Nine Digital Ways to Be a ‘Social Hero’ in 2012
In the digital world it is a lot easier to do something good for someone else. It’s still early enough in the year to get into new habits that benefit others and make you feel good about yourself. These days, you can make the effort with just a few clicks from your computer. The Internet and all the ways we can connect to it along with all the choices available online make it easier than ever to feel good about what you purchase and pay it forward. Get out your cape and get ready to be a social hero in 2012.
Feel Good About What You Buy
Good Guide allows you to check to see if the product you are purchasing is good for the environment. You can also see if the company making the product is socially and environmentally responsible and healthy. If you are not satisfied with what you learn, search a list of alternative products that make you feel better about your purchase.
Round Up for a Good Cause
Swipe Good allows you to set up a specific credit or debit card so that all purchases are rounded up the nearest dollar. You decide which charity benefits from your spare change. This is a great way to make a difference without the hassle of digging for spare change. You can associate different cards with different charities to spread the goodness around.
An Incentive to Maintain New Habits
We all make resolutions for the New Year — and break them before Valentine’s Day rolls around. DailyFeats is a great way to track your new habits (you choose the habit) and earn points for being successful at it. You can use the points to redeem rewards from a selection of national brands or make a donation to a charity of your choice.
Open an Online Savings Account
Open a savings account through ableBanking online. When you open a new account, you get $25 to donate to the charity of your choice. Each year you get more money to donate as you increase your account balance. By keeping it separate from your normal account, you are less likely to be tempted to withdrawal from it.
Help Out a New Charity
Find some new deals, save money and help a new charity at the same time. Philanthroper offers a decent selection of daily deals. Once you save a few bucks, take time to read about the featured charity. You can make a donation from $1 to $10.
Earn Points, Get Deals and Support a Good Cause
Sign up through The Mutual to pay $10 a month that can you donate to any of the five featured monthly charities on the site. You can choose to split the money between each charity or just select certain ones out of the five. For your efforts, you earn points that can used to get some deals from local businesses.
Use Your Skills for a Good Cause
Catchafire matches professionals with specific charities that require individuals with certain skills to help complete a project. You get to build your resume, make your business look better and help a charity out at the same time. It is a win-win situation all around.
Get the Giving Going Yourself
Crowdrise allows you to set a specific goal to raise funds for charity. Simply ask friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to help out and earn reward points. You get to interact with others promoting a cause too. This way you can cheer others on as they offer you tips and support in return.
Sell and Buy Stuff for a Good Cause
We all have some extra stuff we would like to get rid of. Why not thin out your closet for a good cause?
KarmaGoat is a local marketplace that lets you buy and sell items. It’s the same concept as similar sites, except that the proceeds benefit a particular charity that you get to choose yourself.
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Buy and sell is one the best ways that u can earn money online and get profit as well. so make sure that you do it properly
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Excellent work! Thanks for sharing.
I am always looking for ways to help out needy charities. I found the most interesting one in your list Catchafire. So I am going to see how I can help make a difference. There are so many people less fortunate that its nice to help out.
Really interesting article.I thought this will be a regular article when reading the title.But after reading the whole article i felt like really usefull.
helping out charities is one way to extend your help and blessings to the less fortunate ones. Especially those organizations and agencies that are not supported by the government. In this way you can help them with your simple efforts and also making others feel happy that someone is there caring for them.
Nice blog, love some of them will use them next time
this is one of the best example for shopping and other thing to check before you buy any thing
Incredible! This blog looks just like my old one! It’s on a completely different topic but it has pretty much the same page layout and design. Wonderful choice of colors! “. I bought some of these at PIJ! So cute! I’m going to buy more. I think there is still other merchandise. I have a great product here.