You have the option to set up a limit on how much you want to donate every month and choose from 749 different non-profit organizations to donate to. You can browse around 25 different categories to select a charity that suits you best. The charity organization can be changed anytime. The transactions are completely secure and you can pause the process anytime you want.

Features:

• Rounds up your credit card transactions and gives difference to charity.
• You can choose from 750 different charity organizations.
• Set a monthly limit or pause the donations whenever you desire.
• Each friend invited by you will get $10 to donate to his favorite charity.
• Similar tools: Microgiving, Flattr, or read 6 Charities That You Can Just Text To Donate.

Visit SwipeGood @ www.swipegood.com

Bolder is a wonderful web service that lets you set up various challenges for the Internet audience. These challenges can be anything from eating organic food for a week to reading more pieces of literature and philosophy. You can set up any type of reward or incentive for people to complete your challenge – for instance you could promise to donate a specific amount to a particular charity for each completed challenge.

If the challenge is related to a website you run, you can grab the site’s widget for your website. People who complete your challenge can leave comments on the challenge’s webpage to share their experience and motivate others.

If you do not want to currently set up any challenges, you can visit the site and check out available challenges that interest you.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you set up various challenges.
• You can setup a reward or incentive for the challenge.
• People can share their experiences about the challenge.
• Offers a widget to be embedded on your website.

Check out Bolder @ www.bolder.is (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

With this tool, you can browse through profiles and projects where you can contribute for as little as $5. You can also create a recipient account and post a fundraiser request or a hardship request. Fundraiser requests are for those people who are trying to raise funds for a project, cause, or idea, for instance, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, charities, and the like. Hardship requests on the other hand are for people who are trying to overcome financial trials.

Microgiving is a one-of-a-kind philanthropy website that provides a more personal channel among donors and recipients, bringing them closer to each other and allowing them to cultivate touching relationships.

Features:

• Donate to fund various causes, projects, ideas, and fundraisers.
• Request financial assistance via microdonations from other people for projects, causes, and economic hardships.
• Displays how much money has been raised as well as who have donated.
• Share fundraisers to other people using Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and StumbleUpon.
• Communicate with the people involved by writing a comment on the fundraiser page.
• Similar tools: Flattr, or read 6 Charities That You Can Just Text To Donate.

Check out Microgiving @ www.microgiving.com

The videos and photographs found on the site can be shared across a variety of social networks. They can also be embedded on your own site or blog.

By browsing the site you will be able to familiarize yourself with the important issues being faced by people around the world; you will learn how these issues are being dealt with and how they can be solved.

Intro video:

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Provides videos and photos that cover important issues around the world.
• Familiarizes you with important global issues.
• Lets you share videos and photos on a variety of social networks.
• Provides embeddable code for videos and photos.
• Also read related article: 7 Citizen Journalism Websites For Crowdsourced News.

Check out Explore @ www.explore.org (by MOin from ThumbPress)

FundRaise is a web service that lets you browse various fundraisers and create online fundraisers. You can start a fundraiser for any organization or cause regardless of its nature and size. While creating a fundraiser you enter the fund’s name, description, your fundraising goal, and optionally a website URL, a time limit, and a photograph. Your online fundraiser is then published on a public URL; the fundraiser can also be found by browsing the FunRaise website.

People who visit your fundraising page will be able to view all the details you entered along with recent activity on the fundraising page – this mainly involves the comments visitors have left. Visitors can also use the available buttons on the page to share your fundraiser across their online social networking accounts.

On your fundraiser’s page visitors can leave donations through their credit cards. Of the total amount of donations, FundRaise keeps 7.5%, and delivers the remaining 92.5% to you.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you setup online fundraisers.
• Fundraiser can be of any type and organizations of any size.
• Displays recent activity on your fundraising webpage.
• Also read related articles:
• Similar sites: Philanthroper, Crowdrise, Facebook Causes, EndorseForACause, Rec.fm, GoodSearch, Pledgie, ReplyForAll and FreeRice.

Check out FundRaise @ www.fundraise.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

The good thing about this site is that, as they claim, they do not take a cut from the donations and neither do the non-profits need to pay them anything. They use tiny ads on the site to help them run the business. You can also submit a non-profit of your choice.

Features

• Daily deal concept applied to garner donations for nonprofits.
• $1 donation is all that’s needed.
• Only available in the US.
• Payments processed through mPayy.
• Similar tools: EndorseForACause, Rec.fm, GoodSearch, Pledgie, ReplyForAll and FreeRice.

Check out Philanthroper @ www.philanthroper.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

You can decide on the selected address or do another search to pick a new address. When you find an address you are happy with, click OK and print out the address.

Just send your gift to the stranger living at that random address and make him/her happy.

Your stranger’s address will be marked by a blue balloon on the map. All addresses picked through Gift A Stranger are indicated by a blue balloon. Click on any balloon to see what others are getting.

Features:

• Gift a stranger.
• Lets you pick a random address from Google Maps.
• Lets you see what other people are sending to random addresses.
• Helps perform a random act of kindness and spread joy.

Check out Gift A Stranger @ www.giftastranger.net (by MOin from ThumbPress)

To start donating, you will need to select a retailer. You can view the list of retailers available on the site; these retailers are working with Endorse For A Cause. The percentage of your purchase they donate to charity is shown under the thumbnail image of each retailer. The percentage varies from 0.7 to 8 percent.

You can also nominate charities that need funding and could use help from Endorse For A Cause and its members.

Features:

• Donate to a charity through online purchases
• A user friendly website.
• Supports a lot of retailers.
• Lists all the retailers.
• Lists the percentage each retailer is giving to charity.
• Similar tools: Rec.fm, GoodSearch, Pledgie, ReplyForAll and FreeRice.

Check out “Endorse for a Cause” @ www.endorseforacause.com

Once you sign up for a Crowdwise account, you can either start a fund-raising campaign, volunteer for a project, or get sponsors for your volunteer projects. You can choose whether you just want to donate money or be part of the volunteering team. You can also set up as many fund raising campaigns and volunteer projects that you want.

There is, however, a transaction fee once you donate to the project or charity you set up. Crowdrise deducts 5% on donations made through their site and a $1 transaction fee for donations under $25 or a $2.50 transaction fee for donations $25 and above.

Crowdrise not only aims to help volunteers and fundraisers but is also a fun way for people who share the same passion of helping people in need to bond, interact, share stories, share visions, and be friends with.

Features:

• Easy search engine for the charities or foundations you may want to be part of.
• Users can win amazing prizes as long as they incur many points.
• Donations are secured since the Crowdrise uses Amazon Payments.
• Easy user-interface; adding friends, uploading photos and videos are easy.
• Transaction fee applies.
• Share your project.
• Team fund-raising adventure.
• Similar Tools: GoodSearch, Flattr, SeeYourImpact, and Givv.

Check out Crowdrise @ www.crowdrise.com

SeeYourImpact is a donations website that lists causes and specific cases that require donations. After visitors donate an amount, they can view their donation’s direct impact on the involved party. The image below, taken from the website, explains how the process works.

The homepage of the website lists a number of causes which users can choose to donate to. Pictures of the directly involved people are shown. With each cause a suggested donation amount is also shown; this is the amount that will help the listed cause. Donations can be through Google Checkout, credit cards, or Paypal.

Features:

• Helps us see the direct impact of our donations.
• Lists various causes from around the world.
• Lets us know of the amount that will make a difference.
• Similar tools: Givv, ChipIn and Flattr.

Visit SeeYourImpact @ www.seeyourimpact.org