Squidoo Charity Fund - Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties
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Microdonations Make a Difference
This is the default payment setting on all new lenses. A different charity (or charities) is chosen every few months month to receive these funds. Announcement are periodically made where the money goes on the SquidU forum.
By removing the barriers to giving and making philanthropy as painless as possible, lensmasters can easily create lenses for charity.
The Squidoo Charity Fund exemplifies the concept on which Squidoo.com was founded: making the incremental monumental.
Squidoo Charity Fund
The funds in the Squidoo Charity Fund come from the generosity of tens of thousands of Squidoo users.
Lensmasters build free lenses and donate their lens royalties to a good cause rather than keep the money for themselves.
Squidoo Charity Fund - Promoting Philanthropy through Microdonations
The Squidoo Charity Fund, which is distributed among different registered nonprofits every month, grows from the generosity of tens of thousands of Squidoo users.These are people who build free web pages, or lenses, and then donate their lens royalties to a good cause rather than keep the money for themselves.
Some Squidoo lenses earn a quarter a month. Others earn hundreds.
"Nearly half of our lensmasters are donating their royalties to charity," said Megan Casey, Squidoo's Editor in Chief. "Microdonations are in. One by one, our members are revolutionizing the way philanthropy exists on the web. It's really exciting to watch them making a difference in real people's lives."
Source: PRLeap. February 10, 2007. Squidoo Pioneers Support of Microdonations to Worthy Causes. PRLeap.com
Squidoo Charity Fund Lens Table of Contents
- Squidoo Charity Fund - Promoting Philanthropy through Microdonations
- Tiny Donations Add Up
- What are you doing for others?
- More about the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Make a Lens for the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Send Your Royalties to Charity
- Getting Involved with the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Introducing Squidoo's new Nonprofit Organizer - Anne Reidy
- Updates for July 2008
- Updates for May 2008
- Fun February Financial Facts - February 2008
- January 2008 Updates - Squidoo Charity Fund
- Updates on Squidoo's Charity Work From Anne Reidy
- SquidAid Lenses for the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Initial SquidAid Results from the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Squidoo Charity Fund Recipients
- Squidoo Charity Fund on Squidu and Squidblog
- The Lastest Blog News about the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Lenses Benefit the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Groups Benefit the Squidoo Charity Fund
- How to Create a Squidoo Charity Lens
- How to Make a Squidoo Lens
- Squidoo Charity Fund Featured Lensmasters
- What is the Squidoo Charity Fund?
- Squidoo Lensmasters Supporting the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Ways to Change with World with Squidoo Featured Lens
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable in the Amazon Spotlight
- Unleashing the Idea Virus in the Amazon Spotlight
- Books on Giving Back and Altruism
- Squidoo Charity Fund a Recipient of the All4Care Award
- Squidoo Swag Available on CafePress
- Reader Feedback on the Squidoo Charity Fund Lens
Tiny Donations Add Up
From Kimberly Dawn Wells, Squidoo Community Organizer:Think your ten cents here and twenty cents there don't make a difference? Think again.
People are often afraid to donate if they know they can only donate a little bit. "Oh," they think, "it would be so embarrassing to only give fifty cents, so I'm better off just saying no." If 50,000 people didn't donate anything because they didn't think their little bit would matter, we'd have nothing.
But what if everybody donated "just a little bit?" What if 50,000 people donated just a dollar a month - that would be $600,000 in a year!! And get this: it's not like you're digging into your pockets to do it. You're getting "free" money from Squidoo and sending it to charity. Doesn't that feel good!
The concept of microdonations has never been hotter-or more impactful-and Squidoo is leading the charge.
If you're like me, you have lenses that don't sell anything specific and just make a few cents here and there from those Google ads and SquidOffers. If you set a handful of those lenses to go to charity, that's an extra few dollars each month that an organization can use for cancer research, school supplies, or to find a loving home for an abandoned golden retriever puppy. (That's right, I'm turning the cute factor way up!)
Get started today by finding a charity that interests you on the list of Squidoo Non-Profit Partners.
Source: Kimberly Dawn Wells. April 2007. Tiny Donations Add Up in Connecting with Charities. Squidu Blog.
