How You're Helping
The Rainforest Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific ecological need: the preservation of the world's rainforests. Every click on the green "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button funds the preservation of vital rainforest habitat. Visit The Rainforest Site and click every day!
When you shop at The Rainforest Site store, each item you buy also helps fund habitat preservation -- at no extra cost to you! The chart below shows square feet of habitat generated by shopping at The Rainforest Site store over the past six months. Your shopping here makes a difference -- thank you for all you do!
Did you know?
During our "Extra Donation Days," your shopping at GreaterGood Network stores does even more to help! Here is what we have accomplished together through the additional funding generated by our Extra Donation Days in 2009:
- Funded $3,761 of emergency aid for animals caught in the Australian brush fires through the International Fund for Animal Welfare
- Funded the rescue of 9,650 baby sea turtles through La Tortuga Feliz
- Funded 16 months of food for rescued monkeys through the Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary
- Funded 3,019 trees to be planted in the Michoacan forest through the Michoacan Reforestation Fund
- Funded 83,847 meals for families in the United States through Feeding America
- Funded clean water for 48 children in Ethiopia through A Child's Right
- Funded $2,196 of humanitarian aid for refugees in Eastern Congo through Mercy Corps
- Funded 62 Berkeley Darfur Stove subsidies for refugees through the Darfur Stoves Project
- Funded heating for 13 classrooms in Afghanistan for the whole winter through the Central Asia Institute
- Funded 33 school uniforms and necessary supplies for a year through Central Asia Institute
- Funded 11,346 toys for children in need through Bears Without Borders
In 2008, here is what we have accomplished together through the additional funding generated by our Extra Donation Days at GreaterGood Network stores:
- Funded 118,306 meals for families in need through Feeding America
- Funded 2,705 pounds of seeds for African families through Charities Advisory Trust
- Funded 59,000 cups of food for Darfur refugees through Mercy Corps
- Funded 248 backpacks with food for children in the U.S. through Feeding America
- Funded 2,100 lunches for school children through Partners In Health
- Funded 273,000 water purification tablets for displaced victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma through the Foundation for the People of Burma
- Funded 900 days of food for Tibetan nuns through Dolma Ling
- Funded 1,340 vaccinations for children in Burma through the Global Health Access Program and the Mae Tao Clinic
- Funded 6,310 teddy bears for children in need through Bears Without Borders
- Funded $736 for cyclone recovery in Burma through the Global Health Access Program
- Funded 7,221 trees to be planted in the Michoacan through the Michoacan Reforestation Fund
- Funded 4,558 books for children in need through Room to Read and First Book
- Funded $947 toward building a school in Nepal through Room to Read
- Funded the preservation of 198,490 additional square feet of rainforest habitat through The Nature Conservancy, The Rainforest Conservation Fund, World Land Trust, and Rainforest2Reef
- Funded 590 seedlings to be planted in orangutan habitat through the Sumatran Orangutan Society
- Funded $950 of humanitarian aid in the Democratic Republic of Congo through Mercy Corps
In 2009, we can do even more to support conservation efforts in the Americas and across the globe. Together, we're making the world a better place. Thank you for your support!
