Causes

What Causes is

Causes is a free service for social advocacy and charitable giving, available on Android, iOS, and the web. It offers short summaries and daily updates about news, issues, and trending Causes. Users can support community-driven campaigns or rally their own communities around them. Posts feature pinned nonprofits that users can learn about and donate to in the app, and the service also includes donations from purchases at participating brands. Causes says its mission is to encourage engagement and giving through articles, expert opinions, conversations, and ways to give. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The service lists basic moderation tools and native mobile apps. Causes may collect account, device, browsing, location, and cookie information, and may share information with service providers and transaction vendors such as Stripe. It says it uses measures to protect personal information but cannot guarantee the security of information sent over the internet. Its services are not intended for children under 16.