Web site: repository for banner ads for charities, useful for other web site owners that want to host charitable banner ads.

Catalogs them by subject area, and by banner size, and includes a short description of the charity, and a link to the charity's site.

I found one instance of this when looking for charitable banners for quicktopic.com, but it wasn't very complete or well done, as I recall. A quick Google search for "charity banners" and "charitable banners" doesn't turn up anything in the first page.

I'm serious about this one. Since something done well needs funding, barring a completely altruistic benefactor, this would be great PR for whatever portal or other major site wanted to host it.

Any big site reps listening? If not, anyone want to collaborate?
-- syost, Mar 10 2000

(?) Ad Council banners http://www.adcounci...fr_camp_online.html
Good example of an existing single-org banner repository. [syost, Mar 10 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

(?) Nonprofit Online News http://www.gilbert.org/news/
I would be more than happy to help. I'm the publisher of Nonprofit Online News and the Director of Internet Nonprofit Center. -- Michael mcg@gilbert.org [mgilbert, Mar 10 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

thehungersite http://www.thehungersite.com/
Donates food for every ad you view. [rmutt, Mar 10 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Volunteer for doing the web-design-for-charitble-orgs web site. http://www.quicktop...qwbFCrVWgVb7ZYUbLiu
[syost, Mar 10 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

(?) Good article on Red Herring's charitable efforts http://www.redherri.../mag-angler-78.html
"If you want to help someone, you do not have to join us; all you need to do is look around you." - Mother Theresa, quoted in the article. [syost, Mar 10 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

banner ad trading house http://www.matchcraft.com/
i believe this company's product would efficiently integrate charity banners [gnormal, Mar 10 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Givle http://www.givle.com
Integrating google with blackle, and giving the ad revenue to charity [sprogga, Jan 22 2008]

Another related thing that I've been thinking of doing is a website for matching charitable organizations with web designers--mostly college students, but really whoever. I think there is a real need out there for very low cost or pro bono web development in the community service world. You'd say, I have five hours up for grabs, know Javascript, HTML, etc, how can I help. Is this too idealistic?
-- mcfrank, May 18 2000


Let's see how realistic your idea is, mcfrank -- we'll start with the site itself. Let's see if we can gather enough volunteers to bootstrap the site. So, volunteer at the link to the left.
-- syost, May 19 2000


www.webwasher.com

This strips all banner ads. I don't see any reason to give random charitable organizations any more or less of my attention than random profitable organizations.

That said, I think charitable organizations are beneficial. I also think that the IRS should view every dollar paid to charity as a dollar of taxes paid -- so that I can, if I choose, give my hard-earned money to support the causes I care about. And, charities generally run 10-20% overhead; the government (US) runs about 51% overhead -- which means more than half of the dollar they collected from you was spent merely in the act of collecting it.

If you're looking for a worthwhile charity, check out http://www.fairtax.org -- eliminate the IRS!
-- Thing 1, Jul 27 2000


Funny thing: I use an ad-blocker too (interMute). I even wrote a prototype ad-blocker in Perl before interMute, webwasher, and junkbuster were available.

However, if a good amount of the ads I saw weren't trying to get me to buy something, I'd be more inclined to turn it off.

In any case, what you imply by reference is right: the success of this does certainly rely on the fact that most people don't use ad-blockers.
-- syost, Jul 27 2000


I go to thehungersite.com every day. I don't know how much it helps though.
-- futurebird, Feb 19 2001


Seems to have caught on. See the link to givle.com - This site uses google ad revenue to support charity.
-- sprogga, Jan 22 2008


I'm against the concept of charity as such, so I can't croissant this idea.
-- django, Jan 22 2008



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