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Support A Cause With Everywun

Note: This is part of my Tuesday 2.0 series at Blogging For Michigan

Today I’d like to talk about Everywun.com. Everywun is a web 2.0 social networking(ish) site that endeavors to make it possible for you to support a cause without spending a dime. Here’s how it works:

1) Sign up for a free account at www.everywun.com
2) Choose your cause. You have 5 to choose from: Animals (The Humane Society), Education (Books for Africa), Environment (Trees for the Future), Health (World Vision), and Poverty (UN World Food Project).
3) Earn credits by adding a badge to your site, playing trivia, recruiting a friend, or reading a newsletter.
4) Redeem your credits.

I just joined yesterday, and I played some trivia, so I had 164 points to spend. I planted a tree.

Everywun was launched last December by 25 year old Dan Jacobs.

“When I traveled across the country, I asked people what was stopping them from participating in charities and was told again and again they lacked time and money,” Jacobs said. “My idea was to create a world in which it’s easy to participate in philanthropy and you don’t have to part with resources you don’t have.”

With Everywun, Jacobs is part of a movement led mostly by young bloggers, budding philanthropists and social entrepreneurs who are using the Internet to promote favorite causes, link to specific needs – such as school supplies in a particular classroom – and raise money and awareness through viral networking.

“Social networking is one of the most powerful tools for a nonprofit,” said Michael Trigg, a vice president at San Francisco’s Hi5, one of the world’s largest social-networking sites. “One of the really unique attributes of a social network is what we call ‘ambient awareness,’ where by linking to a nonprofit, you create buzz and awareness in a noninvasive way.”

There’s no risk at all to Everywun participants. So give it a shot. Sign up at www.everywun.com , or just follow the Everywun widget on the left, above the video wall.

More about Everywun –

http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2008/12/everywun-give-with-click-and-without.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/04/BUL514G191.DTL
http://houseofvin.blogspot.com/2009/02/everywun-can-help.html

Follow them on Twitter here – http://twitter.com/Everywun

And on Facebook here – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everywun/60843484554

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