Posts Tagged with ‘charity’

Every year Blog Action Day unites bloggers around one topic to bring public attention and raise awareness of some of the most acute problems. Last year the problem discussed was environment and this year the topic chosen is poverty. All the bloggers are invited to participate on October 15th.
There are several ways to participate. The first and the most obvious one is to publish a post about poverty to discuss it from your point of view since the main idea [...]

Just about everyone has participated in some type of casual gaming by now, whether it's Scrabulous on Facebook, Bejeweled on PopCap, or you are a card-carrying member of Club Pogo. But Rezilio has come up with a way of making casual gaming less casual by creating Game for Charity.
With Game for Charity, Rezilio leverages two of the fastest growing online technologies: online charity donations and casual gaming. Charities can use Rezliio's technology to create an online tournament which users can [...]

Public schools receive funding from state, federal and local governments. Because funding depends on the whim of the public voter, it can fluctuate. While a school may receive enough funding in some years, they may fall short in other years. Catch Tomorrow has set its sights on helping remedy that situation.
Catch Tomorrow isn't the first site to offer funding for education. It is part of the Search Engine Corp network, though, which is the first search engine network [...]

Facebook is going through something of a rough patch at the moment. It’s getting heat from just about all sides for its “overreaching” Beacon advertising initiative, and as a result the site is now routinely hounded by a large number of bloggers and podcasters for, among other things, generally existing and occupying the tubes of the Web. Hey, it happens. You give people a reason to revolt, and, well, there’s a good chance they will.
Now we’ve heard the site’s [...]

I was out of town when I received this news, so it is a little late coming but significant enough for all of us to make an effort on. Tim Ferris, a NYT's Best Selling Author, just launched the largest online literacy and educational experiment ever attempted. LitLiberation, in conjunction with DonorsChoose.org and RoomtoRead, have set a goal to raise $1 million dollars in 30 days via mostly tech blogs. My friends at FutureWorks jumped in as have dozens of [...]

PRWEB, January 11, 2007 — GraffitiPad.com is selling advertising spots to fund a new program for college scholarships. According to the press release the site will sell “pixels” on their web site for $.49 cents each to fund the scholarship awards. Rainier Trinidad, the project’s creator, launched the funding program to expand the exposure his past philanthropic efforts have had. According to Trinidad, the Internet will help generate enough funding to finance 60 - $1000 scholarships per month, over a five year period.
Rising tuition [...]