Lazy Philanthropist

If you use this site to send your mom an e-card, $1 will be donated to help fight women’s heart disease.

http://www.toasttomom.com/send-etoast.html

Toast mom and save a heart or two.

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

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/