I read an excellent article by Lisa Johnson of Minnesota Council on Foundations on an initiative to allow people browsing the Internet & using search engines, to donate to their charity.

When you use GoodSearch to look up information on the Internet, you could help donate 50% of the advertising money raised by search engines, to a charity of your choice. You do not need to sign up or spend a cent. 

GoodSearch is powered by Yahoo! and the technology allows the searches to track and direct these search-generated proceeds to charities.

On the GoodSearch homepage, choose from thousands of organizations or add your favorite cause to our list. Search the Internet just like you normally would — the site is powered by Yahoo!, so you’ll get high-quality search results. Fifty percent of the revenue generated from advertisers is shared with the charity, school or nonprofit organization of your choosing. 

GoodSearch estimates that each Web search will generate approximately $0.01 for the designated charity or school (image, video and site-specific searches are not included). You can select the charities already listed on the website, or you could add your own charity organization too if you want.

Along with GoodSearch, the website also allows charity donations on Shopping through GoodShop.Every time you click on the partner merchants from the GoodShop site and then make a purchase, your charity or school earns money.

The website specifies searches that do not result in any donations.

“All of your searches will count toward donations except for the following:

1) image searches;

2) video searches;

3) “search this site” searches;

4) searches for URL’s (i.e., search terms ending in .com, .org, .net, .edu);

5) searches to sites for which the URL is well known such as HotMail, ESPN, MySpace, Facebook, GMail, AOL, etc.;

6) searches for stock quotes;

7) searches for word definitions, and

‘8) any searches generated from fraudulent use of the site.”
 

You could also help in spreading the news. And thanks to Lisa for writing about it on her blog too.

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