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Coverage By The Wall Street Journal
Money for Nothing
Web sites let you donate to charity just by doing searches or clicking on ad banners. And it doesn't cost you anything.
By ALEKSANDRA TODOROVA
April 21, 2008; Page R4
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Syed Karim learned
early on that with charitable giving, even pennies could make a
difference.
With his mother's encouragement, he and his sister got
into the habit of saving a fraction of their allowance to donate to an
orphanage in their home country, Bangladesh. The change usually added
up to less than $100 a year, but when pooled with donations from
friends, family and neighbors, it helped build housing for orphans and
fund scholarships to a university in Bangladesh.
"A lot of people doing a little can be better than a
few people doing a lot," says Mr. Karim, now a 30-year-old graduate
student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "That's
stayed with me all my life."
Now, Mr. Karim and a friend, Ramadev Hukkeri, have taken that idea a step further, with a search engine called SearchKindly.org.
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Latest comment was Friday, May 9, 2008 at 1:01:38 AM
Compassion International is committed to Christian living and the work they are doing is truly amazing. They are providing many hope and care in desperate times by linking individual sponsors to individual children living in poverty all over the world. Whether or not you agree with the religion this charity is incredibly transparent and responsible with their finances in addition to doing good. It is hard to find a charity religious or otherwise that is as deserving of support as Compassion International.
AJ from CA
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 1:01:38 AM
Good news Syed, there is an American counterpart!: http://wildscreenusa.org/
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--Erg...it looks like Wildscreen is a British organization...and the IRS doesn't want us to donate to foreign organizations, so it doesn't look like I can get them on the list unless they have an American counterpart. I know, pretty sucky rules, but unfortunately our hands are tied. Sorry about that. --Syed
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Please add ARKive (http://www.arkive.org) to the list of charities. ARKive, a division of Wildscreen, is a not-for-profit charity organisation, with a long standing reputation for being at the heart of the international wildlife media industry. Wildscreen's mission is to promote the public understanding and appreciation of the world's biodiversity and the need for its conservation, through the power of wildlife imagery.
Esther C from Fairfax, VA
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 11:11:02 AM
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