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To: aknahow who wrote (125303)	2/4/2001 4:16:54 PM
From: E	Respond to of 769667

I've posted a lot on this today, but I think the link to my post below will answer your questions, and there is more complete information at thehungersite.com There is also an email link there you can use if you have further questions. Message 15296214 The money elicited by your Hunger Site clicks is distributed to MercyCorps and America's Second Harvest. MercyCorp's website is here: MercyCorp's financials are provided. In 1999 their overhead was 5.7% mercycorps.org America's Second Harvest's website is here. This organization is to feed the hungry in America, and is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization with a national network of over 200 food banks and food rescue programs. secondharvest.org btw, With over 3.5 million unique visitors each month, The Hunger Site has become one of the most trafficked sites on the Internet. Its grassroots popularity has been recognized with prestigious Web awards in the activism category -- the 2000 Cool Site of the Year Award and the People's Voice winner at the 2000 Webby Awards.

To: aknahow who wrote (125303)	2/4/2001 4:18:48 PM
From: E	Respond to of 769667

Actually, The Hunger Site isn't my favorite charitable donations-for-a-click URL! Here is the best one: quickdonations.com

To: aknahow who wrote (125303)	2/5/2001 4:19:52 PM
From: E	Respond to of 769667

Hi, George. And The Street, and Thomas A Watson. Re your questions about the hungersite.... Here are the details I think you wanted. The parent company of hungersite.com is greatergood.com. If you shop via greatergood, the company you buy from (I always buy books from Amazon.com via the greatergood link) gives a commission to greatergood.com. That's how greatergood.com gets its income. Half of the shopping commissions, which can be for a few merchants as high as 30%, goes to one of the two charities I discussed below, the other half to greatergood.com. So that's how the parent company of hungersite.com stays in business: Sponsors find it a profitable way to attract potential customers. Until the end of 2000, the hungersite was operated free, first by an individual, a guy from Indiana, then by greatergood.com, and 100% of sponsor fees went to the World Food Program. It was an expensive proposition, costing up to $23,000 a month for server costs alone. (The individual was getting a million hits a month by the fourth month -- too much, so he approached greatergood.com, which had been a consistent sponsor, to take the site over.) In December of 2000, the Hunger Site began taking a "hosting fee" of up to 25% of advertising (sponsor) revenues, with at least 75% of sponsor revenues going to America's Second Harvest and Mercy Corps. Note that, as I said yesterday, the hosting fee is figured into the donation equation up front, so that 100% of the donation total appearing on the Thank You page does indeed go to The Hunger Site beneficiaries. I did some research on these two non-profit organizations. Mercy Corps, mercycorps.org America's Second Harvest, secondharvest.org Their audited financials are there. So are looooong lists of their corporate sponsors. I urge a visit! Mercy Corps's overhead expenses = 7% of income. America's Second Harvest was rated in 1998 by the Chronical of Philanthropy, and received an Efficiency Level Score of 99.6%. (Efficiency level determined by percentage of total expenses devoted to programs rather than administration or fundraising.) The Salvation Army came in at number one. (Yesterday I mentioned the Salvation Army as being excellent in this regard.) 2... YMCA 3... American Red Cross 4... American Cancer Society 5... Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund 6... Harvard University 7... Catholic Charities USA 8... America's Second Harvest I personally give, modestly, to two of the above charities. But that costs me money. When I click on www.hungersite.com, it costs me only a click. If they have four sponsors that day, my click produces a cup of cooked food for a hungry person. My information came from the sites above, and hungersite.com, and from a conversation with the Sponsor-relations Manager at the hungersite. I asked if he earned above or below 50,000 a year, btw. The answer was "Below." I wonder if that was rude of me. I was curious. Edit: I just deleted his name, but he picks up the phone if you call.