Amazon has recently given us an option that
we could not refuse: If you shop their website
using smile.amazon.com (known as "AmazonSmile"), instead of
amazon.com,
they will donate a percentage of your purchase
price to the charity of your choice (which can
be the Mission)! It is
not much now, but if millions do this, it will
be a good amount for the Mission
to use.
To select the Mission as
your charity and begin shopping, use the link on
our
donations page. After you do this
once, AmazonSmile should remember your charity
choice, so you can just go directly to
smile.amazon.com, from then on (it will show your
choice in the top left of the page). Make
sure you remember to order whatever you are
buying from AmazonSmile, not Amazon (it is easy
to forget), and see that your donation goes to
the Mission of Maitreya.
Hopefully this will amount to something
substantial. However, even one extra
dollar will help.
It seems the Mission has
eventually reached the point of focusing on
practical considerations, as many of these
announcements concentrate on expansion of our
business aspects, such as creating products and
bringing money to the Mission.
Money is an important part of the Mission of
God. There has never been a successful
religion without sufficient financial support!