Patent ID: 7996262

Claim:
A method for facilitating the redeeming of affinity points as political contributions, comprising: a) querying an individual, via the website of a political organization, whether said individual would like to donate points from an affinity program to said political organization; b) presenting said individual via a server, when the result of said querying step (a) is positive, with a list of affinity programs from which to donate points to said political organization, and, when negative, the facilitating method does not proceed with points from an affinity program; c) receiving, from said individual, a selection of a desired affinity program from among said list of affinity programs; d) receiving, from said individual, a desired amount of points to be redeemed from said desired affinity program; e) deducting said desired amount of points to be redeemed from an affinity program selected in step c) by said individual; f) converting said desired amount of points into a cash equivalent amount; and g) forwarding at least a portion of said cash equivalent amount to said political organization.