GoodSearch: a Tool for Internet Advocacy

Here is something relatively new in internet advocacy, the search engine fundraiser. I have come across a few similar cases where simply using a site's search engine would help generate money for a chairty or non-profit. I find this simply amazing and a fantastically simple way for people to help a cause. I think using a search engine site to generate funds is particularly great because it gives people an opportunity to help raise $$ even when they are strapped for cash.

Any registered non-profit can contact GOODSEARCH, this includes schools, charities, hospitals and clinics, political groups, professional associations, volunteer services and so many more...maybe yours!

If your organization is not already listed on the homepage as their Charity of the Day, you can type the cause or charity of your interest in and see if it is has set up an account. Once you discover the cause or charity you are interested in does have an account with GOODSEARCH, you can see how much money they have raised.

Right now, the charity of the day is the Children Affected by Aids Foundation. I discovered GOODSEARCH in a RESULTS Global Weekly Update.

RESULTS is an nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to ending poverty and hunger. An account has been set up on GOODSEARCH that will raise funds for the RESULTS Education Fund.

The following message was included in my Weekly Update, if you would like more information on how you can help get RESULTS in the war on poverty, sign up for the newsletter. I like this group because they give great tips on how to write effective letters to the editor or to political representatives. The new GOODSEARCH fundraiser is another good example of the simple, do-able ideas they have.

Use GoodSearch to Fund RESULTS!
"Now RESULTS can earn a penny every time you search the Internet! GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it’s powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results.

Just go to http://www.goodsearch.com/ and enter RESULTS Educational Fund as the charity you want to support. You can also download the GoodSearch toolbar for your browser to make it even easier to use. Just 250 of us searching four times a day will raise about $3600 in a year without anyone spending a dime.

Please broadcast this message to your personal networks, asking them to use GoodSearch and raise money for our work. Just cut and paste this entire message and send it to your contacts — and we will all be taking one more step to make poverty history!"
--RESULTS Global Weekly Update — October 30, 2006