Patent ID: 8597126

Claim:
A method for incentivizing donations using virtual currencies, comprising: determining, by a system provider device, that a user is associated with a game in at least one database; determining, by the system provider device, a location of the user; determining, by the system provider device, that a plurality of charity providers are associated with the game in the at least one database and that each of the plurality of charity providers are located within a predetermined distance of the location of the user; reviewing, by the system provider device, a purchase history of the user in the at least one database; determining, by the system provider device, that a plurality of purchases in the purchase history each include a purchase date that exceeds a predetermined age; sending, by the system provider device, a donation incentivization message to a user device of the user over a network, wherein the donation incentivization message includes identifiers for each of the plurality of purchases that include the purchase date that exceeds the predetermined age and a map that is displayable on the user device with an identification of each of the plurality of charity providers on the map; sending, by the system provider device, a plurality of redemption codes to a first charity provider device of at least one of the plurality of the charity providers over the network; and receiving, by the system provider device, a first redemption code of the plurality of redemption codes over the network from at least one of the user device or the first charity provider device, wherein the first redemption code is associated with the user and a donation from the user to the charity provider of at least one of the plurality of purchases, and wherein in response to receiving the first redemption code, a user account that is associated with the user in the at least one database is credited, by the system provider device, with a virtual currency amount that is determined using the donation of the at least one of the plurality of purchases.