Earn frequent flyer miles and hotel points for your charitable donations

There are some great offers out there to get rewarded for your generosity to charities. Several of the airlines and hotels are currently offering bonus points for your charitable contributions. Here is a run down of the current offers:

American Airlines
* Offer valid on contributions made online at http://american.redcross.org/americanairlines-pub

** Minimum donation of $50 required in order to earn bonus miles* Members can earn a one-time bonus up to 500 miles* Promotion dates are January 14 through February 28, 2010* Donation receipts from the American Red Cross forwarded to ReliefMiles@aa.com. Miles will post to the member’s AAdvantage account approximately 14 days after the receipts are received. Please check your AAdvantage account on aa.com to verify the award.* The name on the donation receipt must match the name on the AAdvantage account.* You must be an AAdvantage member to receive the bonus miles.* Bonus miles do not count toward elite-status qualification.* American Airlines reserves the right to change the AAdvantage program at any time without notice.* American Airlines is not responsible for products or services offered by other participating companies.* For complete details about the AAdvantage program, visit www.aa.com/aadvantage* The American Red Cross name and emblem are used with its permission, which in no way constitutes an endorsement, express or implied, of any product, service, company, opinion or political position.* For more information about the Red Cross, please visit http://www.redcross.org/

Delta Airlines
5000 Skymiles for a minimum donation of $100 to the Martin Luther King Jr National Memorial Fund.

Spirit Airlines
A $5 donation equals 5000 Spirit Airlines miles.

Marriott Hotels
18,000 Marriott Hotel points for a $50 donation to the Red Cross.

Point donations
Starwood will match your donation of your own Starwood points to the Red Cross. A 4000 Starwood point donation equals $50.

United Airlines
You can donate United miles here to Haiti.

Hilton Hotels
You can donate Hilton points here.

3 month CLEAR membership for free for SPG members

You can sign up for Starwood at the link on the right. Once you’ve done that, and if you’re going to be travelling soon, sign up for a 3 month CLEAR membership for free by simply entering in your Starwood number.

It will be set to auto-renew, by once you get approved, you can turn it off. In the fine print it says “Your Clear Account is set by default to auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renew at any time by logging into your Clear account at flyclear.com/myaccount and changing the autorenewal setting in “My Profile”.”
Here are the airports where CLEAR is set up so you can bypass security.
Here are the full terms and conditions.
SPG® has partnered with Clear® to provide you with this complimentary three-month trial membership in their convenient “fast pass through airport security” service.

Now you can experience two new options designed to simplify your air travel. 1. SPG Flights (SPG.com/flights) takes the restrictions out of airline redemption, allowing you to redeem Starpoints to fly on more than 350 airlines — all with no blackout dates. 2. Clear® offers travelers a fast and secure way to bypass long security lines at many major airports.

This complimentary three-month Clear® trial membership offer expires February 28, 2009. You can cancel anytime during the three-month trial, but if you’re pleased you’ll be renewed automatically for a one-year membership at $199. To learn more about Clear®, please visit www.flyclear.com.

Starwood Status for CPAs

For those of you that are CPAS, here’s a link to sign up for Starwood Hotels program. You can also get upgraded if you have an existing account with Starwood.

Here are some of the benefits:

AICPA’s partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, offers you a free membership in the Corporate Preferred level of the Starwood Preferred Guest® program, including these benefits:

2 Starpoints® for every eligible U.S. dollar spent at participating hotels — redeemable for Free Night Awards, award flights and more.

No blackout dates on Free Night Awards, so if we have a standard room on the date of your choice, it’s yours.

Upgrades to an enhanced room upon check-in.1

4 p.m. late checkout.2

An exclusive 50%-off award certificate after your second stay to enjoy 50% off RACK rates on a future stay.

Register using the form today for a 500 starpoint bonus after your next stay within 3 months.

2009 hotel bonuses

Here are some great hotel bonuses for the upcoming year.

Marriott is offering 2500 extra points after your first stay between February 1 and April 30, 2009. The maximum you can earn is 25,000 points on this promotion. Make sure your earning preferences are set to Marriott points.

Hilton has double points between January 6 and April 6 at these hotels

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Priority Club is giving 3000 bonus points for every third night, up to 30,000 points between January 12 and April 30.

Starwood has 500 bonus points for each qualifying night, plus 5000 additional for every 10th night between January 7 and April 30.