Free Donations

The Internet has made it easy for everyone to help support a good cause. Even if your monthly budget is strapped and you don't have extra cash to donate to your favorite charity, you can make a difference simply by visiting the sites below and clicking on the free donation buttons. It costs you nothing, won't lead to spam or anything nefarious, and takes only a few minutes every day.

You simply click to donate. That's it. Your click is then translated into good deeds - food for the hungry, carbon offsets, free mammograms to detect breast cancer, rainforest protection or more - and advertisers foot the bill. What could be easier? So bookmark these sites today and start clicking for a better world.

The Hunger Site is the original click-to-donate site. It was started by John Breen, a computer programmer from Bloomington, Indiana, in June of 1999. Originally a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the site became popular rapidly. Faced with increasing costs, Breen sold the site to GreaterGood, "a Seattle-based online shopping mall that gave part of its sales to charity" for an undisclosed amount in February 2000. In July 2001, following the dot-com bubble crash, GreaterGood ceased operations after losing $26 million dollars in venture capital. In 2001, CharityUSA.com, LLC, a privately held, for-profit charity based in Seattle assumed control of the company for $1 million dollars.

In early 2007, Tim Kunin, CEO and co-owner of TheHungerSite, announced that the site had, since its inception, donated the equivalent of more than 500 million cups of staple food. The charities supported by The Hunger Site have praised it both for the funds that it raises from sponsors and for the traffic it brings to their own sites.

Now when you visit The Hunger Site, you'll also find a selection of other click-to-donate options to save the rainforest, support breast cancer research, and more.

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When you visit The Hunger Site, you'll also see a number of tabs that allow you to make more free donations easily. These are the other click-to-donate sites linked to The Hunger Site.

The Breast Cancer Site

The Child Health Site

The Literacy Site

The Rainforest Site

The Animal Rescue Site

Care2.com offers a variety of free click-to-donate options. Visit every day to make free donations to offset carbon emissions, help stop violence against women, help protect endangered species, or do other good deeds. The choice is yours. Just pick a link below and go.

Race to Stop Global Warming

Race for the Rain Forest

Race to Save the Baby Seals

Race to Save the Baby Seals

Race for the Big Cats

Race for the Primates

Race for Children!

Race for Pets

Race to Stop Violence Against Women

Climb to End Breast Cancer

Started in October 2007, this site challenges you to pick one of four synonyms for words that get increasingly more difficult. For each word you get right, the site donates the equivalent of 10 grains of rice. Like The Hunger Site, FreeRice.com is able to make the donations due to advertising revenue, so the cost to you is completely free.

Red Jellyfish is a site for environmentally minded Web surfers. In addition to environmental news, free e-cards and , they also have a free donation center. Simply click each day to save 5.25 square feet of rainforest or give food to an orphaned chimp. You can donate even more (for free!) if you sign up for their Internet service. For each user, Red Jellyfish donates enough money to save 6000 square feet of rainforest in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Get your clicking finger ready. At EcologyFund, you can save 70 sq. ft. of South American rainforest, offset four pounds of pollution, and protect wilderness and endangered species. Of course, all it takes is a few moments and a few mouse clicks. Donations are paid for by advertisers.

Who's your favorite football team? During football season, you can click to vote for your favorite team at Chunky's Click for Cans and Campbell's will donate soup to a food bank of the winning team's choice.

During the 2007 holiday season, Pepsi shared the spirit of the season by pledging to donate up to $50,000 to Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network for each virtual snowglobe created at Pepsi Snow Globe.com. Users were able to upload a photo, add in a few optional Christmas elements, and then shake the globe to watch it snow!

Check back here to see if Pepsi continues the snow globe program in 2008.

100% of the proceeds from this lens are donated to Heifer International. Visit Heifer International to learn more about their work and how they're providing gifts that keep giving to poor people around the world.