GoodSearch Does Good for Your Charity

"We all have a cause we care about - whether it's finding a cure for cancer, saving the environment, finding homes for abandoned pets or so many other worthwhile endeavors. But what we don't all have is the time or money to support these efforts as much as we'd like. So, what if we could raise money for our favorite charities and schools by doing something we do every day - searching the Internet?

That's the question Ken Ramberg (the former founder of JOBTRAK, now a division of Monster.com) and JJ Ramberg (an MSNBC anchor and the former Director of Marketing at Cooking.com) asked themselves a few years ago. After realizing what a fraction of the $6 billion generated annually by search engine advertisers could do if it were directed towards organizations trying to make the world a better place, they launched GoodSearch in 2005.

GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. It's a simple and compelling concept. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it's powered by Yahoo!, you get proven search results. The money GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers - the users and the organizations do not spend a dime!"

www.goodsearch.com

I learned about this site through a list serve to which I belong. Through GoodSearch we are now earning money for the Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation (Essay below).

The site is simple to use. Today I saw that 34,000 non-profits are on-board and 100 are joining daily. Save Darfur has earned $1,950 and the ASPCA has earned $2,800.

I typed in Sjogren's Syndrome and learned since inception $92.40 has been raised. That's not a lot but it's a start. I put the site on my toolbar and am using it for all my searches. The site gives you ways to spread the word.