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Change the world with a click of your mouse with click to donate
I was a freshman in college when I first discovered that it was possible to click to donate for free. The Hunger Site was shiny and new and was the greatest new concept I'd ever heard of. I would click a button, see advertisements, and instantly make a difference. With one click, I could donate to hunger charities for free.
Since then, I have seen click to donate sites come and go, rise and fall in the storm that's been the Internet. As such, I've done my best to collect resources and sift through what's out there to show you only sites that are active, honest, and sustainable.
For more ways to help, please read my articles on Free and easy ways to help charities and More Ways to Help Charities.
Half of the proceeds of this lens, like all my lenses, go directly to the Grameen Foundation. If you appreciate this lens, please bookmark it, digg it, or vote for it on lensroll.com
Most of all though, bookmark this site and come back to click every day.
Photo courtesy Acagamic on flickr
Since then, I have seen click to donate sites come and go, rise and fall in the storm that's been the Internet. As such, I've done my best to collect resources and sift through what's out there to show you only sites that are active, honest, and sustainable.
For more ways to help, please read my articles on Free and easy ways to help charities and More Ways to Help Charities.
Half of the proceeds of this lens, like all my lenses, go directly to the Grameen Foundation. If you appreciate this lens, please bookmark it, digg it, or vote for it on lensroll.com
Most of all though, bookmark this site and come back to click every day.
Photo courtesy Acagamic on flickr
Top click to donate sites
Start here if you want to click to donate for free
The Hunger Site is a great place to start if you want to donate for free. The original click to donate site, The Hunger Site was started by a college student who wanted to harness the power of the Internet to make a difference in the world. It quickly became too much for him, though, and was taken over by a management company. It is now run by Greater Good.org, and independent charitable organization, but all of the proceeds still go to food charities, as was originally intended. It is now expanded to include The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Health Site, The Rainforest Site, The Literacy Site, and The Child Health Site.
Care2.com
Another great portal for clicking to donate, this began with the Race for the Rainforest and now includes click sites for Baby Seals, Global Warming, Ocean Life, Breast Cancer, Children in Need, Pets in Need, Big Cats, and Violence against women. It's also a part of a large resource of information on how to make environmental changes, including a daily action site and a database of petitions.
Care2 now has a program where you can accumulate points for your actions on the site and use those points to buy additional donations - everything from carbon offsets to mosquito nets to prevent malaria.
Click to donate for free to hunger charities
These sites allow you to donate to hunger or poverty related charities with just one click.
- Hunger Fighters
- A little sketchy as to details, but seems to donate "A Cup of food" per click to Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest).
- The Hunger Site
- The original way to click to donate for free. See description above.
- Por Los Chicos
- A click to donate site for hunger charities in Argentina. I don't speak Portugese. Help?
- Children In Need
- Care2's site that sponsors children every month. See above for more on Care2.
- Feed India
- Donate staple food to people in India.
Click to donate for free to environmental charities
These sites allow you to donate to charities that protect animals, habitats, and the environment in general.
- The Environment Site
- Donates to the Surrey Wildlife Trust
- The Ecology Fund
- Allows you to click to save several different forests, as well as to prevent climate change.
- Red Jellyfish
- Click the buttons daily to save rainforest and to feed chimps.
- Land Care Niagara
- Every 5 clicks plants a tree to restore the Niagara corridor in Ontario.
- Oaks of the World
- Click donations plant trees through Oaks of the World. Site is a little thin on details.
- Clean your Country
- Click donations raise money to help clean up "waste." Several organizations listed on the main page.
- Stop Global Warming
- Care2's global warming page. See above.
- Race for the Rainforest
- Care2's rainforest page. Actually gives a choice among three habitats. See above.
- The Solar Site
- Your clicks support solar energy through organizations like Self and Fondem.
Donate for free by playing games
Probably the hottest free donation site on the web right now, Free Rice lets you donate rice to the UN World Food Program by answering vocabulary questions. 3000 grains of rice a day is enough to feed a hungry adult.
I've recently found two similar sites that let you donate for free by playing games. The first is Save the World with Music, which lets you answer music trivia questions to donate to Play Pumps International. Play Pumps installs wells in African villages to help provide clean water to people in extreme poverty. The coolest thing is that these well pumps are powered by children's merry-go-rounds. Each correct music trivia question donates one day of clean water.
The second is Free poverty, a geography game which also donates clean water to poor villages. The website doesn't have information on what charity it donates to, but I'm in the process of trying to get that information.
A new game! Memorize strings of numbers and Help Thirst will donate a cup of water to World Vison.
Click to donate for free to health charities
These sites allow you to donate for free for a variety of health and medical causes.
- Give a Minute
- Click to donate one minute of hospital time to the Tarahuma Children's hospital in Creel, Mexico.
- I fight Cancer
- Click to donate to cancer research. Funds will be earmarked for research only.
- The Stop HIV site
- Click to donate to AIDS research and care. No information as to what organization receives funds.
Give books for free
Read books to give books
Every time you read one of the fabulous children's books on this site, Pearson will donate a book to a charity of your choice. What a wonderful innovation! Donate for free by signing up
Join my village lets you choose a village in Malawi to support by watching videos and recruiting friends.
Search to donate for free
- Search Kindly
- Search Kindly uses google's search engine, but donates a portion of the profits to charity. Monthly polls determine whigh charities get the money. SearchKindly can even be added to your browser's search bar so that it's just as easy as using google.
- Good Search
- Good Search uses a yahoo search engine. You can choose which charity to donate to with each search.
- Ripple
- Ripple also uses the google search engine and donates to specific charities: Oxfam, Oaktree, Wateraid, and the Grameen foundation.
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advancejunk
Dec 14, 2011 @ 12:08 pm | delete
- I like this. Easy to donate!
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Mamaboo
Nov 21, 2011 @ 3:47 pm | delete
- I'm really fascinated by this concept. I never knew it existed! Thank You for doing a lens on it and be blessed!!!
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seeker2011
Sep 19, 2011 @ 12:22 am | delete
- Think I will bookmark the lense so that I can 'click' a few each day. Nice lense.
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josephh17 Sep 16, 2011 @ 10:17 am | delete
- Great lens. I am so happy to see these charities being promoted more on the internet. I have a great cause where we donate a tree in your name just for joining my newsletter plus refer friends and get a tree donated in their name. Here is the lens
http://squidoo.com/plant-a-tree-for-free-today
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cffutah
Sep 12, 2011 @ 8:18 pm | delete
- enjoyed reading your lens. if you can, leave me some comments on my lens, my lens is about media awareness to cystic fibrosis and how people get this genetic disease. I've got a poll you can take too! Would love your participation.
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