the world. Recognized as the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office “2018 Product Exporter of the Year” and Internet Retailer Magazine’s “B2B E-commerce Marketer of the Year” for 2016 and 2017, DollarDays is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.dollardays.com.

About Catholic Charities USA
Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), a member of Caritas Internationalis, is the national office for the Catholic Charities ministry nationwide. CCUSA’s members provide help and create hope to more than 8 million people a year regardless of religious, social, or economic backgrounds.

DollarDays to Partner with Strikes for Kids for Charity Bowling Event Benefiting Local Youth

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Strikes for Kids is proud to announce the details surrounding the upcoming DollarDays Strikes for Kids Fresno Bowling Classic, presented by Rita’s Italian Ice of Fresno. The noted nonprofit organization Strikes for Kids specializes in coordinating sporting events to help bring together local communities. The organization plans on doing just that in Fresno on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at Bowlero, when they host their annual charity bowling event, which will be open to people of all ages and bowling skill levels.

Registration begins at 6:00 p.m., followed by a bowling session and a silent auction. The event will be hosted by former Fresno State standout and current Detroit Lions lineman Kenny Wiggins. The charity event is benefiting the Strikes for Kids Backpack Giveaway Program, presented by DollarDays. The program provides a minimum of 100 backpacks filled with school supplies to children from local youth organizations.

“Strikes for Kids has hosted more than 100 similar events nationally, so to have the opportunity to expand to the Central Valley—we are excited and looking forward to it,” said a Strikes for Kids representative. “This year, we look forward to giving the community a fun-filled bowling event that will help make a difference. To help show support, we are encouraging everyone to donate at the silent auction, buy a raffle ticket, and become a sponsor if they can.”

To register and learn more about the DollarDays Strikes for Kids Fresno Bowling Classic, visit the Strikes for Kids Fresno website directly at www.strikesforkidsfresno.com.

Ticket information:

  • Spectator Ticket: $20
  • Bowler or Lane Ticket: $35/$200 (includes 90 minutes of bowling, rental shoes, one pizza and a pitcher of soda per lane)

About Strikes for Kids
The nonprofit organization behind the event, Strikes For Kids, partners with more than 125 NFL and NBA athletes to enrich the lives of students and youth organizations in communities across the United States. They specialize in coordinating bowling, golf, and softball events that allow local communities an opportunity to come together while supporting a worthy cause.

About Rita’ Italian Ice
Rita’s Italian Ice opened its doors in Bensalem, Pa., in 1984 and has been dedicated to spreading ice, custard and happiness ever since. Now with more than 600 locations worldwide, guests around the world visit Rita’s to celebrate their everyday moments with freshly made cool treats in a fun-filled atmosphere. Known for its famous Italian ice made daily featuring real fruit and award-winning frozen custard, Rita’s serves a taste of happiness with each delicious treat. For more information about Rita’s Italian Ice, please call 1-800-677-7482 or visit www.ritasice.com. The Fresno, Calif., location opened its doors to the Fresno community in April 2017 and offers fundraising opportunities throughout the year. For more information and inquires, please visit www.ritasfranchises.com/fresno.

About DollarDays
Founded in 2001, DollarDays is the leading supplier of wholesale goods for nonprofits, businesses and betterment organizations. By sourcing affordable products, backed by exceptional service and meaningful community engagement, we strive to inspire and empower our customers to accomplish their missions to improve the lives of people around the world. Recognized as the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office “2018 Product Exporter of the Year” and Internet Retailer Magazine’s “B2B E-commerce Marketer of the Year” for 2016 and 2017, DollarDays is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.dollardays.com.

Full article here:
https://www.isstories.com/2018/07/07/dollardays-to-partner-up-with-strikes-for-kids-for-charity-bowling-event-benefiting-local-youth/

The Nonprofit Gap: How DollarDays Uses Data to Assist Partners

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The term “big data” can be intimidating to nonprofits, many of which may not have the funds to staff a dedicated analytics team. Though it can be difficult for these charitable groups to obtain data, they remain passionate about their cause and how data can help their outreach efforts.

“Big data” is described as large data sets used to analyze and identify any patterns or trends. In its 17-year history, DollarDays has collected a wealth of big data that we use daily to help our nonprofit partners. Below we share our experiences and how your charity can learn from big data.

Shared Data

Whether you’re a large or small nonprofit, data is a critical piece of your business. Data can assist with identifying successes and areas of improvement, such as how your organization is spending donation dollars. By partnering with a company like DollarDays, you can determine budget spend, address programs and how your service projects are impacting the community. Imagine being able to aggregate your entire spend history across chapters or develop a graph of purchasing behavior from your predecessors. What if you could compile a presentation for your board showing the cost savings across the year or even compare seasonal trends with that of a competing nonprofit? All of these would make your organization stronger and more adept at spending donation dollars.

Partnering for Data

Unless you’re a data scientist or analytical researcher, becoming data-literate can be daunting. Even when you attempt to collect data required by your board or constituents, they still might need you to go beyond the measurement of ROI in programs and into focusing on key metrics like effectiveness or analysis of future direction. That’s why it’s more important than ever to rely on an organization that has the experience to correctly mine historical trends. DollarDays offers a number of data reports and resources related to health and human services that can help your organization develop funding proposals or create budgets. Our team can also help you understand this data and learn different areas where data can be applied.

