There are many ways for you to help people in crisis, at home and around the world. Here are some suggestions:
Goodsearch
Why not give to charity while you search online? Goodsearch an easy way to donate to AmeriCares because you put the power of the web to work for us. Just use Goodsearch as your search engine and for each search, $0.01 is donated to the charity of your choice. Just type in "AmeriCares" in the text box reading "Enter Your Charity Here." When you return to the page to search again, AmeriCares will be the default charity in the box, so you don't have to type it again. It doesn't cost you anything and can silently help to change the lives of those in need at home and around the world.
Run, Walk or Ride for AmeriCares
Stay healthy and support AmeriCares by designating us as your charity of choice in your next event. What more of a challenge? Organize a road race, walk-a-thon or tournament in your hometown and help raise donations for AmeriCares work around the world. Ready! Set! Go!
Connect with Us
We encourage our friends, supporters and fans to become part of AmeriCares online community. We welcome links, tweets, fan pages, online groups, blogs, avatars, iphone apps – all the latest and greatest. Just please have serious and good intentions to help promote AmeriCares mission of humanitarian aid and disaster relief in the United States and around the world.
Shopping for AmeriCares
AmeriCares has partnered with several great companies who let you shop and donate a portion of the sale back to AmeriCares. Listed are several of our retail partners offering different programs. To begin shopping, simply click on their logos or links below!
UncommonGoods - An online marketplace offering creatively designed, high-quality merchandise at affordable prices. As part of their commitment to the world and through their Better to Give program, for every order placed with UncommonGoods.com or through their catalog, you can designate AmeriCares to receive a $1 donation.
At the end of the checkout process—after your order is confirmed—a pop-up window will prompt you to choose AmeriCares to receive a contribution on your behalf. You can see us listed on their site here.
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Fundraise with Second Life
More than one million people use Second Life, a free online virtual world hosted by Linden Lab. AmeriCares would like to extend thanks to all of our supporters in Second Life who participated as shoppers in a variety of virtual events to raise support for our Japan Efforts. Together these innovative charitable efforts produced more than $160,000 to help the people of Japan recover from a very real catastrophe. We are very grateful for their efforts.
For more information on AmeriCares work in Japan, please visit our Japan Disaster Response page.
