Fun & Easy Ways to Support Worthy Causes While You Surf the Web

Non-profits and charity organizations are using the power of the Internet to promote their causes in innovative ways. Simple things that we already do when we’re online, like playing a game, conducting a Web search, or installing a toolbar can also be ways to give back. You can help with just a click of your mouse!

Games:

FreeRice: Answer trivia questions, and for each correct response, they will donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.

Food Force: Benefitting the United Nations Food Programme, this is a downloadable  game based on the same premise as FreeRice.

Mission Pneumonia: Take a seven question quiz about pneumonia. Tweet or post the questions to Facebook to spread the word, and play with the interactive map. Mission Pneumonia is brought to you by Save the Children.

Games That Give: More than 20 of the most popular games, absolutely free, at The Hunger Site. 70% of advertising on the games is donated to fight hunger.

Clicks:

CharityUSA.com operates a number of websites where your clicks benefit causes like Breast Cancer research. Visit one site and easily access the others through the tabs at the top of the page.

Search/Add-ons:

Good Search: Enter the charity or school you support, click verify, and then use the search engine like you normally would. They will donate to the cause for every search. Update: Good Search now has plugins and toolbars for your Web browser!

Blackle: A search engine developed by Google that saves on energy.  It does everything the original Google search engine can do but saves on Watts everytime you make a search.  To date, Blackle has saved over 2,557,808.463 Watt hours.

Green: A Firefox add-on that uses money from the usual ads you see on webpages to finance the development of clean energy sources. You can fight global warming while you browse.

The Save Darfur Toolbar: Download this toolbar to your Web browser and raise money for Save Darfur every time you use the search feature, at no cost to you.

Good 50: A search engine created by a teenager who wanted her 82 year old grandfather to have an easier time searching online. The search box is larger with easier to read text, and what’s more, for every 50 visits to Good50, they will give 5 cents or more to charity. Good50 is powered by Google, and allows you to easily add a search box to your browser.

iGive: A search engine that raises money for the organization that you choose to search for.  This site has donated more than $5,523,142.65 for more than 52,745 causes just by getting visitors to search for their favorite cause.