Click-to-donate site
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Click to donate sites are web sites where users can click a button to generate a donation for a charity or cause. The money for the donation comes from advertisers whose banners are displayed each time a user clicks the button. While not directly contributing (though many sites offer additional ways of support), visitors are making a difference in the sense that, had they not visited, no donation would have been given.
In most cases, the donation generated by each user only amounts to a few cents, but the goal is to accumulate enough clicks to add up to a significant amount.
Many charities launched this style of program in the late 1990's. However, the constriction of online advertising spending around 2001 following the dot-com collapse caused many sites to be closed. Yet there are still many which are in operation.
Talk show host Oprah has endorsed this as a positive use of the Internet (originally mentioning site freedonation.com), and a good way to help humanity as a whole.
External links
- EcologyFund (Save natural habitats)
- Tree4Life (Plant part of a tree)
- Care2 (natural habitat and more)
- Free Donation (Many causes)
- Stop the Hunger (Stop hunger)
- Wild Globe (Environment)
- Land Care Niagara (Plant a tree)
- Red Jellyfish (Save rainforest)
- The Environment Site (Save rainforest)
- Conserve Bird Habitat (Protect estuaries)
- Click for Wolves (Wolf reintroduction and education)
- Bible Site (Bibles for Persecuted Christians)
- Bibles2theworld (AIDS and Christianity)
- Sponsored Hike from Nottingham to Morocco for children in Africa
Hunger Site network:
- HungerSite (donates food)
- Breast Cancer Site (funds mammograms)
- Child Health Site (funds several children's medical causes)
- LiteracySite (buys books for children)
- Rainforest Site (buys rainforests to protect them)
- Animal Rescue Site (feeds animals in shelters)
Multiple donation pages:
- Daily Charity A tool that allows you to choose your favorite "click-to-donate" fund drives (from a large selection) and click them at once.
- Wiseup allows you to make one click that works on several different websites at once.
See for a more comprehensive information the German Wikipedia with special attention to Thehungersite.com and web linksde:One Click Charity Donation ja:クリック募金 zh:點擊捐贈