Free Ways to Help the World Using Your Computer

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Free Ways to Help the World Using Your Computer

Do you want to help make a difference in the world but don't have the time to volunteer, or the extra money to donate? You can still help. You can donate the idle time when you aren't using your computer to help fight AIDs, cancer, and more. You can click on buttons that only take a few minutes out of your day, and by doing so help feed the hungry, feed animals in shelters, help pay for mammograms for low income woman, and much more. You can also use search engines that donate part or all of their profits to worthy causes.
Check out the sites I've listed below and start helping to make the world a better place.
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Donate Your Computer's Idle Time

Help fight cancer, AIDS, and more

World Community Grid

This is the one I use. I have it set to run after my computer is idle for 3 minutes. I also have it set as my screen saver.
World Community Grid - Home
Donate the time your computer is turned on, but is idle, to projects that benefit humanity. You can help conquer cancer, identify candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease, help uncover novel drugs to cure dengue hemorrhagic fever, hepatitis C, West Nile encephalitis, and Yellow fever, or help with other worthy projects.

Evolution@home

evolution@home and evolutionary-research
This project aims to understand evolution and its importance for our society. Through computing power, they test evolution models to better understand topics like the impact of man on this planet, the extinction of species, the evolution of pathogenic bacteria and the meaning of genomic sequences.

Spinhenge@home

Spinhenge@home
You can help research nanomagnetic molecules, which in the future may be used in local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules.

Nano Hive

NanoHive@Home
The goal of NanoHive@Home is to perform large-scale nanosystems simulation and analysis that is otherwise too intensive to be calculated via normal means, and thereby enable further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology.

Do Computing Grids Really Help?

Here is an example of what can be accomplished with community grids:
Cutting-edge Computing Helps Discover Origin Of Life On Earth
Computing grids have helped scientists shed light on how life on earth may have originated. Deep ocean hydrothermal vents have long been suggested as possible sources of biological molecules such as RNA and DNA but it was unclear how they could survive the high temperatures and pressures that occur round these vents.

Books On Making A Difference

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Click The Button

Spend a few minutes a day clicking on buttons to help animals, feed the hungry, save the forests, and more.

The Animal Rescue Site

Each click on the purple "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button at The Animal Rescue Site provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at the Fund for Animals' renowned animal sanctuaries (including Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in California), pet shelters supported by the Petfinder Foundation, North Shore Animal League, and other worthy animal care facilities supported by the GreaterGood.org foundation.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to their charitable partners.

The Animal Rescue Site

The Hunger Site

The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need: the eradication of world hunger. Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. To date, more than 300 million visitors have given more than 500 million cups of staple food.

The Hunger Site

Free Rice

Help give rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game.

Help end world hunger

The Breast Cancer Site

Your click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button helps fund free mammograms for women in need - low-income, inner-city and minority women whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited. Your click is paid for by site sponsors, and mammogram funding is provided to clinics throughout the U.S. through the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

The Breast Cancer Site

The Child Health Site

The Child Health Site is dedicated to funding simple and very effective preventatives and treatments with the goal of robust child health around the globe. Your daily click funds the administration of Vitamin A to prevent life-threatening childhood illness and disease as well as one preventable cause of childhood blindness; the manufacture and fitting of children's prostheses so that a child injured by a landmine or other accident can still walk, run and play and still has a fighting chance to be a productive contributor in his or her society as an adult; eye surgeries that can reverse one kind of childhood blindness; and HIV testing that will alert medical personnel that a mother may pass the infection onto her child at birth so that she can be treated and the newborn spared of this terrible disease. When you click, once per day, every day, you are helping to get these types of treatments and services to the children who need them most.

The Child Health Site

The Literacy Site

Visitors help provide free books to children in need. The distribution of these books are paid for by our site sponsors and accomplished through our charitable partners, First Book and Room to Read.
To date, more than 87 million visitors have helped provide more than 1.6 million books to children who need them the most.

