| Active Distributed Computing Projects - Charity |
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Mathematics Art Puzzles/Games Miscellaneous Distributed Human Projects Collaborative Knowledge Bases Charity See the bottom of this page for a description of the icons on the page. |
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Click a button at the hunger site to give food for free to hungry people around the world. You may click the button once per day to give 1.1 cups of staple food. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register. In 2002 the project funded 47,919,670
cups (about 2,717 metric tons) of food.
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ongoing: follow the Daily Results link on the main page to see the current stats |
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Click a button at the rainforest site to preserve rainforest around the world. You may click the button once per day to fund the preservation of 11.4 square feet (1.1 square meters). The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register. In 2002
the project preserved 246,852,687 square feet (22,934 square kilometers) of
land.
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ongoing: follow the Daily Results link on the main page to see the current stats |
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Click a button at the breast cancer site to help fund mammograms for free to needy women around the world. You may click the button once per day to help fund mammograms. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register. In 2002 the project
provided mammograms for 1,624 women in need.
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ongoing: follow the Daily Results link on the main page to see the current stats |
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Click a button at the animal rescue site to provide food for rescued animals is animal shelters or sanctuaries. You may click the button once per day to fund one bowl of food for a rescued animal. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register.
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ongoing: follow the Daily Results link on the main page to see the current stats |
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Click a button at the child health site to help prevent life-threatening diseases, restore vision to blind children, and enable child amputees to walk. You may click the button once per day. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register. In
2002 the project helped 191,013 children in need.
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ongoing: follow the Daily Results link on the main page to see the current stats |
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Click a button at
The Literacy Site to help
promote literacy. This project is partnering with
First Book to give books to children
from low-income families in the U.S. Each click provides 1% of a book. You
may click the button once per day. The program costs you nothing (it is
paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to
register.
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ongoing: follow the How You're Helping link on the main page to see the current stats |
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Click a button at
Care2's Race for the Rainforest to
save 23.4 square feet (2.2 square meters) of endangered rainforest, marine
wetlands, or American prairie. All donations from the program go to
The Nature Conservancy. You may click
the button once per day to help preserve endangered land. The program costs
you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you
do not need to register. The program is run by
Care2.
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ongoing: 452,253 racers have supported 235,962,015 sq. ft. (21,921,588 sq. meters) as of April 13, 2004 |
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Click a button at
Care2's Race for the Big Cats to
save 0.3 acres (1,214 square meters) of habitat for endangered tigers, jaguars
and snow leopards. You may click the button once per day to help preserve
endangered land. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the
companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register. The
program is run by Care2.
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ongoing: 226,943 racers have supported 21,125 sq. miles (54,714 sq. Km) as of April 13, 2004 |
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Click a button at
Care2's Race for the Ocean
to fund donations for Oceana's
ocean protection network. You may click the button once per day to help
preserve protect the world's oceans. The program costs you nothing (it is
paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to
register. The program is run by Care2.
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ongoing: 64,915 Racers have swum 36,900 miles (59,385 kilometers) as of April 13, 2004. See daily kilometers swum |
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Click a button at
Care2's Climb Against Breast
Cancer to help eliminate environmental causes of breast cancer. You
may click the button once per day to help this cause. The program costs you
nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do
not need to register. The program is run by
Care2.
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ongoing: see daily donations |
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Click a button at
Care2's Race for the Primates to
generate donations to Jane Goodall's primate protection programs at the
Jane Goodall Institute.
You may click the button once per day to help protect endangered primates.
The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor
the site) and you do not need to register. The program is run by
Care2.
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ongoing: 53,479 Racers have fed 4,713,501 pieces of fruit as of April 13, 2004. See daily donations |
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Click a button at
Care2's Race for Pets in Need
to generate donations to help The Humane
Society of the United States "provide spay and neuter services,
vaccinations, and check-ups for pets in need."
You may click the button once per day to help pets in need. The program costs
you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you
do not need to register. The program is run by
Care2.
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ongoing: 46,264 Racers have supported 3,238,625 pets as of April 13, 2004. See daily donations |
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Click a button at
Care2's Race for Children in Need
to generate donations to help Children
International provide assistance to children and families in need.
Currently the organization hwlps children in Chile, Colombia, the Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Kenya,
Zambia and the United States. Race for Children in Need sponsors 13 children
each month (it sponsors each child for one month). You may click the button
once per day to help children in need. The program costs you nothing (it is
paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to
register. The program is run by Care2.
