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Google has been finding new ways to use its technological power for the greater good. Its newest effort arrives to the Google Play store as “One Today,” an app that lets you donate to charities in a new and innovative way. One Today is a beautiful application full of Google design language, beautiful pictures, and plenty of do-goodedness. One Today is currently invite only however you can still download the application and show your interest.
The first time you open the application you are greeted by instructions on how One Today works. You are then immediately taken to the landing page which is usually the charity that is seeing the most action. When I first opened the application, the charity was for Em”powering” the Def in Sierra Leone – a charity for giving solar power to deaf schools. You have two options to make a difference here; you can either donate $1 to the charity, or match contributions meaning if someone donated $1, I would match that contribution – making the total donation $2.
When you swipe to the right, you are shown a menu page where you can track your impact, pay your balance, and view your profile. I would imagine as you make more donations, your impact grows giving your profile greater meaning. Looking at your impact isn’t just a number of how much you donated – but it also tells you what your donation does. At the time of using the application, $93 were donated to Em”powering” the Def in Sierra Leone which totaled in over three days of solar power. I found myself checking back often to see how the charity was doing.
Overall I believe One Today will be a successful project from Google. Being a technology geek, there was definitely a feeling of satisfaction when using my phone for good. The only real disappointing feature about One Today was that it would not let me donate to more than one charity per day. I hope that restriction is soon lifted because I found myself wanting to get involved with more charities. Google One Today is available in the Google Play Store now.
This is a poorly written article. I had no idea what One Today was until half way through the second paragraph. You should rewrite this.
Or maybe you’re just too stupid to figure it out. Seemed abundantly clear right off the bat what the article was about. Take your armchair grading somewhere else.
You sound offended.
Actually I think YOU just got burned so the offense goes to: canistr
This would be my first comment on Phandroid (meaning I had to register). @canistr, you have a poorly written comment. MarcMaiden lead into the function of the app by first explaining possibilities why Google would have created it. Which leads into his personal experience, he then explains the design and his first use of it. Seems like a fine article to me. Instead of bashing the writer, you should probably give some type of positive/ productive criticism, unless you’re just trying to be a complete tool, in which case you succeeded.
It’s abundantly clear that an explanation of the app should be within the first paragraph.
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Is this limited to small donation amounts or can I make a last second donation of a few grand for tax reasons? And is there an option to go to a website to print out a receipt for all of your donations? Again, for tax reasons.
TheGeek – I’ve been ban-hammered for life from DSLR.
that sucks. i never go there anymore, it got boring. what was your username there?