Helpen's nonprofit postcards are delivered once a week with three different nonprofits for your family to select from.
Helpen is for profit C corp. We believe that it is time to prove that you can build a successful business that benefits humanity in a multitude of ways. It is an ambitious vision, but one that we believe we can pull off.
If you have a donation issue, please contact Helpen through our contact page. Select "Donation Issue" from the dropdown menu.
We usually believe we want as many choices as possible. But in truth, it becomes much more difficult to make decisions after three options. And that's for adults! Helpen is built around allowing kids to choose who to help and we are able to maintain that goal by keeping it at three nonprofits.
We sincerely apologize that your card became damaged in the mail. By the time you actually receive your postcard, another one is already in route. If you cannot use postcards, login to Helpen and ask for a printable version. We will email you a set of nonprofits right away.
Helpen's mission is to shape the next generation into the generous and empathetic leaders of tomorrow. This includes having a wider circle of care, not only for people, but for our planet as well. Our postcards come from a direct mailer that partners with Eden Reforestation Projects to plant trees wherever they are needed most in Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nepal, Haiti, Indonesia, Mozambique, Kenya, and Central America. The mailer offsets their paper consumption by planting significantly more trees than they deplete in the fulfillment of their print and mail products. Since November 2017, they've planted over 160,000 trees—more than twice the paper used for the mail sent through their platform. Helpen takes it a step further by making sure that your first postcards will enable your family to plant trees right away, drastically offsetting your paper consumption while on the Helpen platform.
We do not pass along your personal identifiable information to nonprofits.
Ages 5 - 12 are the prime age range for Helpen.
Helpen is a customer of Stripe, a payment platform that securely stores your payment information. Helpen does not have access to your payment details.
We do not sell your personal information to any third parties. Our entire business model is built around providing value to our helpers and nonprofits. We make it a priority to work towards providing you with the most impactful experience with as little identifiable information as possible.
We use Stripe as our payment provider. So when your family gives, the platform handles the routing of your choices. We do not interfere with where your money goes.
Yes! Currently, the default donation amount is set to $1 for each helper. Once you start your Helpen session, there will be an opportunity for helpers to change their individual amounts to up to $5.
Yes. We are paying the transaction fees so that the entire donation will go to the charity.
We are starting out with a group of preselected nonprofits that will soon morph to be much more. Eventually, we will enable you to select which main categories you would like your family to see and when.
Significant checks are made to insure that all charities are registered 501(c)(3) organizations. We will be using several ratings agencies including, but not limited to, Charity Navigator, GuideStar, and GiveWell to ensure that the operations are legit. Additional key metrics like full time employees, annual revenue, and achievable goals will play a role in validating nonprofits.
First, it's important to know, because of our structure, the nonprofit must agree to connect with our platform. We strive to identify nonprofits that are appropriate for kids of all ages. We focus on education, animals, environment, poverty/disadvantaged, and health. We're starting off by establishing a group of nonprofits from across the country that have proven they can execute, but more importantly have bought in to Helpen's mission of shaping today's youth into a generation of helpers. We also use ratings agencies like GuideStar, Charity Navigator and Givewell. We hope to continue to grow the nonprofit pool substantially as we move forward and include as many diverse causes and organizations as we can. That said we start from an understanding, first and foremost, that families have invited us into their homes. We understand that is a privilege we cannot take for granted. We will work tirelessly to create a system for parents that not only gives them the ability to decide what comes across their table but also when.
If you would like to cancel your subscription, go to your Helpen profile and click on the subscription tab on the left hand side.
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