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Have you seen charitable blogging?

Posted by DavidAirey • 5/01/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: blog, blogging, charity, donate, donation

Do you know of any successful blogs that raise funds for charity?

I want to emulate the best bits (if I'm able to) on a new project and I'd love your help.

As far as I'm aware, charities and blogs haven't had much linking, but perhaps you know better?

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5/01/07

Anniepooh

www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/

Some info there...other than that, I'd have to look and get back to you!

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5/01/07

DavidAirey

Excellent Anniepooh,

Thanks for taking the time.

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5/01/07

jerseiko

David,

What kind of project are you working on? That's a neat concept, blogging for charity.

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5/01/07

jphillips

Hey Dave, well i know a couple blogs take donations and give to charity, daveolson.ca is one i visit often that raises funds to give to kiva.org, i also have a paypal donation button on my about page, and give all that money to charity.

Hope it helps

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5/01/07

DavidAirey

It's a new blog called Clicks Donate, currently in its infancy:

clicksdonate.com

I want to do something to give back, and will donate 100% of all proceeds to the charities that the readers choose.

If you have any suggestions they'd be extremely welcome.

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5/01/07

DavidAirey

You guys are fast at replying! I can see the advantage of Blogcatalog already, having just signed up!

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1. 5/01/07
  
  lafrance
  
  Take a look at Joomla as it as all the component for donation some are free others are paid plugins.
  Pierre
5/01/07

DavidAirey

Thanks Pierre,

I'm looking into the concept through WordPress before a possible move to Joomla. I haven't worked with that before so it'd add considerably more time to the project.

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5/01/07

jerseiko

neat idea, david.

i was reading through the about section and caught a typo. you misspelled advertising:
"Finally, theres some adverting from Google around this site click on any of it and your donation is complete"

just a headsup.

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1. 5/01/07
  
  DavidAirey
  
  Thanks a lot for that. I'll change it now.
5/01/07

ThePopulist

I've got a couple widgets I've made for various charities. ASPCA, Montana Met Project, Sucide Prevention Hotline, Global Warming, One Project. I don't write about it as a rule, but the widgets are there to bring awareness to the charities.

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1. 5/01/07
  
  DavidAirey
  
  Wow, you have so many widgets in your two sidebars that I didn't know where to look!
  
  Do you get many donations through them?
5/01/07

ThePopulist

I have no idea if the charities do or not. I never see the money. I have yet to get a donation via paypal.

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5/01/07

gosmelltheflowers

This is a great topic as we're just starting up our foundation where 50% of all cash raised through our flower and book selling n smelling website & blog will go to a worthy cause, still to be decided...

CSR / charities and communities are on the up for sure, just look at the amount of sharing through blogcatalog! Thank you 2 all.

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5/01/07

kMadison

I have 4 charities listed on my blog. Vietnam Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans Health Systems and Monroe Animal League where a percentage of all sales go. I am a fairly new blogger but have had some play. Great idea to list charites. Every little bit helps. Altogether it will make a difference to someone's life. Nice topic. Maybe we can all hget together and link for charity somehow?

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5/01/07

kMadison

I have 4 charities listed on my blog. Vietnam Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans Health Systems and Monroe Animal League where a percentage of all sales go. I am a fairly new blogger but have had some play. Great idea to list charites. Every little bit helps. Altogether it will make a difference to someone's life. Nice topic. Maybe we can all get together and link for charity somehow?

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6/21/08

lvs

charitable blogging is something we should really have more of

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