Community Impact
EVERY PURCHASE SHOULD
DO A LITTLE MORE.
WHEN YOU SHOP ON OH THAT!, PART OF THE PURCHASE HELPS SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY.
OH THAT! is a for-profit business. We want sellers to make money, small businesses to grow and creators to get paid.
We also believe commerce can do more than move products. So we are building community benefit into the model itself, not into an occasional fundraiser.
OH THAT! has not launched yet. The mechanisms on this page are what we intend to build, and each one is labeled so you can judge whether we actually did it.
IMPACT ISN’T ONLY MONEY.
Sometimes it’s a nonprofit reaching a new audience. An artist or performer getting a bigger stage. A creator being discovered. A business finding new customers.
Money matters. But so do attention, opportunity, connection and visibility.
THAT’S WHAT LOOKING AFTER EACH OTHER LOOKS LIKE AT OH THAT!
You shop.
We set something aside.
The community benefits.
Eligible OH THAT! marketplace activity is designed to generate a community-benefit contribution from OH THAT!'s own economics. That contribution comes out of our side of the transaction, not out of your total.
And for shoppers who want to do a little more, we plan to make voluntary checkout contributions simple too, such as rounding an order up or adding a small amount.
The exact contribution formula is still being finalized, so no percentage is published yet. This commitment applies to eligible marketplace activity. Sponsorship revenue and other company revenue are not automatically part of it. Nothing here is a customer donation or a tax-deductible charitable contribution.
Your purchase can do more.
There are two separate things happening, and we want the difference to be obvious.
What OH THAT! does
OH THAT! CONTRIBUTES FROM WHAT WE EARN.
Eligible marketplace activity is designed to generate a community-benefit contribution from OH THAT!. You are not being asked to spend more, and nothing is added to your total.
Planned. Not yet live.
YOUR PURCHASE CAN HELP.
For shoppers who want to do a little more, we plan to offer simple voluntary checkout contributions: rounding an order up, or adding a small amount to support the featured organization. Entirely optional, never required.
Planned at checkout. Illustration only.
- Your order
- $42.63
- Round up
- $43.00
- Added to the featured organization
- $0.37
Example figures. This feature is not live, and the amounts shown are not real transactions.
This is not an additional donation and is not a tax-deductible charitable contribution. Nothing is added to your total. Payment handling, refund treatment and the legal classification of voluntary contributions are still being determined, so we make no claims about tax deductibility or tax receipts.
A shopper-facing beneficiary-selection feature does not exist yet. If we build one, we will describe exactly how it works before it goes live.
Fundraise on OH THAT!
Want to raise money using OH THAT!?
That's a different thing — and it's also possible.
The contributions above come from OH THAT!'s own marketplace activity. Separately, organizations can use OH THAT! as fundraising infrastructure: bring your silent auction, live auction, donated products, travel and experiences onto the platform and take them beyond the room.
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Participating organizations receive proceeds from their fundraising activity subject to applicable platform, payment-processing and disclosed transaction costs. Participation and auction functionality may be subject to eligibility, jurisdiction and platform requirements.
Featured organizations
Someone gets the spotlight.
Featured organization
THIS SPACE IS RESERVED.
No organization has been selected yet. When one is, its name goes here.
We intend to feature nonprofit and community organizations for defined periods, beginning with a cadence we can actually deliver. Think a featured organization of the month.
That might also mean a featured organization for a particular show, a drop or a special event. The more commerce happening on OH THAT!, the more frequently we may be able to spotlight organizations in ways that are actually meaningful.
THE POINT ISN'T TO ROTATE LOGOS FASTER. IT'S TO CREATE ENOUGH COMMERCE AND ATTENTION FOR THE PARTICIPATION TO MATTER.
No organizations have been selected yet, and no cadence beyond a starting monthly concept is promised.
Do good.
Show the math.
We are not publishing numbers we have not settled. When the program is defined, these are the parts we intend to disclose:
- How the program works
- What marketplace activity qualifies
- How the community-benefit amount is calculated
- Which organizations participate
- How and when funds are distributed
NO FUZZY CAUSE MARKETING.
