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Help From Home Newsletter - November 2009

Change - Change raises awareness about important causes and empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits.

OpenMind - This is an attempt to make indoor mobile robots smarter by making it easy and fun for people all over the world to work together to collect the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that constitute "common-sense".

Herberia@Home - Help document and make public the information from thousands of herbarium sheets from university and museum collections.

Mars Polar Lander - Help find the Mars Polar Lander, which crashed in 1999, by studying high-resolution images of the surface of Mars.

They Work For You - Help match video of the British House of Commons from the BBC with text of the speech archived by Hansard.

Project Squirrel - Help Project Squirrel better understand the ecology of squirrels in the United States, by contributing your observations of squirrels from your own garden.

Citizen Works - Citizen Works is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which aims to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power. Various online and offline actions to participate in.

Books 4 Tanzania - Books 4 Tanzania is a small independent charitable organisation sourcing books for rural libraries and supporting small educational projects in Tanzania.

Charity-Mail - Create and manage your own free email account via Charity-Mail. All the proceeds from the site, via advertising revenue, go directly to charity.

SITES OMITTED

Idea Wicket

Worth Idea

Ipod Recycling

Friends Green

Owl Pellet Count

All sites omitted because they have either closed down or are no longer operational.

FEATURED VOLUNTEER ACTION

replyforall

Replyforall tags a tasteful advert to the end of your emails, the revenue from which is then donated to various worthy causes. You have to sign up for the service, after which there will be very easy instructions to follow in order to get the advert into your email. Once these have been followed, the advert automatically gets added to your emails. Of course, you may not wish this to happen all the time and so there is a very convenient on/off button to allow/disallow an advert into your email.

The flip side of having adverts in your email is that you get to choose which worthy cause the advertising revenue is spent on – and there are many to choose from. Replyforall also displays the impact you're making into your chosen cause – not by financial figures but by, for instance how many days of HIV testing has been provided or how many living in poverty have been helped.

All in all, it's really a darn good scheme – if you don't mind the adverts in your email.

This action can be found here in the 'Charity Donating Emails category.

VOLUNTEER ACTIONS LISTED

Charity = 194

'Green' = 183

Advocacy = 122

SITES OF INTEREST

Yes

Founded in 1990 by two teenagers, YES! is a nonprofit organization that connects, inspires and collaborates with young changemakers to join forces for a thriving, just and sustainable ways of life for all. Their 3 program areas are Global Leadership Jams, Leveraging Privilege for Social Change, and Supporting Aligned Movements. Got a vision to change the world, well visit Yes!

Guerilla Gardening

There is neglected orphaned land all over the place. Why not brighten up that piece of land with a few flowers and put some smiles on passers by. Do it yourself or with a group of people. That's what Guerilla Gardening is all about, cultivating little pockets of neglected land for the benefit of others.

CHARITY GAMES

Play a game and a donation goes to charity at no cost to you.

Coy Card Unlimited

Match alike adjacent cards until all the cards are eliminated. There is no end to this game, so it's a case of getting the highest score – if you've got some spare time on your hands. The more you play, the more goes to charity, which is all paid for by sponsors ads

10 SECOND FREE DONATION

Click the link below to take you to a webpage that donates one cup of free food to fight hunger - all at no cost to you. Just click the green-ish 'Fight Hunger button when you get there. Easy life!