Helping Kids Go Green

A cool website (Greenraising.com) was started by a group of parents who had observed how challenging it is for parents' associations to raise the funds necessary for their kids to get an excellent elementary education. These parents also had noted that their kids were coming home from school frustrated about not being able to actively participate in having an effect on what they had learned about pollution, global warming, and poor living conditions among some people around the world. The website was developed to help solve both problems.

Greenraising raises money for schools, and also gives kids an opportunity to learn that their actions can help make changes in the world. For anyone who is interested in other educational trends, such as how one charity, Children of the City is helping kids please check out the information on my own website at http://www.roccobasile.com/

Schools and non-profits like http://www.childrenofthecity.org/ can fill out an online application and in one to seven business days they will receive 25 percent of the sales from Web drives or 40 percent of sales from catalog drives directed to buyers who name their group as the beneficiary.

Things like recycled gift wrap paper, cleaning supplies, free-trade chocolate, even recycled rulers made out of old paper money that has been taken out of circulation by the government are available on the website.