Since this site started we’ve given a total of $1,385 to five different charities (and we will shortly donate another $400, let us know who we should donate to on Twitter). I give a lot more to various charities through my own personal donations throughout the year, but I consider the $1,385 that has been donated as a donation from this site and as extension this sites readers.
That being said, it’s never something that readers have got particularly excited about. Every month I ask for charity suggestions and if I’m lucky I’ll get one or two short replies. I thought I’d ask my readers whether they’d prefer that some (or all) of that money be given away in the form of competitions instead.
If we do decide to funnel this money into more reader competitions we will try to keep things interesting rather than running the same style of competitions found on other blogs. We will also to try to award lots of small prizes, rather than just one main prize.
I’ve included a poll below and I’d appreciate if you could take the five seconds to answer it. I’d also appreciate if you could expand about why you voted like you did in the comments below. If we decide to continue to make site donations, what do you think could be done to make the process more interesting and engaging?
Note: This will in no way, shape or form change what I do in terms of my own personal charity donations which accounted for almost 15% of my generous salary last year. Everybody should give what they feel is appropriate. There are also a number of credit cards that have category bonuses for charity contributions.
