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-1) Free click-to-donate websites
-2) Cheap, non-profit donation websites
-3) Online charity shops
-4) Pet adoption websites
-5) Goodsearch
-6) Spread the word
-7) Special thanks
1) Free click-to-donate websites
How do they work?
Click-to-donate websites are all entirely free and all work basically the same way. When you click a button on their homepage the website will display a series of banners or buttons from their advertisers. All of the money these websites receive from their advertisers goes to their charity organization.
Greatergood's Sites
All of these websites were created by the same organization, Greatergood.org. They support many causes: hunger, breast Cancer, child health, literacy, rainforest and animal rescue.
Care2.com
Care2.com is similar to the websites above, but they have a bit more of a selection of causes. Their selection of causes include: children, rainforest, big cats, breast Cancer, pets, baby seals, oceans, Global Warming, violence against women and wolves.
Link to Care2's click-to-donate pages
Freekibble
There are two Freekibble websites, one feeds shelter dogs and the other feeds shelter cats. On this website, they have tried to make the click-to-donate process fun. On the homepage of either site, you will be asked a trivia question; you just click the answer you think is right. Whether you get the question right or wrong, they will donate kibble.
Freerice.com
Freerice.com is similar to the Freekibble websites. On this website, you will be given a series of trivia questions and for every answer you get right, Freerice will donate 10 grains of rice to the hungry. That may not seem like much, but in January of 2009 (that is just one month) they donated 2,416,239,520 grains of rice.
Ecology Fund
Ecology Fund supports endangered animals and endangered land. Their list of causes includes: South American rainforests, reducing pollution, endangered Mexican wildlife, United States wilderness, Canadian wildlife/land, expanding Scottish nature reserves, planting Oyamel Firs to save Monarch Butterflies in Mexico, and planting Chestnut trees.
Bhookh.com
Bhookh.com is an organization that spends all money they receive from advertising on food for starving people living in India. Bhookh is named after the Hindi word for hunger.
Link to Bhookh.com.
2) Cheap, non-profit donation websites
All of these organizations require donations, but are still cheap and the money you spend will go to a good cause.
A Billion for a Billion (very cheap)
A Billion for a Billion is determined to reach out to the billion people on the internet and convince them to help the billion people that are starving. Even extremely small donations can help provide meals (only 25 cents in the US can provide one meal and $5 can feed an infant for an entire year)!
Donate
Heifer International
Heifer International is dedicated to feeding the hungry. On their website you can buy an animal or a share of an animal (shares are cheaper). If you buy an animal, the animal will be given to a person in need. If you buy a share of an animal, Heifer will give this animal to those in need after the organization receives the rest of the money necessary for its purchase.
If you are a vegetarian or just don't like the idea of your purchase causing the consumption of an animal, you can still buy honeybees or trees. People can sell honey to buy food and clothing and trees are necessary for a healthy ecosystem.
Saving Shelter Pets inc.
Saving Shelter Pets inc. is an organization that takes animals out of overcrowded, high-kill shelters and into calm, no-kill policy shelters.
Link to their website
Alley Cat Allies
Alley Cat Allies is a donation website and an educational website. What they do is catch stray cats, spay/neuter them, house them until they heal and then release them back where they were found. The animals are unharmed, but can no longer create new generations of unwanted cats. Alley Cat Allies is funded completely by individual donations.
A Child's Right
A Child's Right is dedicated to giving children clean, safe drinking water. Polluted water is the biggest killer of children under five and about 884 million people do not have safe drinking water available.
Link to their website.
Water for People
Water for People is dedicated to giving people living in developing countries safe drinking water.
Water for People's website
African Wildlife Foundation
The African Wildlife Foundation protects endangered African animals and their natural habitat.
AWF's website
Baal Dan (very cheap)
Baaldan.com gives money to children in India suffering from extreme poverty. "Baal" means "Child" and "Dan" means "Donation." Even small donations help a lot (just one US dollar is equivalent to 47 Indian rupees).
Baaldan.com
Helen Keller International
According to Helen Keller International, "80% of blindness worldwide is preventable." and "Poor nutrition is implicated in the death of over 5 million children every year." Helen Keller International is dedicated to stopping preventable blindness and malnutrition, and to fight poverty.
Link to Helen Keller International
ORBIS
ORBIS is a fully functional hospital in the form of an airplane. They provide training for doctors and free medical service to those in poor countries who cannot afford to pay hospital bills.
Link to ORBIS' website
Home for Life
From Home for Life's homepage -
"Home For Life is a new kind of animal shelter, the long-term animal sanctuary. We provide life-time care for the special needs animal, the cat or dog that, while still able to lead a quality life, is unable to find a home due to age, chronic treatable disorder, handicap or similar reason." On this website you can either make a donation or sponsor an animal.
Link to homeforlife.org
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary
Jungle Friends rescues and houses monkeys that have been abused, rescued from research facilities or adopted as pets and later abandoned.
