About Christian World Network

Founded in 2000, Christian World Network creates ways for churches, ministries, schools, organizations, groups, and Christian projects to receive funding through a unique and safe online merchant program that returns money to them from online purchases made through their CWN marketplace.

Shopping is an everyday activity. People spend time every day buying gifts, office supplies, music, food, making travel reservations, or buying clothes and school supplies for their children. Until now money spent on these everyday purchases went in one direction – away from the Christian community. Now Christian World Network has created a way for a percentage of that money to return to the community.

We have created a relationship with over 900 merchants across North America willing to give a percentage of every purchase made through their online stores back to the Christian community. More than half of the population of the United States is shopping online. It’s a fact. Now those people have the opportunity to choose to make their shopping into an act of support to help their Church, School, or other Christian organization. Online shopping is safe, easy, and one of the fastest growing ways people can support your organization.

CWN – The Vision of Change

Chairman and founder of Christian World Network, Jim Gould has spent his life involved with non-profit organizations. Making a difference and helping these organizations reach out and achieve their goals, has always been a challenge he welcomed. Jim reached a point in his life where he turned his attention towards ensuring that he could leave the world a better place. He studied how philanthropy is dispersed throughout the social and economic system and came to the conclusion that to do the greatest good, it has to be dispersed locally by groups who are already part of the community, who know the community and who are truly motivated to make a difference in their own community.

Looking through these groups in an attempt to understand them, Jim Gould came to the realization that the groups with the largest impact were Churches. They are the most in touch with their community needs and really know how to fulfill those needs effectively. True grass roots efforts with fewer administrative costs and the community helping the community. The Church also has the power to do this with regards to ethnic, cultural, and religious differences and can effectively provide help on a one-to-one basis.

The connection was clear. Through conversation and discovery, Jim found that the main source of money that the Churches were receiving was from collections. Jim knew there was another way he could help Churches get more money. “Wouldn’t it be nice if they could get help from the commercial sector?” Truly the commercial sector benefits from the good that the Church sector does – but there really should be a return benefit to the Church. And the Church should benefit from the activities of its membership interfacing with the commercial sector.

Christian World Network’s merchant program, in essence, completes the circle of finance, returning money to the church to make the world a better place.