Universal charity card system

A charity system facilitating contributions from a merchant to a charitable entity comprising:

• a. a first function for receiving and storing entity data of entities willing to influence a select group of public to patronize merchants who are willing to contribute a percent of their sales to the entities',
• b. a second function for receiving and storing data of members of the select group desiring to patronize the merchants willing to contribute to the entities;
• c. a third function printing and mailing a charity card encoded with charity identification and member identification to the members of the select group;
• d. a fourth function in a merchant computer system with a sale terminal enabling reading the charity card and computing a contribution by multiplying a sale amount and a percent of sale and storing
• said contribution data identified by entity identification and member identification into a merchant database.

A method facilitating contributions from a merchant to a charitable entity comprising the steps of:

• a. making available to a select group of public desiring to benefit the entity a charity card with encoded entity identification;
• b. receiving by the merchant at a merchant computer system with a sale terminal the charity card by members of the select group;
• and
• c. reading by the merchant sale terminal of the charity card, computing a contribution by multiplying a sale amount and a percent of sale and allocating the contribution to the entity, wherein the merchant will contribute to the entity the percent of sales of the merchant to the select group.