Patent ID: 8442882

Claim:
A method for managing charitable donations of a donor, comprising: receiving donation information associated with a charitable donation of the donor from a browser extension of a browser application, wherein the browser application is executing on a user system of the donor, and wherein the browser extension obtains the donation information independent of web content presented in the browser application; receiving, from a tax preparation entity using a tax preparation application executing on a tax preparation system of the tax preparation entity, an information request for the donation information of the donor; in response to the information request, sending the donation information of the donor through the tax preparation application to the tax preparation entity, wherein the donation information is used by the tax preparation entity to generate tax documentation for the donor; sending an address of a donation recipient and a starting location to a global positioning application, wherein the donation recipient is associated with the charitable donation; receive, from the global positioning application, a set of directions from the starting location to the address of the donation recipient; and sending the set of directions to the browser application, wherein the set of directions are presented to the donor.