If you stick to a sensible burger policy and just have one as an occasional treat, then this Saturday would be a good day: it’s McHappy Day, meaning $2 from each Big Mac sold goes to Ronald McDonald House Charities. Probably beats making your own on a weekend. [McHappy Day]
Our international sister publication Lifehacker Japan has highlighted a list of charities and other organisations, assembled by one of its translators, where you can donate or buy goods to help the Japanese people in the wake of the ongoing earthquake/tsunami/nuclear crisis. Hit the link for the full list (in English — the text-based donation numbers are US-specific, so ignore them). [greenz.jp] More »
If you’re proud of a product, you tend to tell all your friends about it. Rec.fm makes use of that impulse by donating money to your charity of choice every time your friends buy a product you recommend on Twitter or Facebook. More »
Google is launching the YouTube Nonprofit Program in Australia, letting eligible charities and other non-profit organisations set up their own YouTube channels to promote their work. More »
Human depravity really knows no bounds — scammers have been quick to set up fake charity sites to try and divert funds from bushfire relief efforts. Scumbags. The ACCC Scamwatch site has a useful guide to how to identify scams, along with a link to charities that are actually above the level via Consumer Affairs Victoria. More »
GiveDo.com offers an interesting twist on fundraising for charities: it creates customised search pages that use Google to deliver results and advertisements, but with income from people clicking on the advertisements goes directly to the charities. This relies on persuading people to change their default search provider, but that’s not a particularly big step for a cause you already support. One potential improvement: for Australian charities, it would be nice for the app to source results from Google Australia (which tends to order results differently), rather than the main Google site. Like previously-mentioned MyPetNeedsLove, the site is a result of the recent StartupCamp Sydney II event.
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