Topic: Charity
One-Click Charities The financial crisis has hit every sector of the economy, and along with the rest, charitable donations have fallen. One-click charities offer an alternative for those strapped of cash. With donations paid by advertisers, users can give money, generally one time per day, at not cost to themselves.by Dan Clore
(libertarian)
Monday, February 9, 2009
One-Click Charities
by Dan Clore
The financial crisis has hit every sector of the economy, and along with the rest, charitable donations have fallen. One-click charities offer an alternative for those strapped of cash. With donations paid by advertisers, users can give money with the click of a button, generally once per day, at no cost to themselves.
The following is an annotated list of one-click charities.
FreeRice. This site offers users a vocabulary quiz. With each correct answer, ten grains of rice are donated to the hungry. This gives users a great opportunity to improve their vocabulary. (For those interested, I hover in the low fifties of the sixty levels of difficulty.) No limit on number of clicks per day.
AIDtoChildren. Another vocabulary quiz. For each correct answer, 0.25 cents goes to World Vision. (This one has twenty-six levels of difficulty. I easily reach twenty-six, and go back and forth from there and twenty-five.)
Poverty Fighters. With each click advertisers donate 25 cents for microcredit loans for self-employment among the world's poor. Two clicks allowed per day.
The Hunger Site. Each click gives 1.1 cups of food to the hungry. Once per day.
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Posted By: Jahfre Fire Eater
Date: 2009-02-09 17:02:21
Thanks Dan.
TRD, I'm with you, sort of. I know how it works because the internet and business is my world. I don't know "if" it works. There is no way to ever know if your clicks help anyone. For all I know they could be hooked to electric shocks on slacking workers in Burma. If they are, well, I'd like to thank those sleepy folks for helping improve my vocabulary. :-)
This seems to me like one of those chain junk email that we used to get where it claimed that Bill Gates will give $X for every person you send the email too, etc... [link edited for length]
How about sending me 10 grains of rice for every right answer?
I would not mind the clicking and eating while expanding my vocabulary. Assuming 1,000 grains are in one cup, that's 100 right answers. If you play the easy level and depending on thespeed of your connection you can get 1 right answer every 5-6 seconds. So you can get a cup of rice on 8 minutes. 1 cup of rice is about 0.22 pounds and rice is about $1.5 per pound. So 1 cup or raw rice is about $0.33. So in theory you could make about $2.47 per hour paid in rice. But since lunch time is rarely paid, if I can read click and eat for free I would.
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