What are you doing for others?
Make a lens or two or three

- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness.
This is the judgment.
Life's persistent and most urgent question is
'What are you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Source: Jonathan Gruber. Heart. Royalty Free Use.
Microdonations Make a Difference!
Support the Squidoo Charity Fund Poll
More about the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Squidoo : Just the FAQ
- Question # 41 answers What's the Squidoo Charity Fund?
- Build a Squidoo Lens For Charity | Squidoo Lens Author
- Squidoo lensmaster Bdkz has a new project, The Squidoo Charity Challenge. She's challenging everyone to build (or convert) at least one lens a month for charity of your choice.
- SquidU Review - Connecting with Charities
- From April 2007 One of the big highlights of Squidoo, something that really sets it apart from other expertise/recommendation websites, is your ability to is your ability to automatically send your royalties to charity. Squidoo users have raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity in just the past few months!
- Squidoo Pioneers Support of Microdonations to Worthy Causes
- From 2007 Squidoo.com today announced DonorsChoose and Modest Needs as the latest recipients of the Squidoo Charity Fund.
Make a Lens for the Squidoo Charity Fund
Send Your Royalties to Charity
One of the big highlights of Squidoo, something that really sets it apart from other expertise/ recommendation websites, is your ability to automatically send your royalties to charity. Squidoo users have raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity in just the past few months!That translates to real world achievement, like funding schools in Cambodia, reading rooms in India, contributing to important cancer research, sending HIV medicine to hundreds of children, rescuing animals, and a lot more.
Source: Kimberly Dawn Wells. April 2007. Tiny Donations Add Up in Connecting with Charities. Squidu Blog.

Change can Change
Getting Involved with the Squidoo Charity Fund
I initially got involved with Squidoo in Summer of 2007 to create lenses about the NICU that benefited the March of Dimes. I liked the philosophy of Squidoo allowing people to make lenses for free that could benefit charities.After creating NICU lenses, I caught the Squidoo "Idea virus" and began making more lenses for other reasons and other causes.
In October 2007, after the Southern California Fires hit in my home state I got an idea to harness the power of Squidoo to create lenses that could benefit the survivors, as part of SquidAid. (The California Fires were the first natural disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.)
Working with the Squidoo Elite, Headquarters and several of the Giant Squid Lensmasters, we came up with a way for all interested Squidoo lensmasters to create lens pages that support the Survivors of Disaster and the Southern California Fire Survivors. SquidAid was developed to "Enable the Squidoo Community to Use the Internet and Aid Survivors of Disaster by Making Lenses."
After SquidAid
After catching the Giving Back Virus, I've gone on to create lenses that benefit many other charities, but always giving at least 10% back on each lens to the Squidoo Charity Fund. I've since been dubbed by Bonnie a.k.a. bdkz as "Squidoo's One Woman Charity Machine!" and "a huge inspiration to the Squidoo Community."
Introducing Squidoo's new Nonprofit Organizer - Anne Reidy
Anne Reidy, Squidoo's new Nonprofit OrganizerUpdates for July 2008
- Wow! Seriously?
You raised $8,000 for charity.
No wait, really? Seriously? $8,000?
Yup.
$3,000 to various causes, the biggest earners are Action Against Hunger, Save the Children and Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation.
And, of course, $5000 to the Squidoo Charity Fund.
Way to go everyone!
Can we do better next month? Sure we can...
It will be interesting to see what the numbers will be like in August, when the results of the Squidoo SuperHero Challenge will register.
Source: Anne Reidy. July 2008. Wow! Seriously?. Cheerleading for Charity.
Updates for May 2008
We have more than 82 charities who are getting help through Squidoo. Our top seven charities that got the most donations from lensmasters were:
* Action Against hunger
* Save the Children
* Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation
* ASPCA
* Humane Society
* Room to Read
* Acumen Fund
Don't see your favorite charity here? Make a lens for them! Don't see them on the list? Drop your favorite org a note and introduce them to me!
Make some change happen! Let's make even more money next month!
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According to Anne the Squidoo Charity Fund raised more than $4,000 for the month of May.
Way to Go!
