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Charity Donating Emails Email plays such a big part of a lot of people's lives. Why not use it to raise money for charity at no cost to you. If you don't mind seeing adverts (which is how the donations are raised), then this is such an easy voluntary opportunity.
replyforall replyforall tags an email signature to your emails that include an advertisement from a sponsor. replyforall then donate a portion of those advertising dollars to non profit good cause organisations.	Time Taken: Up to 10 seconds. A bit of hard work for 10 seconds never did anybody any harm!
	Impact: Raises income for many, many worthy causes
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 3 more to explore!

Charity Donating Messages / E-cards / Social Networking The links below all donate money to charity if you use their service to send a message to someone, be it via e-cards or social networking.
I'm Making A Difference Use Microsoft Windows Live Messenger and every time a message is sent, a portion of the advertising revenue generated by this service will be donated to some of the world's most effective social cause organizations at no cost to you.	Time Taken: Up to 30 minutes or more – depends on how good the gossip is!
	Impact: Helps with poverty, child protection, disease, animal protection etc.
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 1 more to explore!

Charity Donating Search Engine Each time you use the search engines below a small amount of money will be generated and donated to charity. What could be simpler than this!
Everyclick Every time you use these type of search engines, such as EveryClick, a small proportion of money is donated to a charity of your choice at no cost to you. It works just like any other search engines and all donations raised are paid for by advertisers.	Time Taken: A couple of seconds, depending on length of search query!
	Impact: Raises money for quite a few charities of your choice
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 3 more to explore!

Click To Donate For Free Convert one of your mouse clicks into a charity donation at no cost to you. Each one of the links below will have a charity donation button on it, which will trigger a donation to a charity. Monies raised are paid for by sponsors or adverts.
One Click At A Time Click on a ‘Donate’ button within one of these ‘click to donate’ sites and at no cost to you, money will be donated to a nominated charity. Donations are paid for by sponsors or advertising.	Time Taken: About 5 seconds, but with a bit of practice you could get it down to 4!
	Impact: Saving baby seals, feeding the hungry, curing cancer and many more worthy causes.
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 1 more to explore!

Generate Charity Donating Advertising Revenue All the following sites have different methods of generating an income via advertising revenue. Depending on the site, some or all of this revenue is donated to charity.
SocialVibe SocialVibe allows you to choose to be sponsored from a choice of various brand names. You then post it's 'badge' to your online social profiles to earn points, which can then be converted to donations for charities or perks.	Time Taken: A couple of minutes – where would the world be without adverts!
	Impact: Helping to boost income for many worthy causes
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 8 more to explore!

Play Games that Contribute to Research Projects Scientists and researchers have come up with a way to enable contributing to their research projects more engaging and fun. Cue the game format. Play away to make a scientists day!
The FACTory FACTory is a game that lets people enter knowledge into the Cyc Knowledge Base, a large store of common-sense knowledge, and hopefully have fun doing it. While you're playing, you're teaching an artificial intelligence called Cyc about the world. The game teaches Cyc the kinds of things that people know but computers often don't - in short, common sense.	Time Taken: From a couple of minutes to whenever you get bored!
	Impact: Brings the world a little closer to a truly intelligent computer. Skynet (from Terminator) has got nothing to fear just yet, though!
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 2 more to explore!

Play Games that Donate to Charity for Free What a brilliant combination. Playing a game which donates money to charity, depending on how well you perform. This has got to be the most enjoyable way of raising money for worthy causes.
FreeRice Fancy playing a word definition game? For each word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated at no cost to you to the UN World Food Program. Donations are paid for by sponsors or advertising.	Time Taken: A couple of minutes for Joe Public. A couple of hours for eggheads!
	Impact: Helping to end hunger in many countries around the world
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 10 more to explore!

Virtual Volunteering Volunteer your services whilst still wearing your pyjamas. All of the links below will take you to a search portal or an organisation where you can put your knowledge, wisdom or skills to good use by helping people directly from your computer.
Nabuur Do you have skills in searching the internet, building a website, researching custom regulations or designing a medical clinic? Have ideas for a brochure design or a feature story etc? You do? Then volunteer your services to community projects worldwide via Nabuur.	Time Taken: Up to 30 minutes per session - virtually speaking!
	Impact: Helps community and development initiatives all over the world
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 19 more to explore!

Volunteer Your Spare Computer Power This has got to be the easiest one of all the volunteering opportunities on this website. Just download a piece of software to your pc and then let it use the spare processing power of your computer to work on problems that could potentially save lives. Once downloaded, there is usually nothing more to do on your part.
Distributed Computing Use the spare processing power of your pc to work on a small part of a larger problem. The results are combined with thousands of other computers around the world to solve challenges that a single super computer could not achieve in a reasonable time span. Just install some free software and that's it!	Time Taken: Initially 10 minutes to set it up. After that, zilch. You can watch telly as normal!
	Impact: Fight AIDS, search for ET, predict the earth’s climate and so many more
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: The link opposite takes you to all the distributed computing projects you'll ever need

Webcam Watch Webcams are everywhere - well not quite, but the following ones have been set up to enable the public to help research projects discover more information about the topic they're investigating. You watch, you spot something, you submit a report.
Nessie on the Net! A webcam has been set up overlooking Loch Ness in Scotland, UK specifically to catch a glimpse of that ever elusive animal known as Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster. If you see something peculiar, click the 'Snapshot' button and submit your picture.	Time Taken: A couple of seconds to hours - well it is a 'monstrous' task
	Impact: One of the world's mysteries could be answered if you spot something
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 2 more to explore!

Worthy Causes Toolbar This is an easy way to raise money for charities, just by installing a toolbar in your internet browser. The toolbar will provide easy access to websites that focus on donating money to charity at no cost to you.
Charity Banners The Charity Banner Click to Donate toolbar, among other things, raises money for charity and also is the only click to donate toolbar available. It is automatically updated daily with all the latest click to donate sites.	Time Taken: A couple of minutes to install!
	Impact: Raising money and awareness for loads of charities
	Cost: Nothing
	Pyjama Rating: 100% full-on pyjama zone!
	Similar sites: 1 more to explore!