This entry is dedicated to, and about, the myriad ways to help good causes for free online. The useful link is: http://www.freewebs.com/clickforcharity
I saw an article on free rice, the internet game where you enhace your vocabulary and feed the hungry, and clicked the ‘free rice’ tag. I don’t know how many articles there were, but iy was a lot! I wondered: does anyone know about the other ways to help for free? Maybe the Hunger Site, but that’s probably it. There was no way I was going to post a comment on all those blogs (I tried) so I came up with a simpler way to appease my conscience and hopefully help a few people: you’re reading it.
The idea of using advertising to generate profit from a free-to-use service is hardly new. Lots of TV stations use it. Google made a fortune from it (charitable search engines use the same method to earn revenue for good causes). Facebook is pretty successful (Kaioo, its for-charity equivalent, less so). In 2000 or so someone came up with the idea of using it to generate money for charity. Thus, the Hunger Site was born. Click button, view ads, fund a cup of food. Simple. The idea has since spawned imitators. There are now literaaly dozens of click-to-donate websites. There are also other ways to help for free: search engines, e-mails, Facebook applications, even windows messanger. There is a list for them all, somewhere. Maybe.
Here is the link for that list, or in any case the best one I’ve found: www.freewebs.com/clickforcharity. Now go do good!
And alledgedly, $5 to AIDS for every player who joins Everwars here: http://mrgandalf.playeverwars.com/ Its quite a fun game, so enjoy! (I’m Brekker on there, by the way)
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