Here’s a way to spend 15 seconds and no money to:

• get food to those who need it
• help sick, blind or amputee children and prevent blindness and HIV infection
• help prevent breast cancer by getting mammograms for women who could otherwise not afford one
• provide books to children around the world
• protect rainforests
• feed abandoned animals

All with just the click of the mouse! Just visit The Hunger Site once a day and click once for Hunger, Breast Cancer, Literacy, Child Health, Rainforest and Animal Rescue. For each click on the site, sponsors donate money for the charity partners.

How does it add up? In 2008, the site donated:

• Over 70 million cups of food for people
• Health care services for nearly a million children around the world
• Funds to protect over 600 million square feet of rainforest
• Over 500,000 books for kids
• 7500 mammograms
• 75 million bowls of food for shelter animals

If you want to do more, you can buy a variety of products on the site, a portion of which go to further support the causes. For more information about where the money goes, see the “about this site” on each of the pages.

If you set the page as your home page on your browser, you’ll be sure to remember, and you’ll know that no matter what else happens that day, you’ll have made a small difference that adds up.

Are you clearing out the closets to make space and find a new home for that collection of Hardy Boy Mysteries? Or maybe bidding on that Strawberry Shortcake Lunch Box?

Using eBay, you can use those sales or auction time to help non-profits by using their Giving Works initiative.

You can search for items that have been posted that benefit a specific charity, and/or earmark a certain percentage of your sales to be donated to a non-profit. You can also bid on fundraising auctions (currently going: Go whale watching with Hayden Panettiere or Isabel Lucas to benefit the Whaleman Foundation) They also provide a button to use your PayPal account to make a donation directly to one of the charities.

Since 2003, the program has raised $127 million! I only wish eBay would promote the service even more. I’ll be dropping them an email…

Just in time for Be Softer’s opening days, the Body Shop has launched a campaign that gives you softer hands while giving you a chance to help others.

The campaign, called Soft Hands Kind Heart, benefits ECPAT International, a global consortium of organizations whose goal is to put an end to child prostitution and porn.

You can of course instead make a donation directly to ECPAT.

And you can join the facebook group to spread the word.