Philanthropy management apparatus, system, and methods of use and doing business

Abstract

A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitable projects and provides remote users and others with management tools for inputting information about charitable projects, pre-approving or otherwise assessing them, and accessing and managing charitable project information, portfolios, user team member information and access. The system can provide a business based on, for example, providing system, access, charitable fund management, and charitable donation transaction fees.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A charitable donation management system of the type accessible by a plurality of remote users through a communications network, the charitable donation management system comprising in combination:
 A. at least one server computing system in communication with said communications network;   B. one or more charitable project databases mounted on the server computing system, the one or more charitable project databases including the identity of a plurality of pre-approved charitable projects, financial information about said plurality of pre-approved charitable projects, and project objective information about said plurality of pre-approved charitable projects; and   C. a charitable project data server system mounted on the server computing system in communication with the one or more charitable project databases and the communications network.   
     
     
         2 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the communications network includes the Internet. 
     
     
         3 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the communications network includes a local area network. 
     
     
         4 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the communications network includes a wide area network. 
     
     
         5 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the charitable project data server system is browser based. 
     
     
         6 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 2  wherein the server computing system comprises a web-server. 
     
     
         7 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 2  wherein the one or more charitable project databases include remote user team information. 
     
     
         8 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 3  wherein the one or more charitable project databases include pre-approved remote user login information. 
     
     
         9 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the one or more charitable project databases include fee information. 
     
     
         10 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 9  wherein the fee information includes information about at least one of: a fee charged periodically; a fee charged on a transactional basis, a fee charged based on amount of time spent using the charitable project management system, a fee charged for conducting a charitable project assessment; or a fee charged for conducting a charitable organization assessment. 
     
     
         11 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the one or more charitable project databases includes project goals for at least one project. 
     
     
         12 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the one or more charitable project databases includes a website URL for at least one project. 
     
     
         13 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein financial information about said plurality of pre-approved charitable projects comprises at least one of: total budget for at least one project; matching grant information for at least one project; total annual expenses for at least on project; or expense breakdown for at least on project. 
     
     
         14 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein project objective information about said plurality of pre-approved charitable projects comprises at least one of: economic development information for at least on project, infrastructure development information for at least on project, social development information for at least on project, or spiritual development information for at least on project. 
     
     
         15 . The charitable project donation management system of  claim 1  wherein the one or more charitable project databases mounted on the server computing system further comprise, for at least one project, approval information.