It just doesn't get any easier than this to help others. Just click on this link and Campbell's will contribute a can of soup to help feed the hungry. No cost, no forms, just a click for a can.

The Internet has given a very large number of people a very large amount of freedom. This is a fundamentally good thing. However, with freedom comes responsibility and that is a much more difficult thing to manage. The folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation make it their business to defend freedom in the digital world. Believe me there is no shortage of work for these people and we should all be very glad that they have taken on this responsibility. Please help them in their efforts.

It is relatively easy to give to those who are like oneself. It is much harder to give to those who are different. Different because they do not look like us, act like us, talk like us, or think like us. But for that very reason these are the acts of giving that mean the most not just to those who receive but to those who give. Amazing how in the us we find them and in them we find us. The RFC was started by Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Julius and Ethel were executed in 1953 by the U.S. government in a fit of federal paranoia. Robert Meeropol channeled his feelings in what he calls "constructive revenge", taking the natural human reaction to personal injustice and channeling it into a force for good. Please visit their site even if only to see the what making a difference truly looks like.

Over 70,000 open source software projects are hosted by the folks at SourceForge. Among these projects are a large number of heavy hitters such as the expat XML parser. Consider contributing to support a true development community.