Sign up to be a Squidoo Charity!

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Last updated: 01/22/2012

Squidoo was designed to help you raise money (awareness too) for a worthy cause.

Squidoo is a free web platform that makes it easy for you (or your donors or anyone who supports your cause) to earn attention, day after day, by building useful, interesting, personalized web pages. We've found that attention also leads to you earning money. In this case, donations for your cause. In fact, Squidoo has donated nearly a million dollars to charity.

And it works.

Most recently, in December 2011, we donated $50,000 to the Acumen Fund for the holidays.

To celebrate our 5 year anniversary in 2010, we gave $275,000 to charity in one big splash. That felt great.

In fact, month in and month out, we make donations to any one of 100 different nonprofit organizations. For free.

This page will explain how we're able to do this, and how you're able to take part as a supported nonprofit on Squidoo. Nonprofit organizations can sign up to get supported by Squidoo and receive free donations. Our current Squidoo-supported nonprofits include (there are hundreds!): Acumen Fund, ASPCA, Children's Defense Fund, Covenant House, DonorsChoose, Earthjustice, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF), KIVA, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, March of Dimes, Oxfam America, Polly Klaas Foundation, Room to Read, Save the Children and tons more.
Important!

THE POWER OF THOUSANDS

"Thanks to contributed royalties from thousands of lensmasters, Room to Read has built a computer room for kids in Kheri Kalan, an industrial town in India. We hope to help these kids to break the cycle of poverty through the lifelong gift of education. Thank you for helping us to create a brighter future through education." - John Wood, Room to Read

How Squidoo works for a nonprofit

Nuts and bolts first

You use our tools, for free, to build a page like this one. It can include links to websites, to Amazon books, to eBay auctions, to Google maps, to whatever topic you're most interested in. You can post pictures and articles and links to your cause. It's the perfect tool for storytelling. For both you and your supporters and volunteers.

Every time someone clicks on an ad, every time someone buys a book, every time someone wins an auction, every time someone buys anything at all from Amazon, Squidoo gets paid.

And then we pay half of that--no deductions, no hassles, no fees--to your charity directly by PayPal.

If a Squidoo page (we call it a "lens") sells a copy of Harry Potter, that's about 40 cents. Not much. Unless you have 100 different lenses, each selling a few books a day. Unless you have 250 donors each building and maintaining a few dozen pages each, for free.

In fact, Squidoo has donated nearly a million dollars to charity.

If this is something your organization would like to get involved in, signing up here (right here, right on this page, keep reading!) as a partner charity is the first step towards getting more recognition, more passionate volunteers, and more money. This page will tell you all about the easy application process.

We can't wait to hear from you!

At this time, for tax and legal reasons, we can only accept US-based organizations that specifically have a 501(c)(3). We can only accept applications from a charity official, not a volunteer wishing to collect on their behalf.

While you wait...

While you're waiting to see if your application was accepted, or if you just want to do a little extra research and reading, here are some great lenses to tell you more.
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Important!

Squidoo Works

"It's a joy to us that people find Squidoo a good way to tell their stories. Looking through the lenses, I felt like I was hearing voices that we'd never heard before -- so many new stories. Squidoo unlocked them." - Glena Records, Polly Klaas Foundation

Awesome Partner Charity Profiles

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    capo2012 Feb 12, 2012 @ 6:32 am | delete
    Thanks, great lens.Chicago home remodeling
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    anupma Feb 11, 2012 @ 12:43 pm | delete
    We must contribute in charity. Awesome and informative lense
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    anakcacat84 Feb 6, 2012 @ 6:05 pm | delete
    morning all
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    anakcacat84 Feb 6, 2012 @ 6:05 pm | delete
    morning all
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    imarketpros Feb 6, 2012 @ 3:46 pm | delete
    You only receive what you give... Great. I think charities deserve more from the legal world, as they have the hardest time getting probono help.
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    imarketpros Feb 6, 2012 @ 3:45 pm | delete
    You only receive what you give... Great. I think charities deserve more from the legal world, as they have the hardest time getting probono help.
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    GreatBooksToRead Feb 4, 2012 @ 9:30 am | delete
    Bless your hearts!
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    Iain84 Feb 3, 2012 @ 5:10 pm | delete
    Excellent lens - keep up the good work!
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    MyNameNeni Feb 3, 2012 @ 12:06 pm | delete
    how squidoo work , if i want up traffic lens
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    MyNameNeni Feb 3, 2012 @ 12:04 pm | delete
    how to can royalties from amazon if i'm not understand marketing brand
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    IshlyMarieMarrs Jan 31, 2012 @ 11:11 pm | delete
    Greetings... My name is Amber.. I am contact anyone who can help me with my companion her name is Ishly, she has three pups. I had just gotten the horrable news that my girl (Ishly) has just come done with this deadly infection called ... {PYOMETRA} My girl is mearly 2 years of age and has three puppies.. Two girls and one boy.. They were born on January sixth two thousand twelve.. Just after midnight.. I am on a fixed income I mearly get $830.00 a month and the vets want about $1500 to $2500 to save her life.. My rent is $600 a month and after food for Ish and her pups I hardly have enouph money to pay for food for myself... Much less than $1500... So I am here BEGGINGING someone PLEASE HELP... I just hope that I dont loose the only living bing in my life that has been there for me through so much.. I love my Ishly Marie! and I PRAY TO WHATEVER GOD THERE IS! !! PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY GIRL!... DON'T TAKE ISHLY FROM ME.. Q_Q T.T....... It is very hard to know that Iam loosing the one and only living bing on this god forsaken earth that would give there very life to be by my side.. Ishly is my best friend.., My daughter..., My companion.. The one that listens.. The one that would have done all in her power to be there for me... and I am failing to be there for her!. Q_Q I hate myself for not having the money to save her.. -_- I don't deserve her.. I wish I could save her.. I wish I could trade places with her.. Let me be the one to die.. NOT HER!!

