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GoodSearch Donations Can Add Up
February 19, 2010
What if Project Freedom earned a donation every time you searched online? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!

GoodShop.com is also an online shopping mall- every time you shop online at 1,000 participating stores including Amazon, eBay, Target, Apple, Gap, Best Buy, Staples, Expedia, etc., between 3%-30% of your purchase will be donated to Project Freedom for free! To give you a sense of how the money can add up, the ASPCA has already earned more than $30,000!

The site also has thousands of money-saving coupons! Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up! Please tell your friends about the GoodSearch toolbar today, if they don’t already know about it. They've been featured in the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Oprah Magazine, Good Morning America and more. Having GoodSearch donate to Project Freedom when you search or shop online is one of the easiest ways you can help Project Freedom expand its programs. Just download the GoodSearch – Project Freedom toolbar, and our cause will earn money every time you shop and search online - even if you forget to go to GoodShop or GoodSearch first! Just add the Project Freedom toolbar at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/project-freedom

*All of your searches will count toward donations except for the following: 1) image searches; 2) video searches; 3) "search this site" searches; 4) searches for URL's (i.e., search terms ending in .com, .org, .net, .edu); 5) searches to sites for which the URL is well known such as HotMail, ESPN, MySpace, Facebook, GMail, AOL, etc.; 6) searches for stock quotes; 7) searches for word definitions; 8) Yellow Pages searches; 9) any searches generated from fraudulent use of the site.

How, When and Why Did GoodSearch Begin?

We all have a cause we care about - whether it's finding a cure for cancer, saving the environment, finding homes for abandoned pets or so many other worthwhile endeavors. But what we don't all have is the time or money to support these efforts as much as we'd like. So, what if we could raise money for our favorite charities and schools by doing something we do every day — searching the Internet?

That's the question Ken Ramberg (the former founder of JOBTRAK, now a division of Monster.com) and JJ Ramberg (an MSNBC anchor and the former Director of Marketing at Cooking.com) asked themselves a few years ago. After realizing what a fraction of the $8 billion generated annually by search engine advertisers could do if it were directed towards organizations trying to make the world a better place, they launched GoodSearch in 2005.

GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. It's a simple and compelling concept. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it's powered by Yahoo!, you get proven search results. The money GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers — the users and the organizations do not spend a dime!

In 2007, GoodSearch was expanded to include GoodShop, an online shopping mall of world-class merchants dedicated to helping fund worthy causes across the country. Each purchase made via the GoodShop mall results in a donation to the user's designated charity or school – averaging approximately 3% of the sale, but going up to 20% or even more.