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22 Apr 08
Originally posted by Derfel CadarnI guess it is also good for people, merely to expand their vocabulary, both for native and non-native English speakers.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
For every word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated toward ending world hunger. Help people out.
22 Apr 08
Originally posted by Derfel CadarnThanks for reminding me, I posted this link a few months ago and played there for a while, then forgot about it again. It's a pretty good learning tool in connection with a dictionary (as the site doesn't give a definition or the pronunciation of the words).
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
For every word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated toward ending world hunger. Help people out.
22 Apr 08
Originally posted by NordlysThere was a little speaker icon on there when I was playing. It looked kind of like the volume control on a computer.
Thanks for reminding me, I posted this link a few months ago and played there for a while, then forgot about it again. It's a pretty good learning tool in connection with a dictionary (as the site doesn't give a definition or the pronunciation of the words).
23 Apr 08
Originally posted by Iron Monkey11 truck loads ....
28 bn grains - in six months. try saying it isn't much to someone who's starving to death.
how does a nonprofit website run out of a garage lose $26M?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Site
The Hunger Site was started by John Breen, a computer programmer from Bloomington, Indiana, in June of 1999. Originally a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the site became popular rapidly. Faced with increasing costs, Breen sold the site to GreaterGood, "a Seattle-based online shopping mall that gave part of its sales to charity" for an undisclosed amount in February 2000. [1] In July 2001, following the dot-com bubble crash, GreaterGood ceased operations after losing $26 million dollars in venture capital. In 2001, CharityUSA.com, LLC, a privately held, for-profit company based in Seattle) assumed control of the company for one million dollars[2]. CharityUSA owns and operates various click-to-donate-sites. CharityUSA currently claims that 100% of the website's sponsor advertising revenue is paid to the aforementioned non-profit partners, however, the company does not publicly disclose the amounts it actually donates or the salaries of its executives. [3] In recent years, the site has moved from banner advertising into the marketing of merchandise, promising that each dollar spent results in donations equivalent to two cups of food.
23 Apr 08
Originally posted by zeeblebotok, so these two organisations were started by the same guy, but maybe freerice, which started in 2007, is the new, improved version of the 1999 attempt.
11 truck loads ....
how does a nonprofit website run out of a garage lose $26M?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Site
The Hunger Site was started by John Breen, a computer programmer from Bloomington, Indiana, in June of 1999. Originally a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the site became popular rapidly. Faced with increasing costs, Breen ...[text shortened]... andise, promising that each dollar spent results in donations equivalent to two cups of food.