# Are charity malls a cause for concern?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/03/30/are-charity-malls-cause-concern/
- Published: 1999-03-30T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

There are an ever-growing number of Web shopping malls that offer to donate a percentage
of purchase price or profits of sales to charity. 
There are an ever-growing number
of Web shopping malls that offer to donate a percentage of purchase price or profits
of sales to charity. But there are concerns that they are unregulated and might 
not be handing over money owed to charities.

Read Reed Abelson’s Electronic Fine Print is Limiting Charity in today’s New York
Times.

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 * **[Comic Relief is Internet magazine's Site of the Month](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/04/01/comic-relief-internet-magazine039s-site-month/)**(
   1 April 1999)
 * **[US online fundraising programmes queried](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/04/03/us-online-fundraising-programmes-queried/)**(
   3 April 1999)
 * **[Ethical guidelines](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/04/04/ethical-guidelines/)**(
   4 April 1999)