Philanthropy is no more a prerogative of rich people in the times of Adsense and Pay Per Play. The internet has given every single netizen tremendous opportunities to do his karma. Advertising is often criticized for its inability to do any solid service to mankind but we do have examples where advertising is turning out to be life savior now. I have found some links for you to do your share of good.
1) FreeRice: This site was created in October 2007 and it is a vocabulary game where you try to guess the correct synonym out of four options. 20 grains of rice are donated for every single answer.
2) Ripple: It is a charitable site which earns money through clicking and searching and the guys behind this site are also associates of Boston Consulting Group. The users have the freedom to choose their preferred form of charity out of the option of four.
3) FreePoverty: This site is pretty similar to Free Rice in a way that you do play some game on this one too. You locate places which are asked on a world map and you receive points on the basis of accuracy of your answers. The points then convert into cups of water which are donated by the site.
4) Carbon Grove: It is a Carbon Reduction Reminder Service where it will remind you about small things that can make a big impact in saving environment. You also get to plant a virtual tree and the site promises to plant up to 250,000 real trees in deforested regions across the globe. The only problem with this is that you have to use Internet Explorer to do this.
I would like to mention another site called Charity USA which has many daughter sites like The RainForest site, The Hunger site, The Breast Cancer site, The Child Health site but it’s a for profit organization which means it donates only a share of its revenues.
There are quite a few more sites but I didn’t had many reasons to believe in their claims.
