With the help of Angie's List, consumers can quickly find the service provider they need to make an emergency repair to their car, complete a major home improvement project, or even plan a wedding or take the best care of their pet.

Angie's List has been added to the sites available in the Shop / Give menu.

Audible.com has been added to the list of available merchants.

Do you have a suggestion to make the Toolbar better? Do you have a link, or a merchant that you would like to see? Please contact us and help make the Toolbar and even more useful tool for doing good.

BackCountry.com has been added as a new merchant.

We just added Bass Pro Shops as a new merchant in the Sports / Recreation area.

We have added Interstate Batteries as a merchant, located in the electronics section of the Shop / Give menu.

We added a sub-menu in the Shop / Give menu that allows you to make direct donations to the charities that DoGoodToolbar.com is contributing to this month:

1. Doctors Without Borders, USA 2. Mercy Corps 3. The Humane Society of the United States . 4. The Robin Hood Foundation, 5. Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans (Helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina).


Just to reiterate, and to avoid any confusion, the DoGoodToolbar.com is not affiliated with these charities in any way. We simple send checks to charities based on total revenue generated by the Toolbar.

We just added American Express as a merchant.

We are working on updating our MySpace page and putting together some YouTube videos.

The MySpace page should be completely done by the end of the week. The YouTube videos might take a little longer. We are really excited about them. Stay tuned.

Hi: Thanks for checking in. We launched this site on Monday, February 5, 2007 . We are very excited, motivated, and inspired to harness the power of the Internet to help others.

For those wondering what we are doing. It is really very simple:

Merchants pay us a commission when you click on a link in the toolbar and buy something. For example, at JewelryTelevision.com, 4% of your purchase price gets donated to charity. We receive a portion of the revenue to help with operating costs, toolbar and software development, administrative expenses, as well as employee and contractor expenses. At least 50% of revenues will be donated to charity. Our goal, once we reach sufficient volume, is to donate over 90% of revenues to charity. Without naming names, other similar sites donate as little as 10% of their profit to charity.


So, why did we do this?

We were listening to NPR one day and heard a show on the topic of social entrepreneurship. The show was about how we can use capitalism and business in order to benefit the lives of others. The radio show was motivating and it made us passionate about harnessing the power of the Internet in order to help others online.

On the radio show, they called 2007 the "Year of Doing Good". That's how the Do Good^TM Toolbar was born. We hope that just by shopping online, you can Do Good^TM , at no extra cost to you. Think about it: Just by doing what you normally do, shopping online, you can help other people and Do Good^TM in the world.

If there is one thing that *you* can do. It is to help spread the word. Link to us, email your friends, or Add Us As Your MySpace Friend.

The Do Good Toolbar is growing, but we need your help.

We are adding more merchants all the time and always adding new features to the Toolbar.

Obviously, you can check back here for updates. There will be plenty.

Here are a just few of the things we are working on:

1. Adding more merchants

2. Adding Coupons / Deals to the toolbar

3. Adding Direct Donations to the toolbar

If you can think of anything else, please contact us. We would love to hear from you.

And remember, Do Good!