As it says on the About page any money made by me on foolswisdom.com is donated to registered humanitarian charities.
The term “fundraising” in Toni’s article title “Automattic fundraising” reminded me that it was time to donate the money you gave by clicking on the ads here in 2007.
In 2007 that was $475 USD from Google Adsense and nothing from anything else.
$100 was already donated to my uni friend Microserf Nicole Steinbok’s1 Great Lake Walk to raise money for Canadian Cancer Society. My $100 donation actually became $400 for the Canadian Cancer Society as I let Nicole donate it in her name so that Microsoft would match her, and her Microserf husband Jeff Steinbok generously matched donations, which Microsoft also matched. I like to stretch my donation dollar. Nicole raised $6301 and walked 49 km!
Just now I donated the rest of the money, $400 to Sami Barker and Esquimalt High friends’ Helping build a playground for youth in San Pancho through GiveMeaning.
San Pancho is a small developing fishing village just north of PV. My Aunt, a resident of the village, has two young boys. She has a close connection with the school, and says the town would benefit from a playground at the elementary school. A group of twelve students from Esquimalt High are participating in a fundraising event to buy supplies. Under the direction of Mr. Ken Henderson, the students will visit the town in March where they will live with the locals, study spanish and hopefully get to help out with the playground’s construction2
Thank you for your support 
- Maiden name: Nicole Tiesu [↩]
- Helping build a playground for youth in San Pancho > Project Details [↩]
- Bring Life to an Urban Playground!!
- Please! Help Them Play!
- A Fenced Area And NO Playground Equipment!!
5 Comments
That’s great! I’ve never tried to make money on my blog because I just never wanted to deal with the hassle and I generally don’t like the way ads affect the design.
This is such a great idea, to donate it to charity, that it makes me rethink that position. Good job.
It is always great to see people doing stuff for fun & for free. Take the money raised and give it away to a nice charity. One of my favorites is Heifer International http://www.heifer.org They give animals to individuals in developing countries so they can start their own business and help themselves. The Gates Foundation just gave them $42.8M.
All the best,
Michael Rowles
SMB Security & Encryption
CopiaTECH
Thank you so much for donating money to our cause. It really means a lot to me, and our school. Also, we have two tickets to our dinner/dance fundraiser, which is happening on February 15th. We’d love for you to come.
Thanks again!
Sami Barker
i really appreciate you for donating yor money for a good cause
Very nice way to give something back indeed… I wish more blogger were thinking like that.