How you can give to charity regularly and easily
Though we’re far from Christmas and it’s not time to buy those Girl Scout cookies, I’m still finding ways to make charitable giving part of my life. I know that most of you reading the Lavender Log have values of service and contribution that you want to express, so I want to make it easy for you to do so. Below I’ve highlighted a handful of ways that you can easily make charity part of your daily habit.
Click for a good cause
If you’re at your computer on a regular basis, make your first stop one of these webpages. Simply by clicking on their “give” button you make a positive impact. Corporate sponsors make the actual donations based on the number of “click donations” from each site, so the only cost to you is your time and the click of a button.
The Animal Rescue Site — Provide free food to animals in shelters. As a momma to five wonderful cats, I made the Animal Rescue Site my homepage over 5 years ago and have clicked almost daily since that time.- The Hunger Site — Your click helps funds organizations that provide food for hungry people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.
- The Breast Cancer Site — Clicking here allows you to help provide mammograms for low-income, inner-city and minority women whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited. Having a mom who died from breast cancer makes this one of the most important sites I visit daily.
- The Child Health Site — Help fund simple and very effective preventatives and treatments with the goal of robust child health around the globe.
- The Literacy Site — When you click at this site, you help provide free books for children.
The Rainforest Site — Clicking here funds the purchase of rainforest land by The Nature Conservancy, The Rainforest Conservation Fund, The World Parks Endowment, and The Friends of Calakmul. These organizations work to preserve rainforest land in Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and other locations worldwide.
Tamponification — This site provides tampons and sanitary pads to women’s shelters. They’ve been inundated by the response to their efforts and have temporarily suspended taking donations (as of March 12, 2007). However, I urge you to bookmark this site so you can come back and give as soon as they’re ready.
“Service rests on the basic premise that the nature of life is sacred, that life is a holy mystery with an unknown purpose. When we serve, we know that we belong to life and to that purpose.”
There are so many people and places in need in our world, that the least we can do is to take some action daily to show we care. I hope you will make supporting these organizations part of your daily routine.
If you know of other great websites where we can express our charitable and generous nature, please post a link in the comments section so we can support other organizations and initiatives as well.
Thanks for living your values and being of service in our world!
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