http://www.guidedogs.org/

To give is to receive.

Not to get all meta-physical on ya or anything, but I’ve discovered a great organization through Kabballah.com. It’s Raising Malawi. I’m now giving 10% of everything I earn. And it seems to be coming right back to me. Since I’ve started doing this, I’ve had an unexpected surge in clients and more money just keeps flowing into my life while I support this worthwhile cause. here’s the link:

http://www.raisingmalawi.org/

cheers

George

Here in Burlington, Vermont the community is dedicated to providing a free Web video resume to every unemployed Vermonter who wants one.

What started as a idea on Twitter is now a real project with our first shooting date scheduled for August 29th, with another in September.

Thanks for helping shine a light on the need for Social Media (and Marketing) for a Common Good.

Details about our cause available at Video Resume VT

Here’s my favorite organization – they do such great things – one smile at a time – check out their videos and history… it takes so little to make a huge difference!!
The company I work for supports them too and we got to hear their founders last year at our convention. What moving stories they have to tell!

http://www.operationsmile.org/

I’ll use myself as an example here, since I haven’t clicked on the links (something I typically do AFTER I read a post like this) to your causes in this post yet. I thought is was a great post. I got excited and wrote my comment, then I went and contacted someone I know at CBF. I momentarily got sidetracked form your links, but I came back to check them out and now I’m sidetracked again :)

Anyway, my original comment was aimed more at the donations end of things, rather than the link clicking part . . . I agree that the difference in CTR sucks.

OK, I’m off to follow your links and check out all the others from the comments. Happy Weekend!

@Steve – Thanks!

@Tim – nice Tim, I was just saying, people don’t even click on links for the most part, that are about charities, or movements going on. It’s easy to get hundreds of clicks on a shortened URL to a youtube video, or some sort of viral content, but then when you send out something about movements, awareness, etc. people don’t even click! I don’t expect everyone to get involved in everyone else’s causes, but you don’t even have the time of day to click and read?

Here’s mine: Chesapeake Bay Foundation

I’m thinking I might just offer up some free SEO consulting to them because of this post (see the home page URL that is longer than their domain name). Otherwise, I’ll continue to fill my Kayak with man-made flotsam every time I’m out . . . and write posts like this whenever I can.

I also helped Annapolis Community Boating get that site up and answer WP questions for them whenever they come up.

Regarding our spheres of influence. It’s obvious from your post and from all the comments so far that everyone pretty much has their own voluntary thing going on (if you don’t you should). So I don’t think it’s shocking when there isn’t a good result (in the form of donations) when people try to tap their networks.

Every one of those attempts to tap a network, including this post, has the potential to remind people to DO SOMETHING. Whether it’s for the group somebody else is trying to pimp or for your own cause is fairly irrelevant if you ask me. Maybe I already donated money to YOUR cause this year, maybe I donated time and money to other causes that I care about more.

Don’t get discouraged if your online network doesn’t come through with donations; just keep on pimping your cause and realize that you’ve managed to make an impact, regardless of how much money you raise.

To DOING SOMETHING – Cheers!

Im a fan of the charities Kevin Bacon supports.

http://www.donatelifedayjax.com