Feel Good

I always love coming across other websites whose chief aim is to uplift which is why I am elated to have found JustCause .

The stated mission of Just Cause is to:

“shine a bright light on individuals, corporations and the change agents who are working for the greater good.”

Read further and you see a picture forming of a shared commitment to:

charity and community
making a difference
inspiring impassioned action

JustCause accomplishes this in many ways, including:

• a national print magazine
• an interactive online community site
• a community events board
• and, from the impression I’m getting, whatever else participants like you and I make it

A pleasurable and enlightening highlight of the JustCause site is its several blogs on an impressive variety of themes:

• Arts
• Civic
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• International

But for those who want to do more than just read, those who are ready to take action, JustCause hosts what it aptly calls “Causes”.

These are groups of JustCause members who come together to work on a common goal for positive change in some arena – geographical, medical, artistic, educational, environmental, political…

Causes get their own events board and blog and are highlighted prominently throughout the site.

Next to that, my next observation might seem incidental, but on the contrary I think it can’t be overstated: the JustCause site is clean and attractive and very well put together.

If you browse the web as frequently as I do (and you very well might) then you know exactly what I’m talking about when I say that many an ingenious concept went to waste due to lousy web design.

The JustCause site is as pristine and humble as its mission.

Currently still in “beta” mode, in my opinion JustCause has the potential to become the seminal web 2.0 community for charitable work.

And I, for one, want to be a part of it. So of course, I just joined.

Take Note:

the URL for JustCause is JustCauseIt.com

Remember that “it” at the end

or you’ll wind up somewhere else

Best idea: Click the above link and Bookmark the page right away!

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:

1. Make one of these sites your homepage and click on it every day
2. Better yet, bookmark this post or make it your homepage and click one by one on each of them every day
3. Link to these sites from your own website
4. 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.