Our mission
Lasting Change is a 501(c)(3) organization born from the idea that everyone should feel empowered to support the causes they care about. Our innovative mobile app makes charitable giving easy, accessible, and personal. With features like spare change roundups and donation history tracking, we’ve created a centralized hub for all of your donation needs--whether you’re a seasoned donor or are considering making a donation for the very first time.
Small change, big impact
We believe in the power of micro-giving. Each year, people generate an average of $390 in change leftover from their transactions. That's 390 trees reforested, a year of meals to feed the hungry, or school supplies for dozens of underserved classrooms.
Compassion Beyond the Checkout Counter
With Lasting Change, you can watch your own impact grow through our spare change feature, which automatically rounds up your everyday purchases to the nearest dollar to donate to the charities of your choosing.
Data-Driven Donations
Take the guesswork out of donating with our charity finder tool. View charitable commitment ratings and other data for thousands of non-profits to see where your dollars will go the farthest.
Increase Your Impact
Customize a portfolio of your favorite charities to receive your spare change donations, and track your giving history over time. Or, make one-time or recurring donations of any amount to give even more to the causes you care about.
Meet our team
Madison Gardiner
Board Secretary
Madison is a Harvard law graduate who completed 2 Federal Court clerk ships bringing legal and administrative experience to the team.
Michael Gardiner
Executive Director
Michael, founder of Lasting Change, is an experienced app developer driven by social impact. He has launched several apps to market over the past 7 years.
Melinda Dempsey
Board Chair
Melinda worked in financial services and the nonprofit industries for over 15 years and brings her leadership and fundraising experience to Lasting Change.
Frequently Asked Questions
Set up your spare change donations on the App in a few simple steps. From the Account page, link a depository bank account (for example, a checking account), which is the account Lasting Change will deduct donations from. You can then link a non-depository account (for example, a credit card) that you want to use to track spare change. Once your accounts are linked, you can search for non-profits on the App's Charities page. When you find one you want to receive your spare change, tap on the charity name and select Add to Portfolio. You can add up to 3 charities to your portfolio and can modify your selections at any time. You can choose to distribute funds evenly across your portfolio, or specify percentages for each one.
Once you complete the setup for spare change donations, Lasting Change will take each purchase transaction from linked accounts and round up the change to the nearest dollar. For example, if you use your linked car to buy a cup of coffee for $3.50, Lasting Change will withdraw the leftover 50 cents in change from your depository account and donate the change to the charity or charities in your portfolio.
A depository account is an account that Lasting Change can withdraw money from, such as a checking account. A non-depository account is an account that Lasting Change can’t withdraw money from but can be used to track transactions for auto-roundups.
Lasting Change doesn’t charge users’ credit cards. Linked credit cards are used only to track transactions to determine the amount of spare change generated from a purchase. Lasting Change then automatically withdraws that amount of change from your linked depository account.
There is a donation minimum for recurring and manual donations. The minimum for a recurring donation is $2 dollars per charity and the minimum for a manual donation is $5 dollars per charity. While there are no minimums for spare change roundups, Lasting Change will wait to withdraw funds from your depository account until your roundups total 50 cents or more.
Yes, you can set maximum limits for spare change donations from the App's Account page >> Manage Account.
You can request a tax receipt from the App's Account page >> Manage Account. Lasting Change will automatically provide users with a separate tax receipt for each manual or recurring donation of $250 dollars or more.