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ongoing: 30,140 Racers have supported children for 1,117,172 days as of April 13, 2004. See daily donations |
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Click a button at
Care2's Race to Stop
Violence Against Women to generate donations to help
Amnesty International stop violence
against women. You may click the button once per day to help stop violence
against women. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies
which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register. The program is run
by Care2.
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ongoing: 3,353 Racers have sent 4,812 letters as of May 15, 2004. See daily donations |
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Click buttons at
EcologyFund.com to do the following
things:
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ongoing: 52.9 square miles (13,553 hectares) saved |
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 Click the STOP! button at die
Waldseite to help save rainforests. The site is only available in
German, but babelfish provides a
reasonable translation. Click on the project links near the bottom of the
page to see short descriptions of the projects this site supports. Click on
the STOP! button when each project's information is displayed to help that
project. The projects are as follows:
The counter near the top of the page displays the number of square meters of rainforest which have been destroyed since you loaded the page. |
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Shop online through
iGive.com and donate a percentage of your purchases (up to 27%) to your
favorite charity.
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ongoing: see donations sent in the last 120 days |
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Shop online through
KlickDieSpende.de, "click the donation," and donate a percentage of your
purchases to charities. The site is only available in German, but
babelfish provides a reasonable
translation. Click on banner ads at the site to donate to the cause listed
below each banner ad (a small amount is donated just for clicking on the ad).
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Find links to many click-to-donate sites at
DonationJunction.com.
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Click a button at
Wildglobe.com to save Mexican
Rainforest (the
Calakmul Biosphere Reserve). You may click the button once per day to
save 4.4 square feet of land. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for
by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register.
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 Click a button at
SolvePoverty to help educate
disadvantaged youth. The project funds grassroots projects for "computers,
scholarships, ICT Centres, training and connectivity leading to job creation
for disadvantaged youth internationally." You may click the button once per day
to donate €0.05. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the
companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register.
So far the project has raised AU$390,000.00. |
933,017 clicks (goal is 1 million) |
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Click the "Click Here!" link at
PovertyFighters to help give
poor families the chance they need to work out of poverty. The project donates
money to microcredit charities around the world. These charities loan poor
families money to start small businesses. You may click the link once per day
to add $0.25 to the next self-employment loan. The program costs you nothing
(it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need
to register.
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ongoing: $107,400.00 donated so far | N/A | |
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Click a button at
End Homelessness Now to help
"raise awareness, funds and activism for social justice issues/projects
recognizing homelessness as one end result of specific societal problems such
as domestic violence and the war on drugs and general societal problems such
as sexism and racism." You may click the button once per day: for each click,
the site's sponsors will each pay $0.005 to the project. The program costs
you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you
do not need to register.
See the Donation Totals page to see which social justice and homeless support organizations and homeless shelters the project has funded. |
ongoing: 784,249 total clicks | N/A | |
 Click
a link at Land Care Niagara to
help plant a tree to restore Niagara's ecosystem (in Ontario, Canada). Every
5 clicks plants 1 tree. You may click the link once per day to help plant a
tree. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for "by the Ontario Ministry
of Natural Resources through the Canada-Ontario Agreement") and you do not
need to register.
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ongoing: 893,343 total donations |
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Click
a link at The Stop HIV Site to
help "raise money for AIDS treatment as well as research and development for
cures and vaccines." You may click the link once per day to help stop HIV.
The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor
the site) and you do not need to register.
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ongoing: 893,343 total donations as of Septemeber 17, 2004 |
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Click
a button at giveaminute.org to give
a minute of hospital care to a patient in The Tarahumara Children's Hospital,
a hospital which serves the Tarahumara Indian tribe near El Paso, Texas. The
program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the
site) and you do not need to register.
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ongoing: 66,070 hours as of Septemeber 17, 2004 |
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 Click
a button at
Ett klick för skogen (A Click For The Forest) to help save the last
remaining old growth forests in Sweden. The project hopes to collect 1,000,000
SEK (about $147,000 (US)) by June, 2005, to buy and protect a forest in
Årrenjarka in the northern part of Sweden. The site is available in
English and Swedish. Each
click saves between 20 and 85 square centimeters (up to 13 square inches) of
forest. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which
sponsor the site) and you do not need to register.
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180,948.36 SEK collected, 45,237 square meters preserved as of December 21, 2004 |
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