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Find the right charity fit for you.
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Know how the charity spends donations.
Charity’s willingness to disclose information.
Satisfaction with your personal involvement.
Visit http://www.children.org to help a poor child around the world.

The charity received the Innovator Award from Convio, an internet marketing company, provider, forits Lift One Project – a social networking tool – to help reach its goal of providing sponsorship assistance to 400,000 children by the year 2011.

Steven Forsey from North Tonawanda, New York, recently won a contest using this social networking tool. Forsey said, “Children International has ignited a firestorm of interest and captured people’s true inherent passions for giving and selfless service. Children International is enlisting sponsorship activism at home, in our neighborhoods, at our workplaces, and in and around our communities, essentially taking sponsorship back to the places where it starts.”

Over 4,000 people have signed up to use Lift One since its launch in November 2007, and are helping lift poor children from poverty around the world as a result of their online campaigns.

Children International President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Cook says, “We are very grateful for winning this award, but more proud of helping children who live in poverty. Using the internet is an economical way to broaden our family of sponsors who want to help poor children.”

If you would like to help, Sponsor a Child today at http://www.children.org.