Raise Money to Plant Trees with your Blog Comments

PostReach ClickComments is a great way to get your blog more comments. Your readers can express their opinion with just one click! On top of that it also keeps readers on your blog longer by suggesting other posts that may interest them.

Even better than all that PostReach has also teamed up with mokugift to plant trees. For only $1 your readers can plant trees to save the planet.

Mokugift plants trees in Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mali, Senegal, Zambia, India, Philippines, and Haiti. It has partnered with Sustainable Harvest International and Trees for the Future to plant trees and build communities in tropical regions.

Fundraising with We Add Up

WE ADD UP is a fantastic organisation using organic cottom t-shirts to help stop global warming. Every shirt has a simple action you can take to help reverse climate change, and is printed with your own unique number in the sequential global count of everyone who is taking steps to help stop climate change. You choose which action you are committed to doing and get counted in.

"No one can do everything. Everyone can do something. And, WE ADD UP."

WE ADD UP also offers its great products to schools and non-profit organisations as a fundraiser. Your group earns 15% commission on sales that are directed to weaddup.com. You sign up online, receive your unique web link that tracks all the visitors you direct to our site, and are given banner ads to chose from to upload to your website. Easy!!

Take a look at WE ADD UP and start raising money for your non-profit AND saving the planet!!

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What it Takes to be a Great Fundraiser

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(Excerpted from Kathy LeMay's program, "7 Steps to Awakening the Bold, Big Dollar, Social Change Fundraiser Within!")

A few weeks ago I read an article by a fundraising consultant about how to stay motivated during difficult fundraising times. Included in this article was this sentence (which I am slightly paraphraising): "Fundraising can be demoralizing which means it's important to find ways to stay motivated and excited."

Fundraising can be demoralizing.

When I began fundraising I would have agreed with this fundraiser. There were times when I felt I was asked to pander to a donor, swallow my voice for the sake of "getting the gift", or say what needed to be said to keep a donor happy. I think I did this for about 10 minutes before I decided to be as authentic in my fundraising work as I was in programmatic work. I made a decision to trust the donor and trust that we both wanted to make a difference.

Fifteen years and more than $100 million raised from individuals later I know now what I think each of us knows intrinsically: leading with truth and authenticity builds real, lasting partnerships. This approach honors the donor, the fundraiser and the work and produces results.

Read the full article to find out how to begin fundraising from a place of truth, authenticity, hope and personal power.

Help NZ Children's Charities

Image via WikipediaSovereign Sunshine is a new initiative from Sovereign Insurance set up to raise money for New Zealand children's charities like Heart Children New Zealand and Make a Wish New Zealand among others.

Each month, six different children’s charities are shortlisted by Sovereign staff – and New Zealanders everywhere have the opportunity to vote for which of these charities will receive a donation of up to $15,000 from Sovereign.

Once you’ve registered, each month you vote you will go into the draw to win a cool monthly prize from a range featuring iPods, digital cameras and mobile phones.

Visit Sovereign Sunshine today and help kiwi kids!!

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Create an ammado giving circle

ammado is an online community set up to connect non-profits, individuals and companies that want to effect change at a global and local level.

Unlike similar communities such as Razoo, ammado is truly global in that non-profits do not have to be US based and registered. This means if you live outside the USA you can support your local sports club, favourite local charity organisation or local school. Of course, this also means there is a much wider range of non-profit organisations for Digital Philanthropists to choose from.

A recent press release sums up how it works:

Now fully live the ammado giving circle enables people from around the globe to conduct all their giving and cause-related activities from one central space. ammado members start their ammado giving circle by donating to one of the many participating nonprofits on ammado. The minimum contribution is €4, or its equivalent in 32 other currencies. Whatever the donor’s giving budget is, he can “slice and dice” or divide it between his favourite ammado nonprofits (charities, sports clubs, schools, universities), thus benefiting multiple organisations simultaneously. ammado members can also set up recurring donations from their profiles with the flexibility to change the recipients and the giving amount every month. Donating on ammado is not exclusive to ammado members, as non members can also make once-off donations through the platform.

All nonprofits, big or small, regional, national or international can join ammado for free. Amnesty International was one of the first to join. Colm Ó Cuanacháin former Chairperson of Amnesty International’s International Executive Committee, explains why: “ammado will change how people think about the web. It will be the fulcrum that all organisations, groups and individuals use for leverage to achieve their vision for the world. ammado will be a space where communities can organise, will provide the tools and techniques needed to campaign and the audiences and activists that can make change happen."

The community management team at ammado verifies that all nonprofits are who they say they are and that they adhere to the ammado Nonprofit Policy, so you can be sure that your donations go to the people you intended them for.

Save the Planet & Win

Image by focalplane via FlickrSave the Planet and Win are on a mission:

To reduce greenhouse gases in a fun way, so that anyone can obtain carbon offsets in order to minimize global warming and help fight climate change collectively, as well as supporting social responsibility on-demand initiatives, in order to build a better world.

And how are they making it fun?

Well, by offering you some choice rewards for viewing sponsors ads. Its kind of altruism meets consumerism.

Every time you view an ad at Save the Planet and Win you will:

- Neutralize your Carbon Footprint	- Earn real-live Cash
- Support Social Causes with Sponsor money	- Enter for a chance to win the Grand Cash Prize

Sign up is free - so join up, tell your friends and do good for the planet . . . and for you!

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The Next Best Thing to Owning a Dog

Image by storm_gal via FlickrIf you're a dog lover looking for a canine charity to support, take a look at 'The Next Best Thing to Owning a Dog' at Face to the Sun. Its a great article about how to choose a reputable organisation to donate to. Well worth a look!


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