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Giving To Charity A Click A Day
Many people have a cycle for their charitable giving. Some people do a little all year 'round while others cluster it during the holidays or in the fall or spring when organizations and schools do their annual campaigns.
For our kids, one of the best lessons we can teach them is the importance of giving back in small ways daily and sometimes I fear we all get so busy we forget that lesson. We wait until the huge charitable pushes to remind us to give. What if you had a simple and easy way to give to great causes while doing things you always do, like surf the internet, would you do it? I have a feeling you would, as I would and many people I know.
Well, it turns out there is a site aimed around just that concept that my daughter's social studies teacher told her about at the end of the last school year. The start of a new school year seemed like the perfect time to tell you about it.
Called "Click To Give", the site has 6 tabs: Hunger, Breast Cancer, Child Health, Literacy, Rain Forest, Animal Rescue. The concept is simple - you click and sponsors for the agree to give the funds. For the Child Health Site, for example, the "how does it work" explanation in the middle of all the sections it reads:
"When you click, we display ads from our site sponsors. 100% of the money from these advertisers goes to our charity partners , who fund programs to provide healthcare for children in need."
The charitable partners are different for each group and targeted for that cause. Very cool way to give each day - all we have to do is bookmark the site and click. Given how much useless clicking we do each day, this is one way we can be sure we click on something that will make a difference. And, this is a fantastic way to teach kids about giving and the global community. My daughter clicks each day on her rain forest button. This has become a cause important to her. If nothing else, you'll start learning your kids global interests by starting to talk with them about the world around us.
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