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Help out the Boobies.....

Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 9:43 pm
by pojo
This is very Important!

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to
meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site & click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle). Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number
of daily visits to donate a mammogram in exchange for advertising.
Here's the website. Please pass it along to your friends.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com

click for Boobies!

Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 9:49 pm
by JonathanBelles
Done!

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:39 am
by Janice
Also done. :D

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:44 am
by O Town
I clicked!

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:01 am
by Aquawind
Thanks for the reminder!

Desktop shortcut created for a daily click.. :)

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:37 am
by tropicana
just did my part.

-justin-

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 9:14 am
by Janice
Good idea, Aquawind... thanks

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 9:39 am
by brunota2003
Helped.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:15 am
by MississippiHurricane
Done! And will visit everyday

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:38 am
by alicia-w
done here too. and i dont sell it but if you buy items from The Pampered Chef, you can round up your amount to donate to the cause too.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 12:14 pm
by Category 5
done :wink:

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 12:41 pm
by JenBayles
From Snopes:

Claim: You can help disadvantaged women in America obtain free mammograms simply by clicking a button on a web site.

Status: True.

Examples: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]


Let this be your good deed for today ... it only takes a second. Go to the site below. All you do is click a button and a woman gets a free mammogram at no cost to you. It is paid for by corporate sponsors (who gain advertising in the process because you see their logo). All you do is go to the site and click on the free button. It takes one-second. However, you're only allowed one donation so please pass the word.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com


Origins: Over the last few years we've seen many a purportedly altruistic appeal circulate on the Internet, each one claiming you could donate money to a worthy cause or right some terrible injustice — at no cost to you — merely by taking some simple action, such as forwarding an e-mail message. (See our Jessica Mydek page for one example.) All of these messages until very recently have been hoaxes, but Year 2000 has seen a few real ones spring up.

At The Breast Cancer Site, you can "donate" clicks towards the provision of mammograms for underprivileged women in the U.S. And it's no scam, even if it's not exactly as described in the e-mailed exhortation to become part of this.

Unlike the way things are explained in the e-mail, one click does not magically provide a mammogram to a needy woman — it takes 45,000 clicks, not just one. Averaging 58,000 clicks a day, The Breast Cancer Site provides funding for approximately 1.3 mammograms a day. Visitors are also not prohibited from clicking more than once; they just can't do so more than once a day.
Sponsors become involved with this site (and others like it) as a form of advertising and public relations and thus are willing to pay for their messages to be viewed by consumers. They pay CharityUSA.com, the parent entity of the site, on a per-click basis; CharityUSA.com directs 75% of the total ad revenue collected to the National Breast Cancer Foundation and keeps the remaining 25% to run the site. (The Breast Cancer Site is not a non-profit entity, so it shouldn't be confused with a charity even though it does direct a significant portion of its revenues to those in need. It exists to make a profit, and that it's still around proves it's succeeding at this.)

GreaterGood.com also allows visitors to initiate donations to several other causes via The Rainforest Site, The Animal Rescue Site, and The Child Health Site.

Other sites that offer similar aid to charities are:

The Hunger Site
Barbara "(m)aid to order" Mikkelson

Last updated: 8 December 2002

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 1:47 pm
by ohiostorm
My grandmother died of breast cancer so I helpout wherever I can. I wear a pink rubber bracelet in her memory.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 4:57 pm
by pojo
I've clicked several times today... just doing my part.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:39 pm
by azsnowman
Sorry, gotta admit, when I first read the title I thought it was about a bra and that old commercial, "Help, they've fallen and they can't get up!"

I have clicked!

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:02 pm
by pojo
I knew I'd get some attention with the title!

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:12 pm
by pojo
click again

and a bump

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:02 pm
by KWT
Done it, the 5th of May has allowed for 11.3 mammograms, a good cause.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:55 pm
by pojo
please keep this going....Mother's day is coming up.

You can vote unlimited times per day.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:05 pm
by Windsong
azsnowman wrote:Sorry, gotta admit, when I first read the title I thought it was about a bra and that old commercial, "Help, they've fallen and they can't get up!"

I have clicked!


Azsnowman, was I married to you once? :eek: :lol: