Shop and Do Good: eGood Offers Opportunities to Donate to Local Charities

A local in-store and mobile app is giving customers the option of supporting their local charity while they shop.

eGood is a Glendora-based tech company that has created a mobile app and installed in-store iPads allowing customers to donate 3 to 5 percent of their purchases to local charities, including the Foundation for Glendora Schools, the Bryan Clay Foundation and the Claremont Educational Foundation.

Every time customers check-in at participating stores using the app on their mobile devices or the in-store app, that business will donate 3 to 5 percent of the purchase to a local charity.

Founder Zack Swire called the project a “challenge” for local residents and businesses to give back to the “charities that their community cares about.”

Since the company’s soft launch earlier this year, they have help raise more than $5,000 to local charities.

The app started in Classic Coffee in Glendora and has since expanded to locations throughout the East San Gabriel Valley.

Other participating Glendora businesses include Taco Grill, Luca Bella, The Loft, Envy Me Fashions, Domenico Jr.’s, Da Avere, Nutrishop, Knot Too Shabby, Glendora Florist and Glendora Village Pet Shop.

Claremont businesses include Tattle Tails, Union on Yale and the Pita Pit.

You can explore businesses and local charities on the company’s website at http://www.egood.com. You can also suggest your favorite businesses to join the cause online.

For more information, call (888) 932-9225 or e-mail support@eGood.com.