Fast Company has announced its 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards honoring DailyKarma in the software category. The fifth annual awards honored the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.
As an Honorable Mention Winner of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards, DailyKarma is recognized for empowering e-commerce brands to raise money for nonprofits and encourage consumers to do good by their purchase. By streamlining the costly and lengthy processes and compliance of launching a donation campaign, DailyKarma democratizes giving back by making it accessible to all brands, no matter their size.
Our platform offers 7+ unique campaigns to raise money for more than 1.6 million nonprofits worldwide, who are able to expand their reach and connect with consumers who support their respective causes.
“We’ve created a way for e-commerce brands to leverage their consumer influence for the greater good by helping nonprofits in need that wouldn’t otherwise have been able to reach these consumers. By rallying the e-commerce world, a burgeoning socially-aware consumer base, and niche nonprofits looking for ways to raise more money to keep changing the world, our brand partners have proved time and time again that everyone can play a role in changing the world.”– Patricia Dao, CEO of DailyKarma
We at DailyKarma launched our platform, Shop for Good, in response to the evolving e-commerce landscape and consumer demand for their favorite brands to support causes and impact the world for the better. In 2020, Shop for Good was at the forefront — from Covid-19 to the racial justice movement (including events surrounding Black Lives Matter as well as the Asian American community) and beyond.
In its fifth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcases 33 winners, more than 400 finalists, and more than 800 honorable mentions—with Health and Wellness, AI & Data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 4,000 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more. Plus, several new categories were added, including Pandemic Response, Urban Design, and Architecture. The 2021 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Brazil to Denmark to Vietnam.
Showcasing some of the world’s most inventive entrepreneurs and companies tackling exigent global challenges, Fast Company’s Summer 2021 issue (on newsstands May 10, 2021) highlights, among others, a lifesaving bassinet; the world’s largest carbon sink, thanks to carbon-eating concrete; 3D-printed schools; an at-home COVID-19 testing kit; a mobile voting app; and the world’s cleanest milk.
“There is no question our society and planet are facing deeply troubling times. So, it’s important to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, impact, design, scalability, and passion to solve these problems. Our journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have discovered some of the most groundbreaking projects that have launched since the start of 2020.”– Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company
At a time of social upheaval and social distancing, voting with one’s dollar has been one of the most immediate and convenient ways to contribute.
“In what is likely one of the defining years of our generation, we saw our community of brands come together to connect with their shoppers around giving back. This singular desire to be more conscious in our purchases created a groundswell of lasting impact for our nonprofit partners locally and globally.”– Melaney Lubey, Chief Impact Officer at DailyKarma
About DailyKarma:
DailyKarma, based in Los Angeles, CA, is a technology company specializing in building innovative solutions that connect e-commerce brands with the world’s growing base of socially conscious consumers to help the greater good. DailyKarma is led by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs, marketers, technologies, and activists with a mission to build innovative solutions that help brands leverage consumer power for the greater good. DailyKarma’s enterprise platform, Shop for Good, enables brands of all sizes to launch turnkey give back campaigns such as donating for discounts, rounding up change, and donating a portion of sales to nonprofits. Shop for Good has become the highest-rated cause marketing app in Shopify and is recognized as a Shopify Unite Fund recipient. To date, DailyKarma’s brand partner network is compromised by 2,000 plus brands who have engaged nearly 1 million shopper donations through its technology.
About the World Changing Ideas Awards:
World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start working on solving the problems that affect us all.
