The High Definite

The Give A Shit Charity Project

Why Do This? Times are tough, and no one is falling over themselves to give hundreds or thousands of dollars to help out charities.  They still need help though, so I figure a lot of people giving less than a dollar can make a big impact.

How It Works: The premise is pretty simple.  Click on the “Donate” button below and submit a donation for this month’s selected charity in the amount of 25 cents to 1 dollar.  That’s it…no more… I mean it. I know it’s not a lot.  However, there are tens of thousands of monthly readers for this site, and the way I figure it, if even a fraction of these readers do this once a month, it can add up to a pretty sizable donation.  At the end of each month, I’ll donate the entire balance of the PayPal account to the month’s selected charity, courtesy of  The High Definite readers and myself.  I’ll keep a running list of each month’s donation to show the progress of the project (if any).

Editors Note: I haven’t seen this done before on any of the blogs I see so I have no clue if it will work, but I figure it’s worth a shot.  If you don’t feel inclined to donate a quarter to a dollar to the cause, if you could do what you can to spread the word I would greatly appreciate it.

If you can think of any improvements or suggestions, let me know.

If you work with a charity and would like to suggest it for an upcoming month’s selected charity please feel free to e-mail me here also.

If you’re in, thanks for helping out.  If you’re not, I hope you break your neck jumping into your giant swimming pool of gold coins.

February’s Selected Charity: AmeriCares For Chile

An 8.8 strength earthquake struck early Saturday morning off the coast of Concepcion, Chile’s second largest city. Over 700 people were killed and 1.5 million homes were destroyed or damaged.

Electricity and basic services are damaged, regional hospitals had suffered damage and some were evacuated.  A major bridge connecting north-south of Chile reportedly damaged and inoperable now.

To help speed aid to survivors, AmeriCares is also working with our active partners in the region—Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia—to coordinate our response.

Since 1989, AmeriCares has delivered over $16 million in medical and humanitarian donations to Chile. For over 25 years, AmeriCares has responded with emergency relief and lifesaving aid to catastrophic disasters around the world that have affected millions of families: from Hurricane Katrina in the U.S., the Tsunami in Southeast Asia, to deadly cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe, to the January earthquake in Haiti – and now to the earthquake in Chile.