
Image: charitywater.org
Pixhug.com is the online home of the Canada-based Pixhug team which has cleverly turned photo sharing into a potentially charitable act through its unique app. Among a variety of organizations that Pixhug Media supports in this way is Charity: Water.
This organization was started in 2006 as an effort to help everyone gain access to clean drinking water. The nonprofit’s operating costs are provided by private donors, so all funds raised publicly go directly to the communities in need.
Charity: Water makes it simple for virtually anyone to start his or her own campaign and raise money for this important cause. Tasks requiring as little effort as requesting donations instead of gifts at a wedding or birthday and as wild as riding a rickshaw across the subcontinent of India have served as vehicles for real people to raise money and fight clean water shortages throughout the world. Charity: Water provides an easy-to-use online site for each fundraising effort, and then participants can turn to social media and other outlets to let the people in their community know about it.
Once the campaign is complete, the organization directs 100 percent of funds to a community in need, and then tracks spending and provides updates about that community’s progress to the fundraising team. Those interested in helping to bring clean water to the world can learn more at charitywater.org/fundraising/.