Saturday, 1 November 2008

the Big Give

theBigGive.org.uk is a free to use website that helps major donors find high-level charity projects in their field of interest. Any registered UK charity may register and post their projects on the site. The Big Give is the fast and discreet way for modern donors to find effective charities in their field of interest.

http://www.thebiggive.org.uk/

Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Intelligent giving


Intelligent Giving aims to raise public interest in charitable giving and advises donors how to make the most satisfactory use of their money. It seeks to bring its findings to as wide a readership as possible, employing chatty and casual English on its website and issuing timely press releases of charity-related material.
The central feature of Intelligent Giving’s website is a charity ratings service. In 2005-2006 it researched and rated over 500 UK charities and listed a further 1000.

http://www.intelligentgiving.com/

Sunday, 12 October 2008

Modest Needs

Modest Needs was conceived, built and still operates on simple concept — a small investment to help an individual or a family with a utility bill, rent check or health-care invoice reaps huge rewards if it keeps its recipient employed or prevents an eviction.
So Modest Needs cuts small checks to people in short-term straits. The goal is to keep the recipient self-sufficient and off public assistance.
The average Modest Needs grant is $180, and the organization won't give any single applicant more than $1,000. But Taylor estimates that the $234,000 Modest Needs has given out since its inception has saved its recipient families about $7.7 million in possible lost income.

http://www.modestneeds.org/

Friday, 10 October 2008

Squidoo

Squidoo is a website designed to make it easy for anyone, for free, to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses—single pages that highlight one person's point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. Advertising revenue is shared with content creators. Nearly 50% of all Squidoo users donate the royalties they earn from the site to charity.

http://www.squidoo.com

Wednesday, 24 September 2008

PatientsLikeMe


Our goal is to enable people to share information that can improve the lives of patients diagnosed with life-changing diseases. To make this happen, we've created a platform for collecting and sharing real world, outcome-based patient data (patientslikeme.com) and are establishing data-sharing partnerships with doctors, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, research organizations, and non-profits.

http://www.patientslikeme.com

Sunday, 10 August 2008

socialmarkets

Socialmarkets is a big idea, and deserves a fair amount of elbow room to describe. Reduced to its simplest terms, socialmarkets is a site which selectively applies the market model to the social sector, and supports the web-based community around that application. We would like to fill in some of the larger holes left in the socialmarkets fabric by such simplicity.
For starters, there is our vision of an ideal outcome of the socialmarkets enterprise: the foundation of a true social capital marketplace. We believe such an outcome is only possible through the measurement of both social good and the risk involved in its creation. We know that such an outcome is only possible with the cooperation of both those who create social good and those who invest in them.

http://www.socialmarkets.org

Monday, 21 July 2008

Kaioo

kaioo is a non-profit social network website that started in November 2007 as a beta version in English and German. kaioo offers its users standard features of social networking websites. They can create profiles, communicate with friends, join groups, upload pictures, etc.
The unique feature of kaioo is that all advertising revenues are donated to charities. Users can form and join groups favoring specific charities, and the ten charities with the largest groups receive donations at the end of the year, proportional to their support among the kaioo users. The operating costs of the sites are covered by donors.

http://www.kaioo.com