Patent ID: 8032463

Claim:
A system for providing recognition for donors donating to non-profit organizations, the system comprising: a network server to communicate with a plurality of computer users over a computer network, said network server including a computer processor coupled to a computer memory and a network interface; and a computer program encoded within the memory, said computer program comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the network server to perform the steps of: transmitting over the computer network an electronic form to a first computer user to use to make a donation to the non-profit organization; receiving over the computer network form data entered by the first computer user into the electronic form, wherein the form data include an amount of the donation and payment information; obtaining over the computer network an authorization for payment from a payment funding server of a financial institution associated with the donor; in response to obtaining the payment authorization from the financial institution, automatically adding data identifying the first computer user to a publicly available donor list published on the computer network; receiving over the computer network form data entered by the first computer user into the electronic form, wherein the form data include additional information about the first computer user; and presenting to a second computer user viewing the donor list over the computer network the additional information about the first computer user in response to second computer user selecting the first computer user from the donor list.