ripple.org Review

Ripple.org is a great free way to give a little bit to charity every day at absolutely no cost.  There's four buttons you can click and each one will donate a little bit of money to a charity.  The water button gives enough to provide six days clean water for an impoverished person through a donation to Wateraid.  The food button gives a donation toward food for the hungry through Oxfam.  The education button gives a donation that covers two days of schooling for a student in East Timor through the Oaktree Foundation.  The money button helps finance micro-loans to the poor through the Grameen Foundation.

The way the site works is that every time you click, an ad is displayed for a sponsor (for the last couple of weeks it's been for Sony Erikson mobile phones).  The revenue generated by viewing of the ad is how the money is raised that is donated.

Ripple also offers a search engine (powered by google) that donates to those charities every time you do a search.  I haven't tried the search engine yet.  (I really love goodsearch and don't intend to switch).

It's easy to remember to do the clicks everyday by adding it to your "favorites" or "bookmarks" list.  I did.  That way, when I'm going through my daily routine visits, I make sure and do the clicks real fast,too.

It's nice to be able to do something nice, even if it's tiny, for free.  It takes like less than a minute to click all four buttons.  There's no signing up or anything required.  You just visit the site, click the buttons, and you've done a good thing.