Written by Chante Stoeckley, MEd, BCBA, LBA and Kate McKenna, MEd, MSEd, BCBA, LBA
Association for Science in Autism Treatment

help ASAT every time you shop amazonDo you believe in ASAT’s mission to spread the word about evidence-based treatments for autism? Would you like to help? Would you donate to ASAT if it didn’t cost you a penny and all it took was a few mouse clicks? If you shop at Amazon, it’s easy to have Amazon donate a percentage of your purchases to ASAT.

With AmazonSmile, you can have 0.5% of your Amazon purchases go to ASAT, and you don’t pay a cent extra. As the time of this article, we have 213 people already supporting us this way! If only 10% of the readers of this newsletter were to do this, Amazon would donate thousands of dollars to ASAT enabling us to continue our important work expanding our website offerings, gaining more subscribers, and printing and distributing flyers to parents and professionals alike.

If you are willing to help ASAT with its mission, please do the following quick steps now.

    1. Log into your Amazon account if you aren’t already.
    2. Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ch/13-4022546 and agree to set ASAT as your chosen charity. Now a percentage of your AmazonSmile purchases will support ASAT!
    3. Then click here to go to your AmazonSmile Impact page. Scroll to the bottom and follow the directions to either create an AmazonSmile bookmark or install Amazon Assistant.

If you shop using a web browser, just click on the AmazonSmile bookmark, go to smile.amazon.com instead of www.amazon.com or use the Amazon Assistant to make purchases as usual. It’s essential to use one of those methods, because Amazon doesn’t donate for purchases made at the standard amazon.com site.

Prefer shopping on your mobile device? After you’ve set it up, you may also shop at AmazonSmile with your smartphone! Just download the Amazon App from the App Store or Google Play. Open the menu, tap Settings, and then tap AmazonSmile. Then just follow the instructions in the app to turn it on.

Please take a moment to do this right now and remember to use smile.amazon.com for your shopping going forward! Your support will make a huge difference! Happy shopping!

Already signed up? We encourage you to ask others to do the same. To this end we offer you a sample Facebook post or email to get you started. Please feel free to adapt the social media post or the email invite as needed.

    • Sample Social Media Post:

Attention Amazon Shoppers: I have selected the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) as my AmazonSmile Charity and hope you might consider doing the same. There is no extra cost to you and signing up is very simple. Please use this link https://smile.amazon.com/ch/13-4022546 and then do your shopping at www.smile.amazon.com

ASAT provides information about best practices to individuals with autism, their families, and the professional community. Learn more about ASAT at www.asatonline.org

Please share with those who may be interested.

    • Sample Email:

Dear _______,

I wanted to let you know about an opportunity to support a small but important nonprofit that serves the autism community. I have selected the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) as my AmazonSmile Charity and hope you might consider doing the same. There is no extra cost to you and signing up for AmazonSmile is very simple and would take you just a few moments. Please click this link to sign up https://smile.amazon.com/ch/13-4022546 and then do your shopping at smile.amazon.com.

ASAT provides information about best practices to individuals with autism, their families, and the professional community. Learn more about ASAT at www.asatonline.org

Citation for this article:

Stoeckley, C., & McKenna, K. (2022). Keep smiling for science and ask others to do the same. Science in Autism Treatment ,19(5).

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