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Virgin Launches Strip2Clothe Charitable Campaign

When we moved last month, my wife and I toted out 43 garbage bags of clothing we culled from our closets to donate to charity—some garments, a little shamefully, with the tags still on them. I'll let that act serve as rationale enough for not sending Virgin Mobile a video of myself stripping—although Chris Farley's got nothing on me as far as moves go.

SMS Based Charity Systems

There are tons of uses for SMS (text messaging); Clickatell recently published a guide to 101 business uses for SMS. I'm still making my way through it, but it's a great read. Read/Write Web last week posted a great guide to how SMS is being used for giving.

Club Penguin Kids Can Make A Difference

Club Penguin, the virtual gaming world for kids, will allow it members to donate some of their virtual coins to charity.

Scrapblog Scraps For March Of Dimes

Multimedia scrapbooking site Scrapblog will assist the latest March of Dimes fundraising campaign with an effort called 'Every Baby Has a Story'.

Google Foundation Financially Well-To-Do

Compound interest can be an amazing thing - money just sort of grows out of whatever amount a person or company originally deposited.  If, for example, an organization started out with $85 million, it could earn a fresh $4 million in a year’s time.  And that appears to be exactly what the Google Foundation did.

Charity SEO Contest

When “the Lisa” emails you and (ever so) politely asks if you’d mention their contest on your blog, it’s hard to say “no”. Her blogging wit is razor sharp and you don’t want to find yourself on the wrong end of it.

Children's Charity Sets Up in Habbo Hotel

While the focus this week on virtual communities has been on Second Life, with news of developer Electric Sheep’s $7 million tie-up with CBS and others, here’s news of one organization’s plans for another virtual community.

Google Gives Clicks To Charity

Everyone’s aware of Google’s old “do no evil” motto, but not as many people know about the company’s good works. Some folks were very surprised by the extent of one recent charitable act: the Google Grants program essentially dumped $10,000 into a non-profit organization’s AdWords account.

Google's Charity Donation

Google has announced new merchants using Google Checkout - Toys "R" Us, Babies "R" Us, Golfsmith, Linens n Things among others - but more importantly, they've announced the addition of eight international charities.

Seasonal Changes At Google Checkout

Google Checkout has, as expected, instituted a few changes in response to the holiday shopping season. Look for a smattering of new merchants - including PETCO - and for the opportunity to save $10 (in more than one way).