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Source: Anne Reidy. June 2008. Wow! That's amazing!. Cheerleading for Charity.
Fun February Financial Facts - February 2008
From Kimberly Dawn Wells:Lensmasters donated nearly $10,000 to the Squidoo Charity Fund in December. Hooray for the power of many people with a similar goal!
Tens of thousands more dollars were donated to specific charities.
The top 5 charities getting the most direct donations were:
- #1 Room to Read
#2 Save the Children
#3 ASPCA
#4 Acumen Fund
#5 Donors Choose
January 2008 Updates - Squidoo Charity Fund
From Megan Casey:Our Squidoo Charity Fund, which is entirely stocked by royalty donations from lensmasters, recently sent tens of thousands of dollars (> $10,000) to these inspiring, upstanding orgs:
- MyTwoFrontTeeth
Donors Choose
A Day of Hope
California Community Foundation
Steve's Club
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
And a special thanks to 2 lensmasters, Doctor Kirsti Dyer and Christopher Scott, who totally, totally get that lenses are vital tools for fundraising and getting the word out.
Source: Megan Casey. January 2008. Better than Vegas. Squidblog.
Updates on Squidoo's Charity Work From Anne Reidy
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySquidoo - Removes the barriers to giving and makes philanthropy as painless as possible.
SquidAid Lenses for the Squidoo Charity Fund
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Squidoo Fire Aid - Using the Internet to Aid California Fire Survivors
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All Squidoo lensmasters are encouraged to create a lens or two or even three as part of the SquidAid and the Squidoo Fire Aid Challenge to benefit California Fire Survivors. We're asking all Squidoo lensmasters to make a lens or two or three with fun...
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SquidAid Group Headquarters
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SquidAid Group Headquarters Enabling the Squidoo Community to Use the Internet and Aid Survivors of Disaster by Making Lenses. Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Jean De La Brute...
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SquidAid Responders
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SquidAid Responders are the Squidoo Lensmasters who responded to the call to aid the survivors of disasters. All Squidoo Lensmasters are encouraged to become SquidAid Responders by make new lenses or modify existing lenses and choose the royalt...
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SquidAid - Using the Internet to Aid Survivors of Disasters
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In the spirit of LiveAid, BandAid, FarmAid and Tsunami Aid comes SquidAid, a way for the Squidoo Community to use the Internet to aid survivors of disasters. While it may be difficult for the Squidoo Community of Lensmasters to stage a major concert,...
Initial SquidAid Results from the Squidoo Charity Fund
The response for SquidAid from Headquarters and the Powers that be were very remarkable and generous.Megan committed the following resources to SquidAid from the Squidoo Charity Fund:
- 1. A donation of $1,000 from the Charity Fund from
previous months directly to the Relief Efforts for the fire victims.
2. An additonal commitment to donate half of the Squidoo Charity Fund's earnings during the months of October and November to Relief Efforts for the fire victims.
The California Community Foundation ended up being the recipient, since they matched the first $250,000 in contributions to the Southern California Wildfire Relief Fund and waive administrative fees to ensure all donations will be used for relief activities. Donating to Cal Fund was an easy way to double the strength of the SquidAid donations.
Squidoo Charity Fund Recipients
- The Acumen Fund
- Donors Choose
- The California Community Fund
- JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)
- Room to Read
- Tides Foundation
- Veterans for America
- Modest Needs
- Kiva
- Save the Children
- The American Heart Association
- A Day of Hope
- ASPCA
Squidoo Charity Fund on Squidu and Squidblog
- SquidU Review - Fun February Financial Facts
- Updates from February 2008 on the donations raised by lensmasters for the Squidoo Charity Fund.
- SquidBlog - Better than Vegas
- From January 2008, updates on sending out checks to nonprofit organizations that are changing the world.
- Make a Lens for SquidAid - Become a SquidAid Responder
- Updates on the SquidAid Response from January 2008.
- Squidoo Charity Fund - February 2007
- From the Lensmaster Lounge a post from February 2007 about new charities added to the list of recipients.
