UPDATE: This link is no longer functional. We're leaving up this post as a record of the project, and so people can still view the comments.
If you shop on Amazon in the countries listed below, you can earn a substantial commission for charity by doing so via the links below. This is a cost-free way to do a lot of good, so I'd encourage you to do so! You can bookmark one of the direct links to Amazon below and then use that bookmark every time you shop.
The commission will be around 5%, though it varies by product category. This is substantially better than the AmazonSmile scheme available in the US, which only gives 0.5% of the money you spend to charity. Amazon's 'Associates Program' pays this commission for referring purchasers to them, from the unaltered purchase price (details here). The money goes to Amazon accounts that I've set up for this project, and from there I'll always direct it only to GiveWell-recommended charities. For ease of administration and to get tax-deductibility, I'll send it to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative until further notice, though if you make a large purchase which yields over £50 of commission you can ask me to donate it to another charity.
Direct links to Amazon for your bookmarks
If you'd like to shop for charity, bookmark the appropriate link below now:
I'll add other links here and on the main 'Shop for Charity' page later, including for France. I'd love to hear suggestions for good commission schemes in other countries. If you'd like to share these links with friends and family, please point them to this page or even better this project's main page, as this is the safest way to ensure that the commission gets earned.
Happy shopping!
'Shop for Charity' is a Charity Science project
We've put a fair bit of thought into how to structure this project to minimise or negate the chance that at some point down the road Amazon decides they don't want Charity Science as an affiliate, as people have discussed in comments. This does seem to be the most plausible downside, though we think that it makes sense to deal with it if and when it arises and it likely wouldn't be that bad. Given that other individuals and non-profits have promoted similar affiliate links, often presented as a way to support them or their charity, it is improbable. Nonetheless to make it clear that we're directing fresh sales to Amazon, we've redone the 'Shop for Charity' page to feature a bookstore with selected books relevant to EA. You can see the new copy there, which is well within the space that Amazon has allowed in the past (we haven't changed this post to keep the comments making sense, and it'll be off the Forum front page soon, with the Shop for Charity page itself what people link to in future).
Charity Science does have an advantage in running an affiliate account as the commission goes to it (as Amazon intends), and only gets passed through to other charities because all unrestricted money going to us does, as a matter of policy. So it's not like we're an individual saying "If you buy through me I'll donate some money to charity"; it's a standard case of the money going to the entity that has the affiliate account.
Seems as good as it's going to get. I like the pivot toward becoming a shop to drive novel sales. Thanks for your hard work on the issue.