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Salvation Army QR codes make digital donations possible for contact-free support

11/23/202011/23/2020 Jorge Gonzalez

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The Mankato, Minnesota branch of the charity isn’t relying on cash for its red kettle drive this year. Red donation kettles are synonymous with the holiday season, but Mankato Salvation Army QR codes in Minnesota mean those in the spirit to give won’t need to have cash in their hands. Every red kettle in the city will be equipped with QR barcodes for Apple Pay and Google Pay donations. Since this year consumers are particularly careful about contact-free experiences, even fewer than normal are paying by cash. This means that…

QR codes help StreetSmart to accept donations for charity

06/02/201505/30/2015 Stephanie Beck

The organization is using quick response codes to make it easier for people to donate to homelessness causes. An organization in the United Kingdom called StreetSmart, which works to collect funds for homelessness charities has now added a new mobile technique based on QR codes to the number of different ways that it accepts donations. The goal is to provide a new way for consumers to donate, but through a technology that is very inexpensive. Traditionally, StreetSmart has been able to accumulate donations by asking participating restaurants to request that…

QR codes still requiring some trial and error by small businesses

09/16/201309/14/2013 Julie Campbell

As even marketers with considerable experience and budgets struggle with the ideal use of the barcodes, so do smaller companies. Although it is reaching the point that QR codes can be found virtually everywhere that there is marketing, from product packaging to flyers, and from billboards to brochures, companies – large and small – are still trying to discover exactly how to take advantage of what they have to offer. The true potential of quick response barcodes still has yet to be reached, despite the fact that they are broadly…

QR codes used on toilet paper to promote HIV awareness

03/18/201303/16/2013 John Montgallo

An Italian charity is using the quick response barcodes for education in public restrooms. Sieropositivo, a charity in Italy that works to promote HIV awareness, is using QR codes printed on toilet paper in public restrooms to help to spread the word about the disease and increase the knowledge that women have about the way that it is spread. Women who visit those lavatories can use their smartphones to scan the barcode. The toilet paper with the QR codes is being used in women’s public washrooms in trendy clubs located…

QR codes used for unique awareness charity campaign

03/16/201303/14/2013 Julie Campbell

The barcodes were used to help replicate the experience of being homeless and generate donations. Fiftyfifty, a German charitable organization that supports the homeless, has started to use QR codes printed on blankets in a unique way in order to help to generate donations to their cause. The experience included freezing cold cinemas that helped people to experience a touch of what the homeless feel. The charity ran the campaign using QR codes from December through January in cinemas across Germany. The theaters involved in the experience turned their temperatures…