The Child Literacy Site

The Literacy Site is a "click-to-give" site that provides and innovative, yet simple way to help children in need get a free book.

Sponsors of The Literacy Site pay for the funding of these books and non-profit organizations like First Book and Room to Read help with the distribution of books across the globe.

Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg own and operate the Literacy Site. They are co-owners of CharityUSA.com which is the parent company of the GreaterGood Network.

Through The Literacy Site, which was founded in 2004, millions of visitors have helped provide over 1.6 million books to children with their daily clicks, making a difference in children's lives.

GreaterGood.org distributes 100% of the funds received through clicks and donations directly to their partner charities. It is a charitable organization which devotes itself to helping people in need (especially women and children), abandoned animals and protecting the environment.

On average, over 80,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. To date, more than 87 million visitors have helped provide more than 1.6 million books to children who need them the most.

In 2008, visitor clicks funded 489,367 books for children in need, up from 307,568 in 2007. In addition to clicking the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button, visitors can help make books available by shopping in The Literacy Site store.

In case you have doubts that The Literacy Site is legitimate, you can visit the Wikipedia Site or contact their charitable partners directly:

- First Book
- Room to Read

Photo Credit (Top-Right): Pratham Books
Photo Credit (Bottom-Left): Pratham Books

Tim Kunin is an individual who has a deep interest in reaching out and helping the needy, especially children, women and abandoned animals. He has worked towards raising funds to help these causes in innovative ways.

He has traveled extensively to visit charity partners and purchase some of the fair-trade products available on the Hunger Site. He has been involved in protecting the environmental in many ways be it hiking, canoeing or walking for causes.

Travels have taken Tim to Canada, South America, Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Tim has purchased unique products in each of these places which can be purchased from the Hunger Site stores.

Greg Hesterberg ran a successful publishing firm, SGI Publications for two decades. During his college years, he was chairman of MaryPIRG and PIRGIM, consumer and environmental organizations. One of Greg's passions is finding innovative ways to make the world a better place.

Greg is co-owner of CharityUSA.com which is the parent company of the GreaterGood Network, a charitable organization which helps people in need, rescuing animals and protecting the environment. He adopted two sister kittens in 2007 named Callie and Chloe, as well as their younger brother, Casey.

Supporters visit the site and click everyday on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. These clicks are recorded by their servers and a Thank You page is displayed after each click displaying ads from their site sponsors.

You don't need to click on the ads and there is no cost to you. 100% of the ad revenue generated through clicks is directed to the Literacy site charitable partners. The more people click, the more books are provided.

All the clicks from supporters are tabulated and then site sponsors are billed accordingly for the appropriate amount. The Literacy Site then gives the funding to First Book and Room to Read, who distribute the free books to programs serving children in need.

Supporters can click once daily, every day of the year at the Literacy Site. An internal system is set up to monitor one click per supporter, per calendar day. If you click multiple times in one day, only one click will count.

There are different ways you can help as mentioned below:

- You can visit this lens daily and click on the above banner;
- You can link to The Literacy Site via Facebook or MySpace (see details below);
- You can visit The Literacy Site; and
- You can sign-up for a Daily Email Reminder to click daily.

Link to the Literacy Site
If you are on social networks, click on the links below to become a Fan. Together, we can spread the word on how to help children in need with each and every click.

Facebook: http://www.myspace.com/theliteracysite
My Space: http://www.facebook.com/TheLiteracySite

You can share this with others by using the free e-card program. While The Literacy Site encourages you to pass along the message of The Literacy Site, they respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages promoting The Literacy Site to people they do not know or post inappropriately to newsgroups or in other places.

Unsolicited email, or spam, will not help this cause, but will hurt it. Spam can alienate people who might otherwise visit The Literacy Site and help children in need get a free book.

The Literacy Site is one of sites in the growing GreaterGood Network of cause-related sites, which includes The Hunger Site, The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Healthcare Site, The Rainforest Site, and The Animal Rescue Site. Anyone with access to internet can make a real difference by visiting these "click-to-give" sites.

Each site is focused on a specific need and allows supporters to benefit leading charities with their simple clicks everyday. These simple actions help fund life-changing programs and initiatives for people in need through licensed non-profit organizations.

In case you want to help further support the above causes, click the banner below:

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Information Research Source: The Literacy Site
Updated: May 26, 2012