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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 Action Against Hunger. 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.
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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 Action Against Hunger. 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.
Click to donate for free to hunger charities
These sites allow you to donate to hunger or poverty related charities with just one click.
- Share a little comfort
- For a limited time, Kraft will donate one box of mac and cheese to Feeding America for everyone who clicks on this site.
- 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?
- Poverty Fighters
- Donates to microlending projects throughout the world with the goal of eliminating world hunger. Really neat page that lets you click twice daily and read stories about loan recipients.
- Children In Need
- Care2's site that sponsors children every month. See above for more on Care2.
- Small things challenge
- When you click the donate button, Intel will donate 25 cents to Save the Children and Kiva.
- Youthnoise
- Helping a different charity every month, Youth Noise is currently supporting a youth soccer program for underpriviledged kids called "Play City."
- 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.
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.
Donate for free with Save the planet and Win
Sign up at Save the Planet and Win and click the buttons for free carbon offsets. You can read about the various programs they donate to. Donate for free with your social profiles
I recently discovered a whole category of facebook applications that allow you to donate for free simply by placing them on your site. While I haven't used all these (not a facebook kind of girl), please check them out and leave me some feedback.
Save Rainforest
Lil Green Patch (Nature Conservancy)
Give Rice
More rice
Green Pages (Carbon offsetting)
Save Rainforest
Lil Green Patch (Nature Conservancy)
Give Rice
More rice
Green Pages (Carbon offsetting)
Books on changing the world
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
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Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time
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Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House
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qlcoach wrote...
Very heart-warming lens. I enjoyed reading it and I was unware of these excellent resources to help charities. I met you on Squidom. Hope you will consider visiting my new lens about emotional healing. Gary Eby, author and therapist.
Posted June 11, 2009
soha89 wrote...
great job...plz feel free to visit my lens and feed a child or plant a tree :)
www.squidoo.com/bluespace/
Posted June 06, 2009
Lensmaster
kreal
You can also add www.cleanbreath.org and www.chintai.net/contribution/
Chintai is a japanese website. Thats why i am giving the direct link :)
Posted May 31, 2009
Steve_Meritt wrote...
While some talk about how to buy anabolic steroids, you make a difference with this lens, talking about important things. Well done.
Posted April 28, 2009
by story3girl
Melissa is a teacher and a writer interested in living more fully for less money. She maintains a blog at http://storiedmoney.blogspot.com
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