Nov 15 2008
The Easiest Way to Make Charitable Donations Without Spending Money
I don’t think anyone needs to be convinced that giving to charity feels good. But a lot of good that does us when we don’t have any money to give.
Fortunately, there’s is an unbelievably easy way to make charitable donations that won’t cost you a dime. And I’m not talking about volunteering. This isn’t a piece about giving of your time. It’s about giving away other people’s cold hard cash!
It all started in June of 1999 with The Hunger Site, a brilliant system in which advertisers would pay a certain amount of money or donate a certain amount food every time someone clicked on the button on The Hunger Site Homepage.
Best of all, people could click every day, once a day, and keep those donations coming. Since it first launched, The Hunger Site and its over 200 million visitors have donated over 300 million cups of staple food (like rice and such) to poverty-stricken communities around the world through Mercy Corps and Feeding America (formerly America’s Second Harvest). Today over 22,000 people visit the site and click the donation button every day.
The Hunger Site was so successful that it soon fostered similar sites to support other charities.
The Breast Cancer Site
giving away: free mammograms
The Child Health Site
giving away: free child health care
The Literacy Site
giving away: free books to children
The Rainforest Site
helping to: protect the rainforests
The Animal Rescue Site
giving away: free food to rescued animals
There are so many ways you can use these sites to help support causes you care about without having to give up anything more than a mouse click, including:
- Make one of these sites your homepage and click on it every day
- Better yet, bookmark this post or make it your homepage and click one by one on each of them every day
- Link to these sites from your own website
- Forward this posting or use one of the aforementioned site’s easy tool to send emails to friend letting them know about this free and easy way to give.
And here’s one more thing you can feel good about. All of these sites promise that:
100% of sponsor money goes to charity.
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