Week 3 EOC: Making Money For Good

Making money is fine, but using your money for good is probably the most important thing you could do with your company. And while a lot of companies donate to charities, there are some companies that work almost exclusively as charities.

1. (Product) Red-- RED is the company working to deliver an AIDS free generation by 2015. By partnering with some of the biggest companies in the country along with governement groups, it ensures that a percentage of every dolar you spend with your favorite stores (Apple, Gap, and Converse to name a few) will go to the Global Fund to Eliminate AIDS in Africa and 70 other countries.
2. Ethos Water Fund--Nearly a million people across the world don't have clean drinking water. Ethos Water Fund (by Starbucks) hopes to change all that. Giving 5 cents of every bottle of Ethos water you purchase, to the Ethos Water Fund. And while that may not seem like a lot, since it's inception it's raised more than $6 million dollars helping more than 420,000 people around the world.
3. Autism Speaks--Autism Speaks is a chairty who's goal is to help change the future for children and families effected by Autism. Through funding new medical research technologies and raising public awareness about Autism. So far they have special coprerate relationships with (Toys R Us, Chevrolet, Build-A-Bear Workshop and Home Depot to name a few).

All of these companies/charities are working hard to help those in need and change the way we look at charity and giving. Whether it's clean water, helping stop the spread of HIV/AIDs or helping children with Autism, they're working hard to make a difference in the world for the better. I'd like to see more well known companies working with these groups to make a difference.