One-Click Local Charities for Cyber Monday

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Monday, November 28, 2011

GoLocalProv Features Team

Take a break from your Cyber Monday online shopping to click for good right here in Rhode Island. Here are six ways to spread some holiday cheer in just a few minutes (and without leaving your desk).

Shop online and support the Samaritans of RI

This is a win-win. Go to Goodsearch.com to do some online shopping, and a percentage of your purchases will benefit the Samaritans of RI Suicide Prevention and Resource Center. It's easy. Once on the site, you'll be asked "Who do you GoodShop for?" Choose the Samaritans, and you'll help support work on behalf of one of the top ten leading causes of death in the United States. (You can also type in any cause you support and register it.)

Order holiday cards today from RiverzEdge

This catchy assortment of holiday cards are silk-screened by at-risk youth in Woonsocket's nationally recognized arts education and entrepreneurship program. The cards are also designed by Riverzedge youth, so you're also promoting local desigers-in-the-making. Order them today and you'll be spreading cheer within the week.

Support Edesia, an innovative local non-profit targeting global hunger

It's a click heard 'round the world. Go directly to Edesia, the Providence-based non-profit whose life-saving Ready-to-Use Foods are making headway against childhood hunger in Haiti, Guatemala, and Tanzania, and you can target a gift to one of these high-risk areas of the world. $10 can provide a one-month supply of peanut-based supplement to a child in Haiti, $15 can feed a child for two months with enriched porridge in a cancer ward in Tanzania. Join their latest drive, the 11.11.11 project. It's all right here.

Support Amos House's works in a friend's name

With one click, you can be online and making a donation to one of Rhode Island's great programs, which continually innovates how best to serve communities in need. A gift of $75 can provide prescription support for a person with a medical need; $100 can fund meals for 50 homeless men and women. Better yet, you can give and honor a friend or loved one. Do it right here.

Use Network for Good's Good Cards to give local support

If you haven't explored this social networking site for all things charitable, it's an incredible resource for giving, and general feeling good. One of the best innovations for holiday time are Good Cards, gift cards for loved ones that they can use to support the causes of their choice. You can also donate to local causes registered here.

Register to save a life as a Marrow Donor

It's the easiest thing going to see if you qualify for the National Marrow Donor Program, and with the Be The Match Registry a few minutes online could end up saving a life. Start here, which covers RI, fill out a quick questionnaire and you'll be sent the rest of the testing materials. For more information, go here.

For more holiday ideas all season long, stay tuned in to GoLocalTV, fresh every day at 4pm and on demand 24/7, here.

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