Giving back at no cost to you

If you feel bad for not being able to help others or give to charity because you’re a “poor college student”, you’re in luck because there are ways to give back at no cost to yourself.

AmazonSmileAmazonSmile is an Amazon site on which you can shop as normal as though it were Amazon itself with the “same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com,” according to their website.

According to Amazon, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5 percent of the purchase price of eligible products to the the charity of your choice -- with no extra cost.

Freerice

At freerice.com, by simply answering simple academic questions, you are helping to fight hunger.

“Freerice is a 100% non-profit website that is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme. Freerice has two goals: provide education to everyone for free and help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free,” they stated in their website.

With categories such as vocabulary and grammar, math, humanities, geography, different languages, anatomy and even SAT preparation, each time a question is answered correctly, the banner ad on the site generates “enough money for the World Food Programme to buy 10 grains of rice to help reach Zero Hunger,” according to the site.

Since FreeRice began on October 7, 2007, it has generated over  97,828,139,358 grains of rice.

 

Swagbucks

Using Swagbucks either online or on the app, you can answer surveys, watch videos, shop, play games, donate and more to earn Swagbucks points.

Money earned through the Swagbucks can either be given through gift cards of PayPal. Users also have the option to use the points earned to donate to charity.