Charity

Sign up to be a Squidoo Charity!
Squidoo was designed to help you raise money (awareness too) for a worthy cause.
Squidoo is a free web platform that makes it easy for you (or your donors or anyone who supports your cause) to earn attention, day after day, by building useful, interesting, personalized web pages. We've found that attention also leads to you earning money. In this case, donations for your cause. In fact, Squidoo has donated over a million dollars to charity. And it works. Sometimes in big ways, sometimes in little ongoing ways. For example, in December 2011 our community's good writing e...

Squidoos Summer Sunshine Award for Charity
We're giving away $99 a day to charity, $99 a day in cash
It's summer (or close enough) and we at Squidoo always enjoy a good celebration and good causes. That's why this summer, for 60 days, we're giving away $99 a day to benefit charities. But that's not all. The lensmaster will receive $99 too. One winning lensmaster a day, every day for 60 days, will get $99. Finally: A way to do good AND get a little kickback for yourself too. That's right. Build a brand new lens on a topic of your choice, set the earnings to benefit your favorite Squidoo c...

Transfer This Lens Game
Welcome to the Transfer This Lens game
The idea with the Transfer the Lens game is to pass this lens on to as many lensmasters as possible. It's our very own Squidoo version of the "Hot Potato" game. All earning from this lens are being donated to charity, so every contribution to this lens helps! If you would like to play the game by contributing to this lens, just contact the current caretaker and say you would like to be next! Image credit: Purple Hibiscus by tealmermaid ~ used with permission

Which Charity Deserves $3,000?
Vote for your favorite cause
Our charities have been working hard! They're making lenses, promoting their cause, and rallying volunteer support for a great new project. In the last week, the charities below met our challenge to make 10 awesome new lenses! As a result, they've been entered in a special cash giveaway - the opportunity to win $3,000! Meet them, greet them, and vote for your favorite. And hurry - voting closes at 9pm EST on Tuesday, July 21st. We'll announce the winner on Wednesday! Image courtesy of gurd...

Win $3000 For YOUR Charity
Ten lenses could earn you $3000!
Money doesn't grow on trees, but with the help of your volunteers, you could be in the running for $3,000. As you know, Squidoo is a free platform that makes it easy for people to create useful pages about whatever interests them -- and earn a royalty for charity along the way. Last year alone we gave away hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to hardworking charities. This year is no exception, and as one of many ways we give away money, in July 2009 we're running a contest to give...

Ask a Charity Mentor
Are you part of a non-profit?
 Is your non-profit one of the groups in partnership with Squidoo? I hope so, it's a great opportunity to use the internet as a poweful tool for a charitable organisation. If your savvy non-profit has just taken the first step in seizing the advantages of Squidoo, then you'll soon be hearing from a mentor. Citizen Squids work as mentors in specific areas to provide solutions and help lensmasters, Charity Mentors help you along the way by working with you on your first step - your '...

Pastiche Charity Lenses
100% Charity Donations Lensography - My Squidoo Non-Profit Works of Heart
It feels great to help others, and Squidoo makes it easy for me to do that every month. As Pastiche on Squidoo I donate about 10% of my total earnings to charity from each pay period. The more my lenses earn, the more I donate to good causes. As of the December, 2011 payout my lenses have earned $5,680.80 in donations to charity. I've also donated additional amounts from my Squidoo earnings to offline causes and non-profits related to my lensmaster projects. Most of my lenses dedicate a por...

If You Give a Charity $3,000...
What would our charities do with $3,000?
The first step for each partner charity participating in our July 2009 $3,000 charity giveaway was to write in and tell us what they would do with $3,000. We were REALLY excited to read the results. Our partner charities can be quiet, but when you ask them what they need, they'll tell you! The projects these charities are working on are so effective, so efficient, so needed in our communities. Here are just a few things our charities would do with $3,000. Why not make a lens to support them...

Sample Charity Template Lens
Hi readers! We are _____, an organization dedicated to ______. Here's where we're putting more of our bio. And we won't forget to upload a photo! Psst! What is all this about? It's a mock charity lens. No, not a lens that mocks a charity, a lens that aligns modules and content how a charity might create a lens. Need a lens for your charity? Build it to match this one...with all your own info, of course. Image courtesy of Creative Commons and yovenice.