What is The Child Health Site?
The Child Health Site is an online activism site that offers simple ways to help children in need get the basic but critical health services they need to get and stay healthy.
Clicking is Free
In just a few seconds each day, visitors can click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button on the home page and, at no cost to them, help children in need. Health services are paid for by The Child Health Site's sponsors and accomplished by Mercy Corps, Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Helen Keller International.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
The Child Health Site was founded in October of 2002. To date, more than 100 million visitors have helped more than 2,161,000 children via a simple and free daily click.
Shopping Gives Even More
Shopping at The Child Health Site store helps even more. Each and every purchase provides more funding for children's healthcare to those who need it most. 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 Child Health Site store create a powerful, positive force for saving children's lives and leading them to robust health.
How does the site work?
When you click on the "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; children's healthcare services are fully paid for by these sponsors.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
Every click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button results in funding raised for Mercy Corps, Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Helen Keller International. The more people who click, the more critical healthcare services we can provide.
Who pays for protecting children's health?
Site sponsors purchase small ads on the Thank You page for a certain amount of time. The Child Health Site then tabulates the number of people who click during that time frame and bill the sponsor for the appropriate amount. The Child Health Site divides the monies between Mercy Corps, Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Helen Keller International, and all of these organizations work to protect children's health.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
How do you calculate the number of children helped 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 Child Health Site.
The two keys to the success of The Child Health Site are site sponsors and visitors like you. The more sponsors the site has, the more funding toward children's health services is given with each click. The more visitors who click each day, the more advertising fees we can collect and the more children we can help together!
How often can I click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button? Can I just keep clicking and help thousands of children at once?
You can click once a day, every day of the year on The Child Health 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 many children have been helped?
Please see our Results — How You're Helping page for a detailed breakdown of funding generated. Funds are split between the beneficiaries.
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 Child Health Site a nonprofit organization?
The Child Health 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
Prosthetics Outreach Foundation
Helen Keller International
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
How Do I Know This is Real?
There are a number of ways you can be assured that The Child Health Site is for real.
Read the article on our suite of click-to-give sites, including The Child Health Site, at Wikipedia.
Contact our charitable partners directly:
Mercy Corps
Dept. W
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208-2669
USA
E-mail: info@mercycorps.org
Web site: http://www.mercycorps.org
Phone: 1-888-256-1900
Prosthetics Outreach Foundation
400 E. Pine Street Suite 225
Seattle, WA 98122
USA
E-mail: info@pofsea.org
Web site: http://www.pofsea.org
Phone: (206) 726-1636 / Fax: (206) 726-1637
Helen Keller International
352 Park Avenue South, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10010
USA
E-mail: info@hki.org
Web site: http://www.hki.org
Phone: 1-877-535-5374
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
11150 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 1050
Los Angeles, CA 90025
USA
E-mail: info@pedaids.org
Web site: http://www.pedaids.org
Phone: (310) 314-1459 / Fax: (310) 314-1469
GreaterGood.org is the nonprofit foundation arm of The Child Health Site and the GreaterGood Network. GreaterGood.org has applied for and is awaiting its 501(c)(3) status. When granted, that status will be retroactive to March 21, 2006.
For information and ratings of our charitable partners, visit Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org).
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 Child Health 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 Child Health Site's privacy policy?
You are not required to provide any personal information to visit The Child Health Site and help children. Click here to see our complete privacy policy.
How can I tell others about The Child Health Site?
Please feel free to use our e-card program to tell others about this great way to help protect children's health — 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 Child Health Site, we respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages promoting The Child Health 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 Child Health Site and help protect children's health.
Can I link my Web site to The Child Health Site?
Please do! Click here for instructions and artwork you can use.
We also encourage you to include The Child Health Site's URL (http://www.TheChildHealthSite.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 Child Health Site needs your help to get simple but enormously effective health care services to children in need. Help protect children's health with a simple click, at no cost to you. Visit http://www.TheChildHealthSite.com today!
How can I help The Child Health Site find sponsors?
We appreciate your help in finding sponsors. The more sponsors we have, the more funding you will be able to generate to protect children's health each time you click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. For more information, please click here.
