Online Fundraising Efforts for Hurricane Katrina Victims Are Remarkable!
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Because of Hurricane Katrina hundreds of thousands of people are currently displaced. In the "old days," before the Internet, it would be nearly impossible, if you had a vacant place to donate, to know who to contact or how to connect with refugees. But, today there are numerous places where you can offer or find housing. For example, Yahoo.com has set up a special board just for this purpose at http://boards.news.yahoo.com/boards/. Another very popular place is Craigslist.org who has also set up a special page at http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/katrina_aid.html.
Practically every news service offers a list of charities that is safe to donate to (for example The New York Times has one at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/hurricane-resources.html )
One of the best places that I have found for a list of legit places to donate money, however, comes from NetworkForGood.org. They created a page that not only has the charities listed but also a donation button that has been set up for those charities so you can donate to any charity directly from their page. For more info see http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/animal_environ/hurricanes/ . On a smaller level anyone who has a website is joining in on the act and adding their own donation buttons. Some webmasters who are involved in affiliate marketing are even encouraged to do so by the biggest affiliate marketplace Commission Junction. Commission Junction (www.CJ.com) set up an easy way for webmaster to add a Red Cross graphic to their sites. Naturally, neither Commission Junction nor the webmaster receives any commission. You can see an example of such a graphic on the site www.Fundraisingmom.com. But doing even more, here is an example of a couple of internet marketers who built a whole site for this effort at www.helpwithkatrina.com. Not only will they work hard to get the money to the people who needs it most they pledged that they will kickback the 2.9% that PayPal charges for donations. So here, 100% of your donation will be used! Even people who don't have websites are joining in on this massive online Hurricane Katrina help effort. People who frequent online forums and newsgroups are creating their own incentives to encourage others to donate money. For example, at the warriorforum.com forum you can get a huge list of ebooks about internet marketing that would normally cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars to purchase, free, if you donate $50. Examples like these are popping all over the Internet. People have always banded together during a major crisis, but the ability to watch it unfold on a global level at your kitchen table is extraordinary! This is just another example of how the Internet has transformed the world into a "global village". So what are you waiting for? Become a member of this great village too and do your share! Non Profit Fund Raising Idea Offers a free, no up front cost fundraising program for non-profit organizations, this unique program lets your organization get money starting immediatley. Frustrated with the usual unorganized school fundraisers Suzanne Wouk turned to the internet in search of a better way. To her amazement and delight, she found so many new and exciting ways to fundraise that she started the site http://www.FundraisingMom.com in order to share the information and ideas with others. ExecSearches.com Executive, senior management and fundraising jobs in nonprofit, public sector and socially conscious organizations. You may reprint this article as long as it is in it's entirety including the bio. |
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