PayPal’s ‘Regift the Fruitcake’ campaign returns for a second year, encouraging charity through social media and the power of the unwanted holiday fruitcake.
As Dow Sinks, Charity Traffic Goes Up
There’s probably more than one way to interpret Bill Tancer’s chart comparing visits to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) website and visits to charitable sites. At first glance, if you’re an optimist, it’s a shred of evidence to support faith in our better natures.
Google Pushing Charity Through iGoogle Themes
Keeping within the Holiday spirit, Google is doing something a little more significant than helping track the path of Santa Claus. They’re offering a number of iGoogle themes for causes in an effort to spread awareness and raise donations. They’re clearly taking it seriously because there is a link to them right from the front page of the search engine, and usually there is not a whole lot of change going on there aside from the occasional doodle.
SMS Based Charity Systems
There are tons of uses for SMS (text messaging); Clickatell recently published a guide to 101 business uses for SMS. I’m still making my way through it, but it’s a great read. Read/Write Web last week posted a great guide to how SMS is being used for giving.
Google’s New Initiative: Clicks for Charity
Google launches “Clicks for Charity,” turning user searches into donations for charities. Learn how every click contributes to a good cause.
Google.org Aspires To Charity, Profits
Google.org has been getting a fair amount of attention lately. “The philanthropic arm of Google” was formed in late 2004, and, unlike most charitable ventures, is a for-profit entity. Although that sounds somewhat troubling, a recent interview with Dr. Brilliant, the Google Foundation’s executive director, should put any fears to rest.
Bill Gates Donated To Charity
Here’s a roundup of a few Windows Vista news items:
MSN Invokes Karma For Charity Campaign
MSN is launching a karmic charity campaign called Under the Butterfly, a concept based on the famous Butterfly Effect that asserts small events impact larger ones. It’s “karmic” because participants in the event will have a choice: keep a prize or donate the cash equivalent.
Google Makes Brilliant Choice For Charity
The Well co-founder Larry Brilliant has accepted the position as the executive director of Google’s philanthropic endeavor, Google.org. Larry Brilliant brings a combination of medical background and technological savvy to his new job…
eBayer Seeks e-Charity; PayPal Accepted
A New York City man put up a broken Sony Mini-Disc player for sale on eBay in the hopes of raising cash to get him out of “serious financial trouble.”