What is The Hunger Site?
The Hunger Site is an online activism site that offers simple ways to help in the fight against the silent killers of hunger and food insecurity.
Clicking is Free
In just a few seconds each day, visitors can click on the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button on the home page and, at no cost to them, help feed the hungry worldwide. Cups of food are paid for by The Hunger Site's sponsors and distributed by Mercy Corps and Millennium Promise worldwide, and by Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest) to food banks throughout the United States.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
The Hunger Site was founded on June 1, 1999. To date, more than 328 million visitors have clicked to give more than 25,000 metric tons of food (that's more than 447 million cups of food!) to the world's hungry via a simple and free daily click.
Shopping Gives Even More
The store offers a wide array of items to show your support as well as fair-traded and handcrafted items from around the world that help families and communities pull themselves out of the poverty and hunger cycle.
Together, your free daily click and your purchasing power through The Hunger Site store create a powerful, positive force for saving lives.
How does the site work?
When you click on the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button, your click is counted by our servers and you move to the Thank You page, where you will see small ads for our site sponsors. There is no charge to you; cups of food are fully paid for by these sponsors.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
Every click on the yellow button results in funding for Mercy Corps, Feeding America, and Millennium Promise. The more people who click, the more cups of food we can fund.
Who pays for the cups of food?
Site sponsors purchase small ads on the Thank You page for a certain amount of time. The Hunger Site then tabulates the number of people who click during that time frame and bill the sponsor for the appropriate amount. The Hunger Site divides the click monies between three leading hunger relief organizations: Mercy Corps, Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest), and Millennium Promise.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
How do you calculate the amount of food given by visitors' clicks?
We count the number of clicks each day. The amount paid for those clicks is based on the type and structure of advertising agreement the site sponsors have with The Hunger Site.
The two keys to the success of The Hunger Site are site sponsors and visitors like you. The more sponsors the site has, the more funding toward hunger relief is given with each click. The more visitors who click each day, the more advertising fees we can collect and the more food relief we can fund together!
How often can I click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button? Can I just keep clicking and give thousands of cups of food at once?
You can click once a day, every day of the year on The Hunger Site and on each of our other Click to Give™ sites. Our agreement with our sponsors allows us to count one click, per person, per calendar day. A monitoring system is set up to check this. While you could click on the button ten or a hundred or a thousand times, we will only count one click from you. In the meantime, our system could be slowed down, possibly overloaded, preventing other visitors' clicks from generating funding. Please note that we count clicks received through company firewalls, proxy servers, etc., to the best of our ability. We count every click as fairly and accurately as possible.
How much food has been given? Where is food distributed?
Please see our Results — How You're Helping page for a detailed breakdown of funding generated. Funds are split between the three beneficiaries, with two-thirds going to fight hunger internationally, and the remaining one-third going to support hunger relief efforts in the United States. Mercy Corps works to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Millennium Promise provides bold and innovative programs to help rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa lift themselves out of extreme poverty. Feeding America is the largest food distribution organization in the United States and serves more than 26 million people.
Are cookies required to count my click?
You do not have to accept cookies in order to click and have your click count!
For enhanced site visitor experience, we may use a cookie to store your click history. This would only be used to display your click history to you, and is purely optional. In addition, some of our site underwriters may use cookies in the process of displaying their sponsor ads. In any case, you are not required to accept cookies to click.
When does the new calendar day start?
The new calendar day starts at midnight United States Pacific Standard Time. This is 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Is The Hunger Site a nonprofit organization?
The Hunger Site is not a nonprofit organization and cannot accept financial donations directly.
GreaterGood.org is an independent charitable organization devoted to addressing the health and well-being of people (particularly women and children), animals, and the planet. GreaterGood.org distributes funds generated through the GreaterGood Network of websites to the many charitable organizations responsible for implementing programs named on these sites. 100% of the funds generated through the GreaterGood Network pass through GreaterGood.org to our partner charities.
We also encourage you to donate directly to:
Mercy Corps
http://www.mercycorps.org/article.php?id=182&source=0104
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest)
http://help.secondharvest.org/hungersite
Millennium Promise
http://www.millenniumpromise.org
How Do I Know This is Real?
There are a number of ways you can be assured that The Hunger Site is for real.
Visit "Snopes.com," the Urban Legends Reference Pages.
Read the article on us at Wikipedia.
Contact our charitable partners directly:
Mercy Corps
Dept. W
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208-2669
USA
E-mail: info@mercycorps.org
Website: http://www.mercycorps.org
Phone: 1-888-256-1900
Feeding America (America's Second Harvest)
35 E. Wacker Dr., #2000
Chicago, IL 60601
USA
E-mail: feedback@feedingamerica.org
Website: http://www.feedingamerica.org
Phone: 1-800-771-2303
Millennium Promise
432 Park Avenue South
13th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Email: info@millenniumpromise.org
Website: http://www.millenniumpromise.org
Phone: (212) 584-5710
For information and ratings of our charitable partners, visit Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org).
See also our Press page for articles that have been published about The Hunger Site.
What are the GreaterGood Network stores?
GreaterGood Network stores allow you to give even more back to your favorite cause! Supporters can contribute directly to charity by purchasing Gifts that Give More™, which give 100% of the donated amount to charity, or by purchasing one of the 4500+ products that we carry, including jewelry, apparel, and gifts. For each item purchased in one of GreaterGood Network's online stores, we give between 5% and 50% of the item's retail price to charity.
What is the Take Action Center?
The Take Action Center provides another free and easy way site visitors to The Hunger Site can engage in issues they identify with and care about. Become informed about important issues in our busy, complicated world, show your support by signing a pledge or petition, and pass along your new knowledge to friends, family, and colleagues!
What is The Hunger Site's privacy policy?
You are not required to provide any personal information to visit The Hunger Site and help feed the hungry. Click here to see our complete privacy policy.
How can I tell others about The Hunger Site?
Please feel free to use our e-card program to tell others about this great way to help fight hunger — at no charge to you! For more great ideas, you can also visit our Free Ways to Help page!
While we encourage you to pass along the message of The Hunger Site, we respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages promoting The Hunger Site to people they do not know or post inappropriately to newsgroups or in other places. We understand that this is done with good intentions. However, anything regarded as unsolicited e-mail (spam) is not helping our cause but, in fact, is hurting it. Unsolicited e-mail can alienate people who might otherwise visit The Hunger Site and help fight hunger.
Can I link my Web site to The Hunger Site?
Please do! Click here for instructions and artwork you can use.
We also encourage you to include The Hunger Site's URL (http://www.TheHungerSite.com) in the signature of your outgoing e-mail messages.
Feel free to copy and paste the sample text below for use in your signature:
The Hunger Site needs your help in fighting world hunger. Help fund hunger relief every day with a simple click, at no cost to you. Visit http://www.TheHungerSite.com today!
How can I help The Hunger Site find sponsors?
We appreciate your help in finding sponsors. The more sponsors we have, the more funding you will be able to generate for hunger relief each time you click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. For more information, please click here.
