20+ Charity & Fund Raising Tools

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With the holiday season rapidly approaching, many people's minds turn to charity and fundraising. We've found 20+ ways to help you give your time, money, run your own campaign, or even donate simply by conducting everyday tasks like search.

Charity & Volunteering

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BringLight.com - A central hub for charities to post information about themselves and get donations. All listed charities are certified.

CareBadges.com - A similar concept to all the rubber bracelets of the past few years, put a CareBadge on your social profile or website, and raise awareness of your favorite cause and get people to donate.

ChangingThePresent.org - A collection of charities from around the world for all types of causes.

DonorsChoose.org - A national site for teachers to list the things they need for the classrooms and try to find people to help them raise the money to get it.

Nabuur.com - Online volunteering. Tell them what your skills are and they will try to find a project you fit in with.

SchoolKidsComeFirst.com - Just for Seattle, WA area schools, but teachers submit proposals for what they ned, and people can donate to fund it.

SixDegrees.org - Kevin Bacon's idea to turn the infamous game based on him in to a way to raise money for charity.

VolunteerMatch.org - Enter your location and find volunteering opportunities in your area.

Fundraising

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ContributionManager.co.uk - A site to help charities in the UK keep track of all their donations and file the proper paperwork.

EasySponsorship.com - A site to set up information on sponsoring you in various charity events like bike rides and marathons.

eTapestry.com - Donor tracking software for groups of any size.

FirstGiving.com - A site for promoting any nonprofit fundraising event, and includes things like getting sponsors for marathons, bike rides and so on.

Fundraisera.com - Allows you to allow run online personal, political, nonprofit, church, schools and sports fundraisers.

GiveMeaning.com - Online fundraising that allows people to rate your information, credibility and more.

Network For Good - A system for running your online fundraising and keep track of everything in one place.

Pledgie.com - Set up fundraising for just about any cause you can think of, even if it's just yourself.

WildApricot.com - Management software for fundraising and nonprofit groups.

Search Engines

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CatchTomorrow.com - Select the school district you want funds to go to, and set up your start page and searches. 50% of all ad funds go to the school of your choice.

EveryClick.com - A UK based charity-giving search engine that lets you chose the charity you wish to support.

GoodSearch.com - A search engine that uses Yahoo results to power it. 50% of all ad revenue goes to charities of your choice.

GoodTree.com - A mixture of social network and search engine, a portion of all advertising revenue goes to charity.

MagicTaxi.co.uk - A UK based search engine that gives 50% of their ad revenue to a daily charity, or you can pick just one as your favorite.

Ripple.org - Click on an ad to donate to charity or do some searches and a portion of the ad proceeds will go to charity.

Searchgive.com - Pick your favorite charity, and then a portion of the ad revenue generated while you search goes to them.