“I’m Making a Difference”
Is Microsoft’s new campaign to get you to use their IM service. You download Windows Live Messenger, you choose a charity listed, and they will donate unspecified amount of money to that charity. The will not put a cap on the funds raised and each charity’s Microsoft Messenger page has a theme pack you can additionally download. The organizations Microsoft is helping are: American Red Cross, Boys and Girls Club, Humane Society, National Aids Fund, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NineMillon.org, Sierra Club, Stop Global Warming.org, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Unicef.
For more information- http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=IMDB_SponsoredPage
Donate your Airline Miles
You can donate your airline miles to the Fisher House. They help military service people and their families. If you donate during the Memorial Weekend, CNN will match the airline miles. For more information go here,
http://www.fisherhouse.org/programs/heroMilesDonate.shtml
If you aren’t gonna use them, why not donate them?
An Inconvenient Truth
From the Al Gore documentary: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/
A list of small things you can do to reduce the effects of “climate change”. Whether you believe in this stuff or not, most will probably reduce your electric bill. So help the world and yourself too!
Download Songs and Help People in Darfur
By downloading Working Class Hero by Green Day through iTunes, you will help people in Darfur Sudan.
Amnesty International is releasing an album of John Lennon covers to raise money for the Sudanese. More Information can be found at http://www.instantkarma.org/index.html
The Green Day song has been released early and is now available through iTunes. If you don’t have iTunes, the full album ( titled Instant Karma) will be released on June 12.
Save the Planet
EcologyFund.com has many different buttons to click to save land, air. If you register even more stuff is saved.
Feed The World
Click to help feed the world
http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1
Easiest way to give?
Have others do it for you. JustGive.org created a way for the engaged couple to add charities to their wedding registry. The couple signs up for the charities they wish to support and their guests can go onto the site to donate.
More Info: http://www.justgive.org/weddings/index.jsp
Stop Violence Against Women
The International Rescue Committee has a petiton to sign to tell congress to-
- Fund programs that prevent violence and respond to incidents of rape against women and girls
- Support efforts to help women and girls recover their dignity, health, livelihood, and families
- Include anti-sexual violence initiatives in relevant international assistance programs
Go here to sign the petition: http://ga3.org/campaign/stopviolence
Hug your mac for green
A green world that is. Greenpeace has a campaign where you write to Steve Jobs and take a picture of you hugging your mac to encourage Apple to “go green”. Consider this the new way to be a tree hugger.
More Info: http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/mact.html
Folding @ Home
Folding @ Home is a small program you install on your computer. It works in the background and helps Stanford University fold proteins. I don’t know much about science but this program is helping these awesome people to cure Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Huntington’s Disease, and others. For more info and to install the program go to http://folding.stanford.edu/
