Tag: DONATION

In just a day and a half, the massive virtual populations of Zynga's FarmVille, CityVille, and FrontierVille have donated more than $1 million in aid for victims of the natural disasters in Japan. Zynga has added special virtual goods to several games which players can purchase to donate funds. It's a very clever use of in-game purchases, and one even the most jaded of FarmVille detractors ...

The foundation behind Wikipedia, Wikimedia, has reached its goal of $16 million in donations, more than doubling the $7.5 million raised in 2009. Over half a million people donated for an average donation of around $22. The donations are for one purpose: to keep Wikipedia ad-free, and having reached its goal, Wikipedia remains the only top-10 site on the Web that is free of ads and funded ...

If you're doing a lot of holiday shopping online this year, and you're looking for a painless way to give something back to your favorite charity, consider installing the Browse for a Cause Firefox extension. Instead of asking for donations directly, Browse for a Cause adds affiliate codes to sites like Amazon, and then donates the affiliate fees to the charity or charities you select. That way, ...

Mozilla's add-on repository recently added a new feature that might make the developers of popular Firefox extensions very happy: a tip jar. Nobody's charging users to download add-ons, but at least the option is there to reward the (mostly) unsung heroes behind some of the software we use every day. Add-ons aren't really the most glamorous or profitable arena in software development, but ...

The "Consider the Environment" meme spread across email signatures like wildfire, and now Reply for All is hoping they can accomplish the same thing. Their service inserts an advertising-supported signature into your GMail or Yahoo Mail messages that supports a charitable cause of your choosing. Currently, there are eight choices: AIDS prevention, cancer research, children's rights, animal ...

Microsoft is expanding that successful I'm Initiative we heard about last year to include Hotmail. The company started the I'm Initiative in 2007's March and has so far raised nearly $1.5 million to give to charities. The "service" makes using Microsoft's services -- specifically Hotmail and Messenger -- beneficial to several causes. Microsoft shares a portion of its advertising revenue ...

You might turn to Facebook to see what your friends are up to, organize a party, or just waste some time. But a non-profit group has decided to try to leverage the social networking site for another cause: to find blood donors. Despite the fact that thousands of people give blood every day, there are constantly shortages of blood. People keep getting sick and injured, and donated blood has a ...

When Jammie Thomas got slapped with a $220,000 judgment by a jury friendly to the recording industry, the entrepreneurs at a little company called ChipIn had no idea how much free publicity they were going to receive. That's because Jammie is using their donation-tracking widget to raise money for her legal defense. ChipIn lets you park their widget in your web site, MySpace page, and so on, ...

Adobe will be generously donating some code that will allow JavaScript programs to run within Firefox. This new donation will form the Tamarin Project, a new initiative with developers from both Adobe, and Mozilla. The code in question is called the ActionScript Virtual Machine, and is used to run scripts inside the Adobe Flash Player 9. The new code integration is expected to be fully integrated ...

Google is full of cash that they have to offload. Perhaps just for tax purposes, but also just to be good and give back to the community that gave them so much. What better place to give a nice wad of cash to then the Creative Commons (CC) during their annual fundraising campaign? Creative Commons is a little non-profit organization that helps creators of original content retains their licensing ...

Over on his blog Lawrence Lessig, chairman of the Creative Commons board of directors, writes, "At 12:30pm, an envelope from Redmond appeared at the Creative Commons office. Inside, a check for $25,000. From Microsoft." The check, which arrived on December 30, put the organization well over their $225,000 fundraising goal for 2005. Though $25,000 is pocket change to Microsoft, it's still ...