The Lastest Blog News about the Squidoo Charity Fund
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byLenses Benefit the Squidoo Charity Fund
Add your lens that benefits the Squidoo Charity Fund to the list below:
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Comfortdoc's SquidAid Lenses - A Lensography
I have always believed in the Healing Benefits of more...2 points
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Squidoo Charity Fund - Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties
The Squidoo Charity Fund is for people who want to more...2 points
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SquidAid Responders
SquidAid Responders are the Squidoo Lensmasters wh more...1 point
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SquidAid - Using the Internet to Aid Survivors of Disasters
In the spirit of LiveAid, BandAid, FarmAid and Tsu more...1 point
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Squid's Choice Awards
The Squid's Choice Awards originated on Squidoo's more...1 point
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Squidoo's Top Ten List
There are some very interesting people behind the more...1 point
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Squidoo SuperHero Project
The Squidoo SuperHero Project is to create 5 lense more...1 point
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About the Squidoo charities you support
We all know how good it feels to donate to charity more...1 point
Groups Benefit the Squidoo Charity Fund
- SquidAid Group Headquarters
- SquidAid Group Headquarters Enabling the Squidoo Community to Use the Internet and Aid Survivors of Disaster by Making Lenses. Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Jean De La Brutere
- The Charity Giants Headquarters
- The Charity Giants. This group is all about letting Giant Squids Give something back through their lenses.
- Giving Back Headquarters
- Giving back is a way of doing good for others, for humanity and for the planet. It is a way of expressing your gratitude.The purpose of the Giving Back / Altruism Group is to focus on lenses about organizations, groups or people that are giving back to others.
How to Create a Squidoo Charity Lens
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Squidoo Tutorial: How to make a group to support a charity
A tutorial walking you through the creation of a group that supports a charity.
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How to Make a Squidoo Lens
Tips from Lensmaster extraordinaire, Margaret on making a Squidoo lens.-
How to Make Your First (or Second) Squidoo Lens
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Step-by-step, here's how to get started, answers to clear up some confusion, and all the basics to help you be a GREAT lensmaster right off the bat! There are FAQs, instructions, tips and techniques, common mistakes, some strategies and some technic...
Make a lens or two or three to benefit the Squidoo Charity Fund.
You'll be glad you did.
Squidoo Charity Fund Featured Lensmasters
These are just some of the lensmasters supporting the Squidoo Charity Fund.What is the Squidoo Charity Fund?
A shorter version of this lens created for the Answer Deck HQ.-
What is the Squidoo Charity Fund?
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The Squidoo Charity Fund is a general charity fund on Squidoo. The fund was developed for those lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity but are unable to decide which one. The Squidoo Charity Fund is the default payment setting on...
Squidoo Lensmasters Supporting the Squidoo Charity Fund
There are many lensmasters who support the Squidoo Charity Fund.
Add your name if you aren't on the list and you've made a lens for the Squidoo Charity Fund.
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The GypsyPirate Lensography
Well, here it is - welcome to proof of my addictio more...2 points
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Lenses by rms
I'm rms and this is a lens about me and my lenses! more...1 point
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Comfortdoc - Griefdoc - Momdoc - Professordoc - Lensdoc - Greendoc
This is the lensography, or collection of lenses, more...1 point
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Kim Giancaterino Lensography
Welcome to my Squidoo collection. Every time I com more...1 point
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AtHomeSource
The lensmaster page for AtHomeSource.1 point
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SemperFidelis
"A Dad, Mom, 5 kids, and we're haven' fun!&qu more...1 point
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Katiyana's Lenses
I'm Stephanie, owner of Katiyana's Collectibles. I more...1 point
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Loyalis-ography
A relatively organized glimpse into my Squidoo eff more...1 point
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Lensography of A Well Dressed Bullet
This is a list of all our Squidoo lenses and lenso more...1 point
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Doug Eby and Great LensMasters
Hi there! I'm Doug Eby (eebee)Rather then having j more...1 point
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EnslavedbyFaeries' Lensography
My name is Briton. I am a happily married, stay at more...0 points
Ways to Change with World with Squidoo Featured Lens
Bonnie is encouraging everyone to change the world by making Squidoo lenses to benefit charities.-
bdkz's Squidoo Charity Challenge for May 2008
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Welcome to May's "Convert A Lens" For Charity Challenge! This month's we are featuring two charities, The Children's Defense Fund and Save the Children.
