I got tagged by Donncha this morning for the charity-link meme – which is a very good idea to heighten our awareness of [Irish] charities and raise their page ranking. This seems to have been started over on SEO Refugee.
The idea is you “add your 5 favorite charities or non-profit organizations to the end (link to their sites with anchor text of the causes they champion). Of course finish things off by tagging 5 other webmasters/bloggers and then publishing the post or the webpage.”
The list of charities so far is:
- MS Society Ireland
- Irish Red Cross
- Samaritans
- Cancer.ie – Irish Cancer Society
- Irish Hospice Foundation – Hospice and palliative care in Ireland
- Barnardos – Ireland’s leading children’s charity
- The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity – Polish Charity
- CPR For Schools Across Poland – CPRTraining
- Program of Insulin Pumps in Diabetic Children Therapy – Insulin Pumps For Children
- Non-invasive Neonatal Breathing Support – Infant Flow
- Program of Universal Neonatal Hearing Screenings – Neonatal Hearing
- American Red Cross – disaster relief
- Raleigh Rescue Mission – homeless raleigh
- Samaritan’s Purse – emergency relief programs
- St. Jude Children’s Hospital – cancer research
- Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders – Humanitarian Relief
- American Red Cross – Emergency Preparedness
- AMREF – African Medical & Research Foundation – African Health Development
- DOROT – Programs for Elderly
- Feed the Children – Protect Children
- Service International – Disaster Relief
- Pujols Family Foundation – Children with Down Syndrome
- National Alliance to End Homelessness – Homelessness
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research – Parkinson’s Research
- Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Program – Child Healthcare
- Aids Research Alliance – Aids Research
- Wildlife Conservation Society – Wildlife Protection
- Cancer Research Institute – Cancer Research
- Second Harvest – End Hunger
- AARP Foundation – Helping Senior Citizens
- Bubblegum Club – Children In Crisis
- Autism NI – Autism Northern Ireland
- Adoption Ireland – Irish Adoption Charity
- Ireland Funds – Peace and Reconciliation In Ireland
- Dublin Simon Community – Combating Homelessness in Dublin
- Aware
- To Russia with Love
- Debra Ireland
- Focus Ireland
- ISPCC
- Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind
- The Jack & Jill Foundation
- The Carers Association
- The Chernobyl Children’s Project International
- The Samaritans
I added the last five; and nominate: Kae, Noirin, Proinnsias, Dave and David to carry this on.
[...] Got tagged by Ken. The idea here is to have a growing list of charities to raise awareness of their existences. You add your own favourite 5 to the end, and tag 5 other people. I don’t know that many charities, but I’ll add Christian Blind Mission, Vincent De Paul, and the Drop Inn Ministries. [...]
[...] After complaining about never getting tagged by memes, I found out that I totally missed one from Ken Guest a few weeks ago. It seems reasonably worthwhile to give link karma to charities, so here goes. [...]
I think volunteering is the best thing you can contribute as a person. Great post. I appreciate your work.
bad that just irish charities
Larry, I didn’t add just Irish charities – the Samaritans are primarily based in the UK I think. Also, I think some people prefer to help those closer to home so there’s all the more reason to highlight these charities that they may not be aware of.
While I have had some great experiences overall, in volunteering with charitable groups, I have had one bad experience, with Drop Inn Ministries.
I, and a few other volunteers where treated with suspicion, disregard and blatantly lied to, from the people who are at the forfront of that organisation.
Shame on them…
working for free is a very very good way to support the foundations