Thursday, August 20, 2009

Week 8 - Web 2.0 Awards

I went to the Web 2.0 awards site and decided to look at the three philanthropy sites - Care2, betaGiveness, and Donor's Choose. I had thought that the sites would in some way rank different philanthropic organizations based on certain criteria such as % of dollars that actually go to the charity cause, but this was not the case.

With the first site, Care2, I had a hard time figuring out the purpose of the site. The blurb says that it incorporates petitions, donations and tips. It was too scattered for me.

The second site, betaGiveness, seems to be an online shopping site. A sales commission is then given to a charity.

The third site, Donors Choose, is a site where people seem to post what they need and you can donate money to help them obtain their goals. This site was cool because of the types of things that people posted. I looked under the education section and found teachers who had posted things that they needed for their classroom. Grass roots giving.

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