The Hunger Site Celebrates 10 Years of "Click to Give
Summary
100% money raised from the button’s sponsoring advertisers goes to fund food for the hungry through The Hunger Site’s current charity partners: Feeding America and Mercy Corps.The Hunger Site is featuring on its homepage special stories and photographs of projects recently funded by the site’s donations, including reports from the field by Mercy Corps and Feeding America.The Network’s websites experienced a significant increase in web traffic during the last half of 2008, enabling larger donations than ever before to charities devoted to improving the health and well-being of people, animals, and the planet.Currently, GreaterGood Network’s donations through the “Click to Give” program, the Gifts That Give More, and shopping on the sites benefits more than 60 charities worldwide and exceeded $3.4 million in 2008.The result has been phenomenal, with more 657 million cups of food funded in the past decade for those in need in the United States and around the world.Recognizing the power of the Internet to connect people around the world, The Hunger Site pioneered a web-friendly method of generating donations: a person clicks on the button and a sponsoring advertiser makes a donation triggered by that click.