The ACES Education Fund has registered with GoodSearch, a search engine that donates 50 percent of its advertising revenues to charities designated by its users. Add www.goodsearch.com to your favorites list, then designate the Education Fund as your charity and search as you would anywhere else. The results will be supplied by Yahoo.
Every time you use GoodSearch, the fund will get about a penny. If all 635 ACES members used the service to conduct an average of two searches a day (how hard is that for a copy editor?), the fund would earn about $3,300 a year.
And if all 635 ACES members spent an average of $500 a year at GoodShop, a related service that provides deals at hundreds of merchants — among them Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Dell, Lands’ End, Macy’s, Microsoft, Office Depot, Ralph Lauren and Staples — the fund would earn about $9,500 a year.
That total, $12,800, is as much as the fund has raised in any year since its inception. So support education! Get searching … and shopping!
If you use Firefox or another modern browser that has a built-in search bar, you can add Goodsearch as a plug-in. To install it, go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9674.
You can also add a toolbar to your Internet Explorer. See the tutorial at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbars.aspx.
