Over 450 easy, no commitment home volunteering opportunities including ones that donate to charity for free:
Donate your bras:
http://www.gigiscloset.com/catalog/Gigi_s_Bras_for_Charity-361-1.html
This is a charitable initiative by Kevin Bacon. You can create your own widget to help the charity of your choice
on your internet page:
Rent textbooks, plant trees http://www.chegg.com
GIVE YOUR USED STAMPS
Don't throw away your used stamps, start collecting them now and send them to Surrey Wildlife Trust :
http://www.surreywildlifetrust.co.uk/Default.asp?mainmenu=homepage&EntityID={FE731AFF-4577-4D5A-9CEE-036A59A78B76}
You can also send them to RSPB ( they raise £1.50 per kg for UK stamps and £12.50 per kg for foreign stamps) :
http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/albatross/support.asp
This is only 2 examples... A lot of charities can earn money with used stamps...
Buy forest products with the FSC label : you'll have the confidence that they are not contributing to the destruction of the world's forests. By buying from certified sources you are providing an incentive for responsible forest management.
To search a database of FSC certified products, click here
HELP DIGITIZE BOOKS :
reCAPTCHA is the process of utilizing CAPTCHA to improve the process of digitizing books that were written before the computer age in order to archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world. It takes scanned words that optical character recognition software reported undetectable and presents them for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words alongside words recognized by the computer.
How it works:
In order to verify that humans can decipher these previously undetectable words correctly, two words are displayed instead of the standard one word. One of these words is generated in the usual CAPTCHA form, and only the other word is undetectable. If the users solve the usual test for the first word, it is assumed that they were also correct about the other previously undetected word. Nevertheless, more than one user has to verify the other word in order for it to be considered truly solved.
Example of a reCAPTCHA challenge:
How you can help:
If you run a website that suffers from problems with spam : http://recaptcha.net/whyrecaptcha.html
If you get email spam Mailhide allows you to safely post your email address on the web. Mailhide takes an address such as jsmith@example.com and turns it into jsm...@example.com. In order to reveal the address, a user must click on the "..." and solve a reCAPTCHA. If you use the Mailhide version of your email address, spammers won't be able to find your real email address and you'll get less spam :
Stuff your Rucksack is a site that allows travellers to recommend what things should be taken on their trips to donate to local people:
Donate your computer :
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm
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Donate your glasses:
http://www.lunettes-sans-frontiere.org/english.htm
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Donate your hair:
Source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/483403/cant_give_money_to_charity_consider.html
Translate for Survival
If you are a native speaker of other languages than English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish you can help by translating material for Survival , the only international organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide. Fill in your details on this page if you are interested:
http://www.survival-international.org/actnow/translate
Help IFAW Find Illegal Wildlife for Sale Online
"eBay offers the world the opportunity to buy anything, anywhere, anytime. This makes it easy to trade in wildlife products online – many of which are illegal. As a first step to ending the illegal wildlife trade online, we must convince website operators to put tighter restrictions on the sale of ivory. Ivory may only be sold in certain exceptional cases and with the correct documentation. This also applies to other wildlife products made of tortoise shell, furs, sharks’ teeth or other species of reptile.
Help us expose the illegal online animal trade. Report suspected banned items to eBay via their safety centre, and tell us what wildlife you find for sale on eBay or other websites. IFAW will investigate these offers where appropriate and if necessary, report them to the proper authorities":
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oId=214547
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In order to hold the seafood industry accountable for its practices, Greenpeace is gathering information about what kind of seafood is being sold in your grocery store. Are you willing to be their eyes and ears in local communities?
Help them collect supermarket seafood data –it's simple and will only take you 20 minutes:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/oceans/seafood/get-involved
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Collect important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your area through Project BudBurst:
List your unwanted (or wanted) items:
When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
Their main rule: Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages.
Source:http://www.squidoo.com/givewithoutmoney
If you can sew, you can help this charity organization to help needy children of the world:their mission is to collect donated quilts and distribute them to children around the world. If you can't sew, you can donate materials, help them update their website, help raise funds...
LiteracyWorks is an organization providing one-on-one tutoring
to adults with reading problems in Winnipeg Canada.
If you need help with your reading and
writing skills, they are here to help.
Or, if you are looking for a rewarding and
inspiring volunteer opportunity, they can help with that, too:
http://www.litworks.ca
For people from Alberta in Canada:
in certain areas of Alberta, you can help a charity by donating your car:
When you take part in an OpinionWorld survey, you directly support important charities because they donate part of their income for every survey that they run:
Take surveys through this website:
https://www.mysurvey.com/index.cfm?acti on=Main.join
The more surveys you are offered and participate in, the more points you can accumulate. Redeem your points for cash, merchandise, or donate it to a charity
Wedding List Giving helps couples to use their wedding day to give money to charities and not-for-profit organisations by having a charity wedding list:
Display prominently the Facebook charities groups and applications by using this Facebook application:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applicatio n .php?id=2601931318
