May 9th, 2007 in Technology

Ripple – Surf For Charity

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Ripple.org is a site that uses online advertising to help out charities. It’s a two prong attack.

Click

If you want to send money to one of the four charities Ripple supports, all you have to do is click Water, Food, Education or Money and you will be forwarded to a sponsor’s advertisement, of which 100% of the revenue goes directly to the selected charity.

Search

You can also search for charity by using their Google Co-op-Driven search engine. Google pays Ripple, and Ripple takes all of that revenue and gives it to your chosen charity.

Add a Ripple search keyword to your browser and you can search for charity without going to their site!

Add this button to your website, and users can click directly to the charity they want to give to, anytime they want!

Ripple also provides a SearchBar to install for Internet Explorer 7, OpenSearch, Firefox 1.5+ and Sherlock.

Simple, isn’t it?

Right now the charities are Australia based, but it doesn’t hurt to help out where ever you can.

This simple scheme could work anywhere, though. Are there any others like it? International ones, perhaps?

Save The World, One Click At A Time – [Ripple]

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Craig Childs says on May 9th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

I also found this list of 15 charitable search engines, more suited to US readers.

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Matt says on May 10th, 2007 at 2:00 am

Hi Lifehack,

Thanks for the link!

The charities are actually all international, Oxfam, WaterAid, Grameen and Oaktree.

All are fighting the global challenge of poverty.

It’s really just a detail that we have direct relationships with the Australian divisions because that is where we live. The funds ends up in the global fight against poverty regardless.

And one more point! Many of the 15 search engines listed in the above list are actually run for private profit as well as donating some portion to charity.

ripple gives 100% of it’s revenue to charity.

Hope that helps!

http://www.ripple.org
McC says on June 24th, 2007 at 2:20 am

Here’s an update… Unfortunately, Ripple no longer earns any money from Google, nor do they currently donate any money per search.

This is from the Ripple blog – http://blog.ripple.org/ …

June 11th, 2007
“Ripple Search has encountered a couple of issues and ads are no longer appearing on the Google search results page – unfortunately this means that ripple Search is not presently earning money for our charities.”
Matt says on July 3rd, 2007 at 6:23 am

Good news…

ripple search is back and earning revenue for charities again!
Simon says on July 3rd, 2007 at 9:32 am

Here’s the latest from the ripple blog – http://blog.ripple.org/

July 1st 2007
“Just a short post to confirm that ripple search is now fully functional again and each search generates revenue to help fight poverty!”

And 100% of ripple’s revenue still goes to charitiy!
Simon says on July 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 am

Here’s the latest from the ripple blog – http://blog.ripple.org/

July 1st 2007
“Just a short post to confirm that ripple search is now fully functional again and each search generates revenue to help fight poverty!”

Importantly, 100% of ripple’s revenue goes to charity!