Not much money, less time, but still a desire to do some good? Your support is the important thing. The Internet again comes to your aid. The computer and the Internet can pave the way for giving because the concept of effortless giving has hit the Web.

At The Hunger Site, online givers can donate food to developing nations with a single click. The Hunger Site propelled by the fact that over 24,000 people die each day from hunger, three quarters of them being children has created an easy way to help these hungry people. Just click on a button and sponsors automatically donate a few cents to fight world hunger. This site's concept is just a year old and has already drawn over 55 million users and generated over 6,800 metric tons of food for the needy.

The one click idea has caught on. Copycats for other causes are now making clicking worthwhile. The Hunger Site was recently sold to GreaterGood.com who has launched a similar site allowing other philanthropic-minded people to donate a piece of tropical rain forest with each click. Computer users can access the rainforest site through http://www.greatergood.com. One click authorizes a group of rotating site sponsors to pay for the donation of 19.2 square feet of land, which will be distributed by the Nature Conservancy. So far, 200,000 acres of rain forest in Latin America and the Caribbean have been purchased. Both the Hunger Site and the Rainforest Site keep monthly totals on the pounds of food and acreage of land that clickers donate each month.

A growing number of shopping sites are making donations seamless by forwarding a percentage (5 - 15%) of your purchase to a charity of your choice. GreaterGood.com, the sponsor of the Hunger Site and the Rainforest Site, is basically a shopping portal designed to encourage giving with little to no effort. GreaterGood.com donates a portion of each purchase to the charity of the buyer's choice. Consumers choose to shop on behalf of one of the 2,800 non-profit groups, universities, or K-12 schools listed on the site. When they shop, a percentage of their purchase goes to the shopper's charity of choice. GreaterGood.com splits the donations with the charity and reinvests a portion of the money back into marketing.

At www.ecologyfund.com, money is raised for environmental causes. This for-profit shopping site donates a small percentage of its profits to the charity that runs it.

We watch the Web as it grows in effectiveness as a charitable tool. The Internet supplies us with another tool to make the world a better place whether it is to check out the credentials of our designated charity, sign up to be a volunteer, or click hunger away with our mouse.

With our dollar contribution, great or small, we can make a difference. With hands-on volunteer time, we can make a difference. Now with one click of a mouse, we can make a difference.

Let's do it. Make a difference.