Lazy Philanthropist

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

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?

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!

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.

EcologyFund.com has many different buttons to click to save land, air. If you register even more stuff is saved.

 http://www.ecologyfund.com

Click to help feed the world

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1

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 

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 

 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 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/