Delivery of Data

An important part of data is the ability to present it in a way your audiences will understand. DollarDays uses a tailored, case-by-case approach to help charitable organizations like yours visualize data, ask the right questions, and discover new opportunities to complete and assess their projects and missions more efficiently.

According to Jeffrey Victorian, DollarDays’ Business Intelligence Manager, “Organizations don’t know which local chapters are purchasing and when, so this can result in misappropriation of resources and inefficiencies. We work with the organizational headquarters to deliver data from each chapter to help develop a deep, visual perspective of trends, allowing insights to emerge that provide a global representation of the organization.”

What Makes DollarDays the Ideal Data Partner

Supported by 17 years of purchasing data from charities across the United States, DollarDays has a wealth of experience in extracting trends down to the product level. We can not only pinpoint when cost savings are made, but we can ultimately determine how the industry is transforming, what nonprofits are maximizing their spend, and how seasonality is being impacted by natural disasters or social change. We also can forecast future spend opportunities, cost savings and other variables.

“The work we do in partnership with local and national nonprofits is powerful and enables us to support the positive impact that they have in their communities,” explains Victorian. “Every time we help them understand their organizational model, their spending habits, and the impact that social and environmental change has on their fiscal year, the better they can move forward to help their cause. We’re working with real-world data, and, when you get to the bottom of it, we’re helping this organization help their community.”

The American Library Association, DollarDays Announcing a New Member Benefits Program

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The American Library Association (ALA) and DollarDays are announcing a new member benefits program. Nationwide, thousands of libraries have found DollarDays a low-cost provider of many of the items they need to successfully run their libraries. ALA members now have the added benefit of free shipping and no minimum order on more than 55,000 wholesale and closeout products to stretch their dollars even further. Visit ALA.DollarDays.com to register your library today.

ALA organizational members also have the opportunity to participate in the DollarDays Wishlist Program. This program is designed to raise in-kind donations of specific items that a[n organization] has requested or needs to support their library system. Organizational members can decide what type of messaging, what logo and what products are most needed at their library.

To take advantage of these new member benefits, ALA members should simply register their account at ALA.DollarDays.com. Members interested in signing up their organization in DollarDays’ Wishlist Program can visit ALA.dollardays.com/aboutus/wishlist.aspx for more information or call (877) 837-9569 to speak with a DollarDays account manager.

“We are happy to be working directly with the American Library Association. I personally enjoy visiting my local library several times a month and know the services and benefits it provides cannot be duplicated. We look forward to helping you stretch your dollars even further during these difficult times,” said Marc Joseph, founder and president [of] DollarDays.

DollarDays has over 1.5 million registered users and ships bulk items by the case to all 50 states and 30 foreign countries. DollarDays is a web-based virtual warehouse where libraries, schools, churches, nonprofit organizations and business owners can find great deals on more than 55,000 consumer products.

About DollarDays
Founded in 2001, DollarDays is the leading supplier of wholesale goods for nonprofits, businesses and betterment organizations. By sourcing affordable products, backed by exceptional service and meaningful community engagement, we strive to inspire and empower our customers to accomplish their missions to improve the lives of people around the world. Recognized as the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office “2018 Product Exporter of the Year” and Internet Retailer Magazine’s “B2B E-commerce Marketer of the Year” for 2016 and 2017, DollarDays is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.dollardays.com.

International Checkout Inc. Announces Launch of AJAX Single-page Checkout

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International Checkout, Inc., the leading international logistics solution provider, today announced the implementation of an AJAX-driven single-page checkout feature.

By consolidating its multiple-page checkout system into one page, International Checkout (IC) expects to provide its 50-plus online partners (including Internet Retailer Top 500’s Beach Audio, DollarDays, Stacks and Stacks, and Working Person’s Enterprises) a significant increase in conversions and customer satisfaction for their international orders.

Joining online powerhouses Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, MySpace, eBay, YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia and the BBC, International Checkout has taken an important step forward by incorporating AJAX technology into its platform. AJAX technology allows webpages to be more responsive and facilitates new design and usability features such as mouseover navigation, streaming content and interactive consumer reviews. Small amounts of data are exchanged with the server behind the scenes, enabling the user to make changes without the entire webpage reloading. This results in an enhanced online shopping experience, consumer satisfaction and loyalty.

“Studies show that over 50% of customers abandon their shopping carts before completing their online purchase,” says International Checkout’s CEO, Saskia Strick. “By streamlining the process with single-page checkout, we anticipate a significant boost in conversions, which will translate to increased sales volume for all of our partners.”

Through integration with IC’s solution, the online retailer transfers its international consumer’s shopping cart to IC to complete the checkout process. With the new AJAX single-page checkout feature, international consumers will complete the entire checkout process right on the retailer’s IC landing page. International clientele will now experience a faster, easier level of performance, which is expected to significantly reduce the rate of cart abandonment.

Original article here: 
https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2007/08/14/international-checkout-inc-announces-launch-of-ajax-single-page/