The Literacy Site

The Rainforest Site

The Rainforest Site is dedicated to the preservation of rainforests around the world. Your daily click funds the purchase of rainforest land by The Nature Conservancy, The Rainforest Conservation Fund, The World Parks Endowment, and Rainforest2Reef. These organizations work to preserve rainforest land in Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and other locations worldwide.

The Rainforest Site

EcologyFund

All monies from sponsorships generated on EcologyFund go to purchase and protect wild lands. If you click and visit a sponsor's site it will usually double their contribution.

Save land like this, FOR FREE. CLICK HERE!

Land Care Niagara

Land Care Niagara - Land Stewardship since 1995
Click and help plant a tree, for FREE!
Every 5 clicks plants a tree to restore Niagara's fragmented forest ecosystem. As part of the Niagara Natural Heritage Corridor program, these trees will help restore Niagara's ecosystems that provide clean air and water for all while providing much needed habitat for wildlife and endangered species.

The Environment Site.org

The Environment Site.org: Click to Donate
Click to donate money for free to help preserve the environment at TheEnvironmentSite.org. All money raised goes to the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

Tree 4 Life

Tree 4 Life
Click to plant a tree in the Brazilian Rainforest.
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Help By Searching The Net

Raise money for charites while you search the net.

SearchKindly

Search Kindly's goal is to raise money for charity through the power of search. All of the advertising revenue generated by their site is donated to charity.


Search Kindly

Ripple

Every time you conduct a search from the ripple homepage or the ripple toolbar, their search sponsor pays a small amount to ripple. ripple passes this onto charities to help them fight poverty.

Give Water

Give Food

Give Education

Give Money

Everyclick (UK charities)

Everyclick allocates 50% of its gross revenue to charity each month. Each active charity receives a proportion of that sum equivalent to the proportion in which its supporters use the website relative to the supporters of other active charities.

Search the web and raise money for charity

GoodSearch

GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. The money GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers - the users and the organizations do not spend a dime!


GoodSearch: You Search...We Give!

MagicTaxi (UK charities)

MagicTaxi Search Engine
MagicTaxi gives 50% of its advertising revenue to charity. Each day they feature a different charity on their homepage. If you prefer you can support just one of their partners.

Clicks4Cancer

Clicks4Cancer--A Web Portal With a Purpose
When you use Clicks4Cancer.com as your Home Page they will donate 70% of all advertising revenue to various charitable cancer foundations and organizations.

CatchTommorow

CatchTomorrow.com - The Search Engine That Helps Fund Public Education
A search engine and portal that will help provide funding for U.S. public schools for grades K-12.
Each quarter, CatchTomorrow will donate 50 percent of its gross revenue to local schools, allocating the money state by state in relation to the number of visitors to the site from each state.

Books On Giving

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Blogs On Charites

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  • josephh17 Sep 16, 2011 @ 10:21 am | delete
    Great lens. I am going to start using the computer idle time charity that seems like a great charity and good idea. I have a FREE donation site where we donate a tree in your name just for signing up to my newsletter. We are trying to plant 1 million trees this year so be apart of this global movement. Here is the link
    http://squidoo.com/plant-a-tree-for-free-today
  • Liz Kast Jan 21, 2010 @ 9:19 am | delete
    It is amazing how many different ways there is to help the earth! I care a lot about the Earth and now I'm basically going to be on the computer just saving the Earth! Thanks for all the great information!
  • EmmaCooper Oct 12, 2008 @ 3:17 am | delete
    Great lens!
  • EmmaCooper Oct 12, 2008 @ 3:17 am | delete
    Great lens!
  • story3girl Jul 3, 2008 @ 4:05 pm | delete
    Great topic and great lens! I have distributed computing software running on my computer at all times, and I click every day on the hungersite. Please check out my lens at Click to donate for even more ways to help charities.

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