You decided. The Global Food Crisis Fund ’tis.
Thank you for voting. Thank you for caring. And an extra special thanks to:
for making additional contributions to the Malaria Intervention Fund ($350) and the Global Food Crisis Fund ($50).
You helped us earn it. Now, help us spend it.
Where should the $817.40 donation from Search Kindly be applied?
Global Food Crisis Fund
The global food crisis is being called a “silent tsunami” that could plunge several hundred million people deeper into poverty and hunger.
Families living in extreme poverty often spend more than 50 percent of their income on food. And often, the daily income is less than $2 a day. When food prices climb, children in poverty do not eat. Food prices have risen as much as 100 percent in some countries since 2006. Many of the countries we serve are among those that have been hit hard by rising food prices.
Money donated to the Global Food Crisis Fund will help provide life saving food supplies to the children you sponsor.
Malaria Intervention Fund
Each year, more than 1 million people die from malaria. More than 750,000 of those deaths are children in Africa. That’s one child every 30 seconds. And for every child who dies, hundreds more become sick and incapacitated. Though not talked about as much as AIDS, malaria is a silent, fast killer that puts all children and families we serve in Africa at serious risk. And thousands more people in countries where we work around the world live in fear of the disease.
Money donated to the Malaria Intervention Fund allows us to provide mosquito nets and malaria prevention education to entire families of Compassion-assisted children. It also provides medical treatment for children struggling with the disease.
Blogging gets children in poverty sponsored.
Here’s da proof that blogging works.
And here’s da rebuttal.
The Search Kindly “Money Thermometer” shows that only $203 has been raised for Compassion this month.
Using highly complex advanced math skills that bend the imagination as well as extraordinarily precise scientific pattern analysis that can’t help but impress, and with one-third of precincts reporting, CNN (Compassion Network News) predicts that Search Kindly will donate slightly more than $600 to Compassion at the end of the month.
No goals will be met, and no observable impact for your efforts, particularly the friends below, will be seen.
It seems our call to action was too weak. Any ideas for a compelling way to influence da thermometer?
Here’s something very easy you can do to help children in poverty.
- Use Search Kindly as your search engine during May. (It’s powered by Google.)
- Buy Kindly! Make your Amazon.com, eBay, iTunes, Target and Wal-Mart purchases through the Search Kindly homepage. There are many other popular retailers available too.
Thanks to your votes, Compassion will receive 100 percent of Search Kindly’s ad revenue for the month of May. Their goal is $1,000, but we’re hoping for more than that. How’s that for transparency? And how about $2,500 as a goal?
There’s a thermometer on their homepage where they show how much money has been generated so far. Right now, we’re at $84.
Here’s how it works:
More eyeballs = more money = more children helped.
More advertising revenue is generated from unique visits than from frequent visits. What that means is the “Money Thermometer” goes up more quickly for each new pair of eyes that view the site than it does for repeat visits, but the keywords there are “more quickly”. Repeat visits definitely help!
For those of you who get a bit overwhelmed at the technical side of all this web stuff, like some of us on the Web Team 
here’s your To Do list.
We asked, and you responded. Mille grazie! A thousand thanks. Actually, 2,618 thanks. That’s how many votes we received.
It doesn’t look like SearchKindly will reach its goal of raising $1,000 this month, so far the donation thermometer reads $682, but we’re still glad they included us in their voting.
You can help advance the work they’re doing by telling your family and friends about them. The more people who view the ads on their site, the more ad revenue that gets generated and donated. That’s how it works.
Will you help us say thank you to Tammy Chalfant, who organized the first ever Compassion Sunday event at Farmland Friends Church (FFC)?
Please tell Tammy and her pastor, Kris Sorensen, how much you appreciate their work.
And Shaun Groves too. He spoke at the event, and he’s a TIRELESS advocate for children in poverty.
Then, take a hop over to SearchKindly.org and help us win $1,000!
SearchKindly is a non-profit organization that donates 100% of its ad revenue to charity. This month Compassion is competing against four other charities for the donation. And right now, we’re in SECOND place with $500 on the table. But the amount goes up every time someone visits the website.
Please visit, and please vote. The contest ends “sometime” on Sunday, April 27.
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