Natural Environment Blog

Imagine if you could donate to your favorite charity every time you searched the web. And imagine if it didn’t cost you any money.

Well, GoodSearch enables you to do exactly that.

GoodSearch is a search engine that donates 50-percent of its revenue to charities and schools designated by its users.

How Does It Work?

All you need to do is use GoodSearch when you search the web.

GoodSearch generates income from the advertising displayed on the search results page.

Note that the first time you use GoodSearch, you will need to choose your favorite charity. Once you’ve chosen your charity, you can just return to GoodSearch whenever you need to search the web.

To help your favorite charity:

1. Go to GoodSearch.com 
2. Select your favorite charity (you can either type it in or select it from a list of charities)
3. Search the web as you normally would 

Examples

Here are some pre-made links to help you get the idea. By clicking on these links, the GoodSearch website will open, with the relevant charity already selected:

• Action for Nature
• EarthTrust
• Earthwork Foundation
• The Nature Conservancy
• World Wildlife Fund

GoodSearch is powered by Yahoo! so you know that you’ll get good quality search results.

Does It Cost Me Anything?

No. GoodSearch provides people a way to support their favorite charity or school at no cost. The money comes from the GoodSearch advertisers.

Where Does The Money Come From?

The money comes from the GoodSearch advertisers - companies who pay to advertise on GoodSearch. Here’s how GoodSearch explain it: 

Search engines make most of their money from companies that pay an advertising fee when users click on links during a search. At GoodSearch, we’ve developed a patent-pending way to track and direct these search-generated proceeds to charities. In other words, a portion of advertiser dollars (and not your own!) earned as a result of your search, are now passed along to the organization you’ve chosen to support.

How Much Will My Charity Receive?

GoodSearch estimates that each search averages to around $0.01 for your charity. They have also provided the following estimates to give you an idea of how much money each charity could potentially receive:

Also Checkout GoodShop

GoodSearch have also launched GoodShop, which donates money to your favorite charity when you shop at your favorite online store after clicking through from the GoodSearch website.

Online stores include Walmart, Zappos, Target, Travelocity, and many more.

Do you remember my post about the website that enables you to donate to charity for free - simply by clicking your mouse?

Or maybe you remember that Tripadvisor was running a million dollar promotion allowing visitors to choose which charities would receive the most money. 

The great thing about these promotions is that it’s so easy for you to have your say. You could help your preferred charity within minutes, and without having to save up and spend your own money to do it.

Hotels Combined is another company wanting to donate money to charity. And similar to the aforementioned promotions, it’s totally free - you choose the charity, they donate the money!

In order to spread the word about the company, Hotels Combined are currently donating money to one of three charities when you mention them on your blog or become a fan on Facebook.

How You Can Help

So, here’s how you can help charity of your choice.

Mention them on your blog and Hotels Combined will donate $20 USD to your chosen charity (just email them with the URL and your chosen charity)

OR

Become a fan on Facebook and Hotels Combined will donate $5 USD to your chosen charity (simply sign into Facebook, become a fan, then post a comment on their Facebook profile indicating your choice)

Donating to charity couldn’t get much simpler (or cheaper) than that!

The Charities

Hotels Combined are currently donating to the following worthwhile charities:

• WWF - the global conservation charity dedicated to stopping the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and building a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
• World Vision - Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice 
• Make a Wish Foundation - Granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.

About Hotels Combined

Hotels Combined is a search engine that searches over 900,000 hotel deals worldwide for the best price possible.

The hotel deals are retrieved from multiple hotel reservation websites around the world, enabling you to compare prices and availability across all major acommodation providers on a single screen.

This company says that they are always looking for ethical and environmentally friendly ways of doing business. 

The aim of this promotion is to help spread the word about the company in an ethical and environmentally friendly way.