Sorry for the delay in posting I have been a bit busy.
After appealing for a few comments the other day about my blogging so far, I logged back on to find well… none. :tear rolls from eye: However I checked my email and good news! I got a email about my blog! When I seen it there, I hoped it wasn’t going to be too negative and clicked on it apprehensively, preparing myself for the worst. I had nothing to fear though as it was a suggestion for a #6 for the post 5 ways to make a difference for free. Phew! 
I read through the suggestion and I’d like to thank the sender, Robert, for it very much. However, it doesn’t fall under ‘to make a difference for free’. I included change.org for the simple reason that it had a good social network basis that enabled anyone to discuss issues without having to donate. So I’m sorry but I can’t include ChangingThePresent.org in the post. However the site looks really good and I want to include it in some way, so I’m giving it it’s own post!
ChangingThePresent.org is a website where you can make a donation to a charity in the name of another person. There are 33 different causes e.g. Disaster Relief, Blindness & Vision, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Peace and Human Rights. In each of these there are different donations you can make e.g. in Global Warming, you can make a donation and adopt a penguin for $50, if you would like to donate $1500, you would give a cash-strapped community an intern to help them, create or update a community’s greenhouse gas inventory; create a local Climate Action Plan; develop pilot projects to reduce community global warming pollution, and reach out to local organizations. If your budget doesn’t stretch that far then you always adopt a sea turtle for $25 or offset 2000 pounds of carbon dioxide with a $5 donation. Really the choice is endless on the site and the perfect donation for that person you know is on there somewhere.
The site is well designed and laid out and I think that the amount of choice available should accommodate everyone. Each gift has a through description when clicked on and describes both the problem and what your gift will do. I think that this website may not be the next big thing (prove me wrong) but I do believe it is a great step forward in donations to charities and will definitely contribute to “Changing the World”, “One Gift at a Time”.
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Thanks for the nice post about http://www.ChangingThePresent.org.
We do hope that this will be the next big thing. Imagine, for one delicious moment, how much we could accomplish if even some of the $250 billion we spend each year buying presents went instead to donation gifts that do good.
With the ability to choose exactly what you want to accomplish, with wish lists and registries to ensure we get the perfect gift, and with personalized, printed greeting cards to announce them, ChangingThePresent has all the elements necessary to do tremendous good.
By the way, the site is worth a visit even if you don’t want to make a donation now. Profile pages let us share our passions and interests, while streering others to our favorite causes, nonprofits and donation items. No donation’s necessary to do that. And it costs nothing to tell your friends and help spread the word.
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