Fun & Easy Ways to Support Worthy Causes While You Surf the Web

Non-profits and charity organizations are using the power of the Internet to promote their causes in innovative ways. Simple things that we already do when we’re online, like playing a game, conducting a Web search, or installing a toolbar can also be ways to give back. You can help with just a click of your mouse!

Games:

FreeRice: Answer trivia questions, and for each correct response, they will donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.

Food Force: Benefitting the United Nations Food Programme, this is a downloadable  game based on the same premise as FreeRice.

Hope Arcade: Play games, make a difference! This site provides a variety of free and paid, online and downloadable games. 70% of all net profits are donated to March of Dimes.

Mission Pneumonia: Take a seven question quiz about pneumonia. Tweet or post the questions to Facebook to spread the word, and play with the interactive map. Mission Pneumonia is brought to you by Save the Children.

Make Time for Change: Frigidaire and Jennifer Garner have teamed up to support Save the Children. Play Spin and Win to be entered to win a number of awesome daily prizes and have a chance for the monthly grand prize, a Frigidaire washer and dryer.

Clicks:

CharityUSA.com operates a number of websites where your clicks benefit causes like Breast Cancer research. Visit one site and easily access the others through the tabs at the top of the page.

Small Things Challenge: Simply click the big orange button, and Intel will donate 25 cents to Kiva.org and Save the Children.

Search/Add-ons:

Good Search: Enter the charity or school you support, click verify, and then use the search engine like you normally would. They will donate to the cause for every search. Update: Good Search now has plugins and toolbars for your Web browser!

Green: A Firefox add-on that uses money from the usual ads you see on webpages to finance the development of clean energy sources. You can fight global warming while you browse.

The Save Darfur Toolbar: Download this toolbar to your Web browser and raise money for Save Darfur every time you use the search feature, at no cost to you.