Charity badge - a widget used on web-sites, blogs, social networks or e-mail for promotion of some humanitarian initiative, mainly gathering donation for charity projects.
This kind of action was initiated by Yahoo searching engine and Network for Good charity aggregator. Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... An aggregator or news aggregator or feed reader is a client software that uses web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as blogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results. ...
Some companies allow website owners or bloggers to make a personalized badge for setting up a link to someone's favourite charity, which give possibility of wide social involvement for donations.
Such way of charity proved to gain popularity among interested communities of online users. Yahoo even promote somekind of contest for gathering the biggest quantity of one time donations (not money amount) awarding the winners with honorary gift [1].
External links
Charity Badge: Using the Power of Social Networking for Good