The Rabbit Hole
The holiday season is a season for giving, but thanks to the recession, the majority of people are looking for ways to cut back. Luckily there are a few sites available where you can benefit charities with just a few seconds of your time and a few clicks of your mouse.
With two clicks a day at Poverty Fighters, sponsors donate 25 cents in loan credit to those in need. These microcredit loans help poor people open businesses or improve and grow current business ventures.
In their click2donate section, Care2 features 10 causes you can click to support including stopping global warming, preserving the rain forest, saving baby seals, saving ocean animals, saving big cats, saving primates, helping children in need, helping homeless pets, stopping violence against women, and preventing breast cancer.
This network of sites features six different causes to benefit. You can click to give food to rescued animals, save the rain forest, fund literacy, provide children with healthcare, give free mammograms to women in need, and give food to the hungry. Each cause has it’s own shop where you can also purchase items, but it’s simple to visit everyday and just take the time to click and make a difference.
Probably the most popular, and most enjoyable of these click-to-give sites is Free Rice . Instead of just clicking a button, here you click to answer questions that challenge your knowledge of language, arts, chemistry, geography, and math. It features the fun of challenging yourself and the benefit of learning something new, while providing free rice to people in need with each correct answer.
I obviously cannot provide a comprehensive list of all the click-to-give sites available with just five sites, but oneclickatatime.org has a complete directory of click to give sites worldwide. They’re divided into categories so you can easily find your favorite charity. Plus it’s a snap to bookmark this one page and visit it daily to access all the click-to-donate sites.
See also…
5 Sites Featuring Affordable Holiday Gifts That Give Back