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bdkz's Squidoo Charity Challenge for April 2008
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Welcome to April's "Convert A Lens" For Charity Challenge! This month's featured charity is the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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Over 50 Ways You Can "Change The World" Using Squidoo!
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I bet you didn't know that building a lens could change the world...well I'm here to tell you that it can! Think about it...if every Lensmaster on Squidoo created 1 lens per month and donated the funds to Charity that would add up to a heck of a lot...
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Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable.
Revolutionizing Philanthropy through Microdonations.
Unleashing the Idea Virus in the Amazon Spotlight
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Squidoo is an example of an Idea Virus, a viable commercial concept set loose among those who are most likely to catch it, become infected and pass it on to others who might do the same.
According to Seth, "The future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk."
Books on Giving Back and Altruism
To learn more about Giving Back and Altruism, see some of these books available on Amazon.
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Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research that Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by Stephen Post, Jill Neimark
A longer life. A happier life. A healthier life. A more...1 point
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Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)
This anthology explores the enterprise of philanth more...1 point
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Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Givi more...1 point
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The Brighter Side Of Human Nature: Altruism And Empathy In Everyday Life by Alfie Kohn
Drawing from hundreds of studies in half a dozen f more...1 point
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Do It Anyway: Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness by Living the Paradoxical Commandments by Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-cente more...1 point
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Ordinary Grace by Kathleen A. Brehony
"Ordinary Grace...will make you proud to be a more...1 point
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Living Well While Doing Good by Donna Schaper
For GenX'ers, maturing activists and hippies, busy more...0 points
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly enc more...0 points
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The Power of Serving Others: You Can Start Where You Are by Gary Morsch, Dean Nelson
No one wants to end life's journey wondering: Did more...0 points
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Be the Change! Change the World. Change Yourself. by Hundreds of Heads
Be the Change celebrates the personal transformati more...0 points
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The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness by Lee Alan Dugatkin
In a world supposedly governed by ruthless surviva more...0 points
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Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service by Ram Dass, Mirabai Bush
Featuring an eye-catching new cover, this classic more...0 points
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We Make a Life by What We Give (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies) by Richard B., Ph.D. Gunderman
According to an old saying, "We make a living more...0 points
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The Heart of Altruism by Kristen Renwick Monroe
Is all human behavior based on self-interest? Many more...0 points
Squidoo Charity Fund a Recipient of the All4Care Award
The Squidoo Charity Fund Lens has received the All4Care award.This award is for a Lens or Lensmaster who is doing outstanding work for charity sponsored by Janusz Biela.
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Reader Feedback on the Squidoo Charity Fund Lens
I've pulled together the resources that I could find on the Squidoo Charity Fund. If you know of others that should be included on this lens or just want to leave a message or say "Hi" leave a message.
Comfortdoc wrote...
Tipi Thanks for catching that. With the last Squidoo lens template update, the Royalty settings were changed when they moved the lenses to the new template. I've been catching them as I can. Now this one is corrected.
Tipi wrote...
I see that the Squidoo Charity Fund lens doesn't donate anything to the Squidoo Charity Fund. Nice lens otherwise! :)
Starving_Artist wrote...
this is an excellent source of information..this really is a great lens to send someone to to help them understand how Squidoo supports charities
Joan4 wrote...
This is very helpful and educational lens. I needed this one. Thank you for creating it!
enslavedbyfaeries wrote...
This is great! I have two lenses that donate 100% to the Squidoo Charity fund but I honestly didn't know much about the organizations it supported. I just thought it was the right thing to do because the lenses require a lot of involvement from the Squidoo community and it seemed appropriate to use any profits for a good cause. Thank you for the great work you do here on Squidoo. :)
Benefitting the Squidoo Charity Fund
This lens benefits the Squidoo Charity Fund, created for lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity, but can't decide where to send them.Doesn't that make you feel good?
Image: Squidoo Donating. © Kirsti A. Dyer. Some Rights Reserved.
by Comfortdoc
Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT is a respected physician, an expert in life challenges, loss, grief and bereavement, professional health educator, professor...
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