Link to Jungle Friends
Big Cat Rescue
Big Cat Rescue is an organization dedicated to saving big cats from abusive and/or neglectful situations, especially cases were the cats were illegally kept as pets or were bred by inept, uncaring, or cruel people/organizations.
Millennium Promises
Millennium Promises is an organization that fights against extreme poverty, hunger and disease, and fights for human rights.
Millennium Promise: About Us
Patient Access Network
Patient Access Network or "P.A.N," helps the underinsured pay necessary doctor and hospital bills/fees.
Link to panfoundation.com
B.R.A.C
BRAC is dedicated to ending poverty and hunger in Bangladesh.
Link to BRAC.com
Making Memories
This charity grants one last wish to women with untreatable Breast Cancer. This is similar to Make a Wish, which grants final wishes to terminally ill children.
Link to help Making Memories
WildAid
WildAid is an organization dedicated to stopping poachers and the illegal animal trade.
Link to wildaid.com
Dogs Trust (United Kingdom only, very cheap)
Dogs Trust is an organization that houses dogs. It is against their standerds and policy to kill a dog in their care. You can sponsor a dog in their shelter for only £1 a week or £4 a month.
Link to their "Sponsor a Dog" page
3) Online charity shops
On these websites, you can treat yourself and donate to a good cause. All of these shops are affordable too, I make sure of that before I list them here.
Greatergood's Sites' shop
Each of the free click-to-donate websites created by greatergood.org have corresponding shops. Each of these shops have a wide selection of merchandise; chances are that you will find something you like in one of them. This shop is completely non-profit.
Link to their shop (you can change what cause to shop for by using the tabs on the very top of the page).
African Wildlife Foundation shop
When you donate to AWF, all money goes directly to helping endangered animals, but AWF also has an online shop where you can purchase animal plushies, a wide variety of chocolate, tote bags and more; up to 100% of the money you spend on each item/package goes to their charity.
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary shop
Jungle Friends also has a non-profit shop, here you can buy merchandise or sponsor a monkey.
Link to their shop
Big Cat Rescue shop
Big Cat Rescue's non-profit shop has a rather large amount of merchandise for sale for good prices. You can also get free downloadable photos of big cats through this shop.
Link to their shop
Alley Cat Allies
Alley Cat Allies receives all money you pay for merchandise with the Alley Cat Allies logo on it and up to 100% of the money you spend on merchandise without it.
Link to the Alley Cat Allies shop
Baal Dan's shop
Though it does not yet have a large selection, Baal Dan sells merchandise for good prices and their shop is completely non-profit.
Link to Baal Dan's shop
Only Hope Cat Rescue Inc. shop
Only Hope Cat Rescue's non-profit shop has a wide selection of cat merchandise for good prices.
Link to their shop
4) Pet adoption websites
All websites that fall under this title are non-profit organizations dedicated to help homeless pets find good "forever homes." Each website gives you two options to help; you can adopt a pet through their website or make a money donation.
Pets 911
Pets 911 is a search engine for shelter pets. It houses thousands of cats and dogs and some more exotic animals like horses and reptiles.
Is your pet lost?
Dogs in Danger
Dogs in Danger is a website which advertises shelter dogs that have only a few more days before they are put down.
Spalding County Shelter's Last Chance Pets
Last Chance Pets is a list that changes every one or two days. Like Dogs in Danger, it lists shelter pets that have only a few days left before they are put down.
Link to Spalding County Animal Shelter's Last Chance Pets' Page
Adopt a Pet.com
Adopt a Pet is a search engine for shelter animals. You can search for what species, breed, fur color, sex and age you want in an animal, how far the shelter can be from your home and even how long you want the animal's coat to be.
American Mutt-i-grees Club
This charity supports mutts in shelters. Through this website, you can adopt a shelter mutt or sponsor a shelter mutt, or just make a donation.
Link to The American Mutt-i-Grees Club's Website
Only Hope Cat Rescue Inc.
Only Hope Cat Rescue takes lost, abandoned, sick, abused and/or stray cats into the care of fosters. These fosters take the cats into their houses and feed, water, care and play with the cats until they can find a "forever home."
Link their website
5) Goodsearch
Goodsearch is a search engine powered by Yahoo.com. For every time you search on their website, money will be donated by Goodsearch to the charity of your choice. They can afford this because of the money they receive from advertisers.
6) Spread the word
If you would like to post any of the banners or links you saw here on your blog or in your profile on any social networking site, just click here
7) Special Thanks
To the creators of all of these charities and to all of those who have read this and decided to help any or all of these charities, thank you.
I will update this every time I find a new non-profit charity website I believe worth posting, if you have a suggestion, please e-mail me at thecharitysite@yahoo.com.
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Thank you for reading and thank you for clicking!
(this blog was created 10/23/09)
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