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GiveNow News Edition 4, 2010
WHAT’S HOT: Wasting Time Online
US based ProcrasDonate has developed software that provides a charitable incentive to procrastinate less. Users register on the site, download the software, identify the organisations they’d like to support and pledge an amount for each hour wasted online. Then they select the websites they consider time-wasters ( Facebook and Twitter are obvious choices) and link their account for payments. As the user goes about his or her everyday online activity, the software tracks time spent and automatically arranges the direct donation.
WHAT’S NOT: Accidentally donating your life savings
An elderly woman donated a suitcase to the Salvo store at Beaconsfield, in Melbourne’s outer east last month. Unfortunately, she didn’t know her husband had stuffed the lining with approximately $100,000 in cash. The couple who bought the case and failed to hand the money back were arrested on March 18 and have been charged with theft by finding.
