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Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "feed an animal in need" for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Set a calendar reminder to this every day! Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
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Origins: Over
the last few years we've seen many a purportedly altruistic appeal circulate on the Internet, each one claiming you could donate money to a worthy cause or right some terrible injustice no cost to you by taking some simple action, such as forwarding an message. (See our
page for one example.) Most of these messages have been hoaxes, but occasionally a few real ones spring up.
At
, you can "donate" clicks towards the provision of food for abused, neglected, and abandoned animals in shelters and sanctuaries.
Sponsors become involved with this site (and others like it) as a form of advertising and public relations and thus are willing to pay for their messages to be viewed by consumers. They pay CharityUSA.com, the parent entity of the site, on a per-click basis; CharityUSA.com directs a percentage of the total ad revenue collected towards animals shelters and sanctuaries and keeps the remaining funds. (The Animal Rescue Site is not a non-profit entity, so it shouldn't be confused with a charity even though it does direct a significant portion of its revenues to those in need. It exists to make a profit, and that it's still around proves it's succeeding at it.)
CharityUSA also allows visitors to initiate donations to several other causes via The Rainforest Site, The
, and The Child Health Site.
Other sites which offer similar aid to charities are:
Last updated: 3 May 2003
Comments
This is good to know!
Our local shelter has an arrangement with Science Diet. All the free Science Diet cat & dog food they need. Free. The shelter newsletter always says, "Don't donate food!"
My recent donation was a doggie boots, coat & hat set, in foille pink and silvah dahlink! Canine winter wear on summer sale. I donated it for the shelter's summer fundraiser auction. They loved it.