Project by James Rising:
This project is part research and part social entrepreneurship. The goal is to construct a software system that can evaluate the unintended consequences of individual purchases, and match them to charities that ameliorate those specific effects. Using this framework, consumers could get detailed information about the effects of their purchases and have an easy way to respond to that information, just by copying their credit card statements or entering their receipts on a website, or (in collaboration with a store’s customer-tracking system) getting the information immediately when buying their items.