Donating Money Without Spending A Cent
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Donating Money Without Spending A Cent
By Jeffrey Strain
Even if you don't have a penny to your name, it's still possible
help your favorite causes. All that's required of you is a
simple click of a mouse. By visiting "free click" donation
sites, you can give money to a charity by clicking a special
button and viewing advertisers. Best of all, your donation won't
cost you a single cent.
Whether your interest is in helping to save the big cats of the
world to clearing land mines in war ravaged countries, there is
a charity out there simply waiting for you to visit. There are
currently over 50 of these free click sites to choose from.
Most of the programs work in a similar way. You click a button
(usually limited to one click per day) which will bring up a new
page with a number of sponsored advertisement buttons. By simply
looking at these advertisements, the advertisers make a small
donation toward the cause. It's that simple.
Although most charity sites don't require a visit to the
sponsor's site, the charity sites encourage you to visit their
sponsors for the simple reason that the more successful the
advertising is for the sponsors, the more likely the advertisers
will continue sponsoring the charity involved. There are also a
few sites where the cause will earn even more money if you click
through to the advertiser's site.
Most sites are geared to a single, specific cause. Most of the
free click sites fall under one of the four main themes: the
environment, poverty, medical and animals. There are also a few
that are geared to causes that fall outside these themes.
While most people find all the causes worthwhile, very few
donate to all of them. This is because although visiting all the
sites doesn't cost you any money, it does cost you time. Taking
the time to visit a site, click in the donation button and then
moving on to the next site is time consuming and can take about
an hour to navigate to all of them each day.
The simple solution to this was to create bulk donators. The
bulk donators allow you to make a free click donation to a
number of similar sites with a single click instead of many.
This allows you to click on all of the sites in less than five
minutes instead of taking an hour or more.
While there are a number of these bulk donators available, it's
important to understand how they work as the abuse of them can
end up hurting the charities. If you decide to use a bulk
donator, then you should also visit a few of the advertisers.
This will ensure that the advertisers will continue to support
the charities while still saving you a large amount of time.
What could be better? Free click donation sites don't cost you a
cent and you'll be helping many needy causes in the process.