    Sorry for taking your time.. ALL I CAN SAY IS !!!! pray !!!!!
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    IshlyMarieMarrs Jan 31, 2012 @ 11:16 pm | delete
    please forgive my mis-spells and grammer problems... -.- I am extreamly heart broken at the moment and can't seem to be able to hold my tears back and it makes it hard to see the keys...
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    IshlyMarieMarrs Jan 31, 2012 @ 11:11 pm | delete
    Greetings... My name is Amber.. I am contact anyone who can help me with my companion her name is Ishly, she has three pups. I had just gotten the horrable news that my girl (Ishly) has just come done with this deadly infection called ... {PYOMETRA} My girl is mearly 2 years of age and has three puppies.. Two girls and one boy.. They were born on January sixth two thousand twelve.. Just after midnight.. I am on a fixed income I mearly get $830.00 a month and the vets want about $1500 to $2500 to save her life.. My rent is $600 a month and after food for Ish and her pups I hardly have enouph money to pay for food for myself... Much less than $1500... So I am here BEGGINGING someone PLEASE HELP... I just hope that I dont loose the only living bing in my life that has been there for me through so much.. I love my Ishly Marie! and I PRAY TO WHATEVER GOD THERE IS! !! PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY GIRL!... DON'T TAKE ISHLY FROM ME.. Q_Q T.T....... It is very hard to know that Iam loosing the one and only living bing on this god forsaken earth that would give there very life to be by my side.. Ishly is my best friend.., My daughter..., My companion.. The one that listens.. The one that would have done all in her power to be there for me... and I am failing to be there for her!. Q_Q I hate myself for not having the money to save her.. -_- I don't deserve her.. I wish I could save her.. I wish I could trade places with her.. Let me be the one to die.. NOT HER!!

    Sorry for taking your time.. ALL I CAN SAY IS !!!! pray !!!!!
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    Pangionedevelopers Jan 30, 2012 @ 10:51 am | delete
    great info here .....ill be digging in deeper
    thanks
    David P
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    gonzalezdenise Jan 22, 2012 @ 9:25 am | delete
    Thanks, great lens.
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    gonzalezdenise Jan 22, 2012 @ 9:25 am | delete
    Thanks, great lens.
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    ernad18 Jan 20, 2012 @ 2:58 pm | delete
    great. interest.
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    XxSadieLadyxX Jan 17, 2012 @ 12:31 am | delete
    Good information
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    Bhagya6Rekha Jan 14, 2012 @ 2:32 am | delete
    Dear,

    November 2011 payout have been given on 12 january 2012. and today is 14 jan. and yet I haven't found any balance in my pay day details. surprisingly when I checked my october 2011 pay day details are also showing $0. all details are showing 0, where as $50,000 that I earned in october 2011 were donated to Acumen Fund. but dear, this time I want to draw my payment of November 2011 for using the amount to record&release DVD of my own written songs on Lord Jesus. for this purpose I started squidoo lenses. so please don't draw this money for any charity, I need to record DVD's and take ahead my lord's work. please transfer my payments in to my paypal account.

    Thanks,
    Rekha from INDIA.
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    KimGiancaterino Jan 5, 2012 @ 11:03 pm | delete
    Very good news!
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    SheilaSchnauzies Dec 31, 2011 @ 4:39 am | delete
    If my nonprofit corporation is in the process of filing for 501(c)(3), could we still apply here? Or does it have to be finalized before one can apply? Thanks!

    I am very proud to be part of such an amazing organization, which is so very giving! Thanks for being here, Squidoo!
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    kathysart Dec 29, 2011 @ 1:09 pm | delete
    No questions just appreciation.
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    ladyinfinity Dec 29, 2011 @ 5:05 am | delete
    This is so awesome to be able to give to something worthy and also help myself make money too. Thanks Squidoo!!
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    joebarcala Jan 26, 2012 @ 6:55 pm | delete
    I don´t understad things in squiddo, if you could help me? My english isn´t too good, please use simple words... bye
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    Jeimuzu-san Dec 25, 2011 @ 9:22 pm | delete
    Sharing is caring :)
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