{"id":6085,"date":"2005-12-27T00:55:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T00:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/google-grants.html"},"modified":"2005-12-27T00:55:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T00:55:23","slug":"google-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/google-grants.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

USAToday story on Google’s service of providing free ad space to non-profits.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two years ago, non-profit director Ray Rickman decided to put up a website to attract donors for his cause: raising money to pay doctors to treat people in Africa and Asia. <\/p>\n

His Providence-based AdoptADoctor.org attracted just two visitors a day, and one donation per week \u2014 before Google.<\/p>\n

In February, Rickman signed up for the Internet search giant’s Google Grants \u2014 offering free advertising for non-profit groups \u2014 and everything changed. <\/p>\n

Now, he’s getting 300 visitors per day, and 25 donations weekly "from all over the world," he says. "Substantial money, like $5,000 or $8,000 a pop, from people who just found us on the Internet, thanks to Google. It’s amazing."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some <\/em>non-profits, that is:<\/p>\n

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Google will give free ad space only to non-religious and non-political groups, Sandberg says, because, "We want to be fair and unbiased in everything we do."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We exclude to be unbiased. Got it.<\/p>\n

So that means that besides the big guns like CRS and the Salvation Army, small religiously-based non-profits doing great work and in need of funds are out of the picture. Groups like St. Joseph’s Orphan School in Nigeria, run by Gospa Missions. <\/a>And groups like…name your own deserving small non-profit, here or abroad, with contact info, if possible, since Google is too unbiased to care…<\/p>\n

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