NO PRETENDING THE WHOLE PURCHASE GOES TO CHARITY.
SHOW THE MATH. SHOW THE RECEIPTS.
You've heard this before.
So have we.
Companies talk about community. Campaigns come and go. Checks get announced and nobody quite knows what actually happened.
We understand the skepticism.
So don't take OH THAT!'s word for it.
WATCH THE NUMBERS.
WATCH WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
WATCH WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
No implied endorsement
An organization does not have to endorse OH THAT! simply because it may benefit from a program.
No guilt-based selling
The product and the experience still have to earn the purchase. Community benefit is an added result, not a reason to buy something mediocre.
No mystery math
When distributions begin, we intend to show what was generated, how it was calculated, where it went and when.
No credit for money that never moved
A pledge is not impact. A press release is not impact. The accounting matters when the benefit actually reaches its destination.
Impact reporting
The receipts will go here.
Once community-benefit distributions begin, this is where we intend to show the evidence: what was generated, how it was calculated, which organizations benefited, when distributions happened and the methodology behind the program. These sections stay empty until there are real numbers. We will not fill them with illustrations.
TOTAL COMMUNITY BENEFIT GENERATED
Coming after launch
Reported once eligible marketplace purchases begin.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
Coming after launch
Published as organizations join the program.
CURRENT / PREVIOUS BENEFICIARIES
Coming after launch
Listed by program period once distributions begin.
DISTRIBUTION HISTORY
Coming after launch
What was set aside, what was distributed and when.
PROGRAM METHODOLOGY
Coming after launch
How eligibility and the community-benefit amount are calculated.
The Great Give-Off
And sometimes,
we'll make a show out of it.
Community impact is not limited to purchase-linked contributions. Sometimes we can build an actual show around it.
THE GREAT GIVE-OFF is a planned OH THAT! Original where participating organizations rally their communities inside entertaining commerce programming: attention, participation, competition and benefit in one place.
That's a show.
It has not aired yet, and no fundraising totals are promised. Our community commitment is bigger than any one show.
Want your organization
to be part of this?
We're building relationships with nonprofit and community organizations that want to participate in new ways to connect commerce, entertainment and community benefit.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BECOME OUR MARKETING DEPARTMENT.
Participation should not require an organization to promote OH THAT!, endorse our company, supply an audience or pretend a program is more meaningful than it is.
If there's a fit, we'll define it clearly. If there isn't, that's fine too.
If we use an organization's name, logo or story publicly, we ask first.
Different organizations may fit in different ways. That could mean being a featured organization for a period, participating in a show such as The Great Give-Off, being part of a special campaign, or working with OH THAT! and a sponsor on something built around a particular community need.
We're deliberately leaving room for good ideas.
Nothing here guarantees selection, funding, exclusivity or a specific format. Program eligibility and timing are still being defined.
BENEFIT FROM OH THAT! COMMUNITY IMPACT
For organizations that may be supported through OH THAT!'s own marketplace-generated community contributions and programming.
RAISE MONEY USING OH THAT!
For organizations that want to run their own auctions, offers and fundraising events on OH THAT!. A separate program from the contributions above.
OH THAT! IS PROUDLY FOR-PROFIT.
COMMUNITY IMPACT IS BUILT INTO THE ECONOMIC MODEL.
THE STRONGER THE MARKETPLACE BECOMES, THE GREATER THE POTENTIAL COMMUNITY BENEFIT.
OH THAT! is a company, not a charity. We are not a nonprofit, and we are not asking anyone to treat a purchase as a donation. A healthy commercial marketplace simply creates more room for community benefit, and we would rather be honest about that than dress it up.
Program details, contribution formula, eligibility, distribution timing and participating organizations are still being finalized. Nothing on this page is a solicitation for a charitable donation, and amounts set aside by OH THAT! are not tax-deductible contributions by shoppers.