Taking a cue from the online field test movement, a group of Stanford University students created greatnonprofits.org - where volunteers, nonprofit workers, donors and the needy rate the charities they encounter.
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Cosmosing.com, a social networking website, launched a fund raising program today that helps needy children. When visitors play a trivia game and earn points that are then converted to dollars by the program's sponsors and donated to children international
This video is of a virtual U2 concert in Second Life. The creators are not affiliated with U2 but are apparently promoting a charity. The editing is excellent and overall is a nice example of machinima (movies created from footage taken in video games). The video has received over 129,000 views on YouTube.
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A new search engine, Zotspot, has entered the search engine fray. It offers a new wrinkle in the search engine universe.
In a nutshell, it's willing to pay users for using the search engine. Rather than keeping ad revenue generated by searching, Zotspot is willing to give a share of it to users. They say they will send them a check directly or make a contribution to a charity of the user's choice.
The more users make legitimate use of Zotspot, and the more they convince their friends to do so, the more money users can expect, according to the Zotspot folks. Searches designed to simply increase a user's search statistics can be easily spotted, the Zotspotters say. The charities, at the moment, are limited to a list of approved charities recognized by Zotspot. More will be added later, the Zotspot folks say, once they've been vetted by company officials.
The service is free. Users need to register, so they get credit for the searches they make. The service's main site, http://www.zotspot.com, also tells users how to get credit for referring others to Zotspot.
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Yahoo has come up with a way to mix social networking with charities andnon-profits. Called Yahoo!For Good, it has partnered with 'charity aggregator' Networkfor Good and launched a personalized Charity Badge - for people to put ontheir websites, social networks or email. To promote the initiative, Yahoo! willmatch the amount raised by the user who generates the largest number ofindividual donations from their personal social network (up to $50,000).
The Charity Badge works by allowing website owners or social network users tocreate and publish a personalized badge (essentially a widget). You can even putit on your email signature. Withthe badge you can set up a link to your favorite charity, so that family, friendsand others in your social network can donate as well. Or you can simply copy thecode for an existing badge, that someone else set up for a charity. Check out the top10 badges to get an idea of how this works.
