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AFCEA Educational Foundation Partners with CauseNetwork to Introduce Innovative Fundraising InitiativeFAIRFAX, Va., June 4, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new fundraising partnership with the CauseNetwork enables consumers to access discounts at online stores that donate a percentage of the shopping total to the AFCEA Educational Foundation. Powered by the CauseNetwork's marketing eco-system, supporters of the foundation's scholarships can register at https://ShopForSTEM.org/ and venture through the web portal to shop for discounts on items at more than 1,000 merchants, including Amazon, Walmart, Target and Macy's. "The Shop for STEM initiative is a great way to help the AFCEA Educational Foundation proactively support the academic incentives for high school STEM classroom programs," says Vince Patton, executive director, AFCEA Educational Foundation. "The CauseNetwork was built with the needs and oftentimes limited resources of a charitable organiztion in mind," says Glen Gulyas, co-founder of the CauseNetwork. "The CauseNetwork creates and hosts an online e-commerce platform for nonprofits like the AFCEA Educational Foundation. We give the merchants a philanthropic opportunity to commit to up to a 10 percent donation directly back to the AFCEA Educational Foundation STEM scholarship program for each online transaction." Supporting the Educational Foundation through the CauseNewtwork is simple:
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