Making A Difference With Your Clicks

          You may have heard about them in your online time. You may not think they don't really help. You may not think that they are legitimate. You may have never heard of them. I'm talking about click-to-give sites where you click to engage in online activities and a specified amount of funds are released on your behalf and are donated to those in need. Yes, I'm sure that they are sites that are poor in quality or do not do what they claim. I'm sharing with you click-to-give sites where I click daily or regularly, am well-acquainted with and am convinced are legitimate, really seeking to help the needy. Normally, unless my computer is acting up, visiting these sites and clicking in the designated areas takes just minutes out of my day.
          Want a site where your clicks help feed starving or hungry children in the US as well as children in other parts of the world? There is a site for you. It's called World Legacy. At this site, you click two designated buttons, one to fight hunger worldwide and the other to fight hunger in the US. There is a sponsor who pays for your clicks to fight global hunger and another sponsor who pays for your clicks to fight US hunger. Though you can click both buttons all you want, only one click per person is counted and actually releases funds. Yes, it's true that on this site one click per day adds up to just pennies (1/4 cup of food per click to fight global hunger is a paltry amount). But if many people click daily, these clicks can add up fast. On this site, you can find a chart where there is a breakdown of how, collectively, many people's clicks help combat hunger both in the US and globally. All sponsor money is said to go directly to fight hunger. So if you ever feel that you don't have "two nickels to rub together" and have nothing to give, you can make a difference at World Legacy. Sharing this site with others so they can do likewise, increases your impact. You can visit World Legacy right here at:
http://www.worldlegacy.org/index.htm.
          Want a site where you can help save children's lives? There is a site for that. It's called the Tarahumara Children's Hospital Fund. The clicks done at this site are calculated monthly. Your clicks at this site actually help fund a children's hospital and keeps it open so health care providers can keep serving destitute children. This site provides much detail in their stories and photos of all that is being done to meet the various needs of the children served and how their lives are not only being saved but are being changed. Daily, you click on a designated button and you will see a count of clicks as they add up in real-time each month. After you click, you are given a link where you can visit a page where you can view a chart that gives a breakdown of how everyone's collective clicks help keep the Tarahumara Children"s Hospital open and the the hours of hospital care that everyone's clicks have funded that month. Yes, the clicks you make at this site supplement the work done for the children served through actual public donations. Moved to give of your financial resources to increase your impact? Your actual donations are warmly welcome where there is a donation button. But to click daily, no donated is required. To visit this site, go to http://www.tchforegon.org/.
          Want a site where your clicks help different charities that are trusted and help causes that most of us care about? There's a a site for that. It's simply called Click-To-Give, Give To Charity For Free! At this site you click once to help 6 different charities, adding up to 6 clicks per day. These clicks benefit abused animals, abused children, poor children, the homeless, children with cancer, and sponsors individual needy children. Your daily clicks to each charity may add up to pennies per day, but if many people click for each charity daily, the clicks add up and much good can be done. At the "Follow Our Progress" tab on the left of the site, you can see that many thousands of clicks for charity were done the previous month. There are six designated click buttons for each charity. Again, though you can click each button over and over, only one click at each of the 6 buttons per day actually releases funds for the designated nonprofits. And though I have never taken advantage of it, you can "earn points" and be able to "claim rewards" of free items purchased from the charities involved; there is a "rewards store" for this. As you click each button for each charity, you are assured that 100 percent of sponsor money goes directly to the designated charities. To track your individual progress on this site and to "earn points" and be able to "claim prizes," you need to set up an account with this site. But it is worth it in that you are encouraged as you can see how, over time, your clicks are actually helping multiple causes and trusted nonprofits. I encourage you to visit this site; do it at: http://www.clicktogive.com?ref=42267.
          Want to check out a site for a cause that uses multiple social networks to empower you to get involved and which is expanding in scope? Join My Village (JMV) is for you. JMV is an iniative partnership between General Mills, Merck and the CARE organization. General Mills and Merck have committed to donating money to CARE but this is done only through your clicks and through money donations which they match with their money. All these $$$ go to CARE so the nonprofit can better serve girls and women in Malawi, one of the poorest areas in the world and in Africa. JMV helps girls and women through giving them educational opportunities, empowering them to break the cycle of deep poverty. And this year, JMV has expanded to serve girls and women in India, also through the means of educational opportunties. JMV focuses on girls and women because it's females who, by far, are denied educational opportunties and because when they do receive such opportunites, the payoff is much greater because educated women bear fewer children, are better wives and mothers and are able to take better care of their families. And they increase their earning power and are in a far better position, when educated, to support their families and serve society. JMV runs a Facebook page where every interaction with it releases funds to CARE for girls and women; this page is linked to their site whose link I will soon be sharing. They run a Facebook cause which is linked to the page. And they run a website which is also interactive and where funds are released every time you click to perform online activities there or share these activities with those in your network. Your clicks are worth $1-$3 a click. When you enter this site, you can see that, over time, well over $1 million have been donated to JMV. On the Facebook page, the cause site and on the JMV website, you can view different photoes, videos, slideshows and stories. JMV shows how everyone's daily clicks and matched donations actually help these girls and women, where the $$$ are going and how these girls and women's lives are being changed for the better. Not content to just click but also feel moved to share your financial resources" On their site, JMV provide a donation button where your donations are warmly welcome but not required to click and click over and over. You can visit this updated, revamped website at: http://www.joinmyvillage.com/.
          Want to make a difference for 8 different, popular causes each day? There is a network of 8 linked, click-to-give sites that are for you. These click-to-give sites are called the Greater Good Network sites. There are 8 different sites where you can help feed hungry children, help feed rescued animals, help provide free mammograms for needy women, help feed homeless veterans, help provide therapy for autistic children, help fund health care for needy children, help provide books for needy children, and help preserve rainforests. The 8 sites are all linked so that you can click the 8 designated buttons in less than two minutes per day, assuming your computer is running at full capacity. No matter which site you visit, you will see 8 tabs at the top of each site where you can see the sites as linked and which make clicking daily both easy and efficient. As you click the designated tabs 8 times, each time you are assured that 100 percent of sponsor money goes to each cause. You can click over and over on each tab, but only one click on each designated click button per day will actually release funds for each of the 8 causes. On each site, you can read stories and see photos about how needy people are being helped in so many ways and how your clicks make a difference. Want to do more than to just click? There is an online, comprehensive store, accessible no matter what site you are visiting. All funds from purchases made through online shopping made on this site go to the designated causes, so you can shop online here and make a difference! Also, at each site you will find many online petitions that are relevant to each cause. So even if you have no money, you can give your time at these sites and make a difference in many different ways! Here is where you can visit these sites: http://www.thehungersite.com, http://www.thebreastcancersite.com, http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com, http://www.theveteranssite.com, http://www.theautismsite.com,
http://www.thechildhealthsite.com, http://www.theliteracysite.com, http://www.therainforestsite.com.
          I don't want to give the wrong message here, that online, free (to you) clicking at certain websites replaces the offline serving, caring and sharing with those in need or the giving of one's material resources. I just want to show that you can do great good with your clicks and that if you are in an life situation where you feel that your ability to serve and give to others is limited, there are still options. And I know that there are some who will never trust click-to-give sites and are paranoid about what they click. This is understandable in light of the scams and viruses that are rampant online. If you wonder why clicks are limited, for the most part, to one daily click or in other ways limited? This is to prevent computer crashes and abuse and also because sponsors have limited funds for clicks. I know a number of you already click on some of these sites and good for you! I hope that because of this blog more people will be steered to what I feel are legitimate, quality click-to-give sites.