Today I want to bring a search engine to your attention that I mentioned about two years ago. I don’t usually bring up a topic that I have mentioned previously; however, this one deserves it and has had some changes since I wrote about it before.
GoodSearch.com seems to be doing some good work instead of just making money for itself. My wife teaches at Blue Ridge Christian School in Bridgewater, VA, and they just sent out a flyer about using GoodSearch and GoodShop to raise money for the school.
GoodSearch allows you to search for anything on the internet, just like a regular search engine. They use Yahoo search as their search provider which is one of the top search engines. GoodSearch has been proven to do good for a lot of different non-profit organizations. As a matter-of-fact somewhere over 68,000 non-profits are now participating with over 100 being added daily.
GoodSearch will allow you to add any charity to them and that will allow your organization to earn part of the income from each search. GS states that last year almost $8 billion was generated in ad revenue by all search engines (not just GS as they only get a small portion of it). Each time you perform a search GoodSearch will donate 50% of its revenue to a charitable organization. Each search pays about one-cent to the non-profit. If you think that isn’t much look at the total earned by all engines in the previous sentence!
They say that you can help find cures, support schools, help kids, provide disaster relief, protect the environment, help animals etc. Go to the site and educate yourself on how it works. You can even add a non-profit of your choice.
Some of their statistics so far: ASPCA has earned $18,800, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, $9,300, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, $7,300, and the Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy over $4,200 and that is just to mention a few.
Since last year they have added another site named GoodShop (goodshop.com) which allows a portion your online purchases to be added to your non-profit. They currently have more than 700 online stores where you can shop and up to 30% of your purchase price goes to your charity. Most of the places I checked were closer to 5%.
Hey, go ahead and try it out! It costs you nothing, and helps others. When you go to either site the first time it allows you to enter the non-profit you will be helping out and from then on all searches will generate about one-cent for them. They give an estimate that if 100 people search twice daily that will average about $730 annually for their non-profit. The organization must be approved first so if they aren’t in the list get them signed up.
If you don’t have a non-profit in mind but would still like to try one, use my wife’s school, they and many others would really appreciate it!