Real Estate That Keeps It Real: Triumph Charity

Squidoo.com is a website that allows users to make their own page-- it's a bit like myspace in that it's user generated content. The big difference is that the money raised from every page on Squidoo.com can be donated to a non-profit of your choice. You get a statement at the end of every month that tells you how much money your page donated, and you can even write the donation amount off on your taxes at the end of the year. Not bad, eh?

Triumph Property is on Squidoo as Triumph Charity-- check out their page (called a "lens") at www.squidoo.com/triumphproperty. Make your own lens, or even a thousand lenses (there's no limit) and send the url to talia(at)triumphproperty.com so we can link to you.

The blurb they wrote on their lens sums things up nicely, and we hope other real estate companies will follow suit:

We have 5 offices in New York, filled with busy people designing, marketing, buying, and selling property. Our goal is to help others live beautifully, and that takes a lot of people, time, energy, and money. But what about those who don't have the same resources or opportunities that many of the rest of us have? We're not elitist snobs who have forgotten about the rest of the world-- Triumph is a real estate group that keeps it real. That's where Triumph Charity comes in: every month, we'll choose a non profit organization to donate our Squidoo funds to (feel free to e mail us your recommendations).Our goal is to have 500 people make 1 lens on Squidoo (it takes 10 minutes and can be about anything-- property, ice cream flavors, your puppy-- you name it). Every lens on Squidoo will earn money through Google ads and things you link (use the Amazon module to recommend books, the i tunes module to recommend music, etc. You get the idea).Whenever someone buys a product through your link,the sponsoring comany will send funds to the Triumph Charity non-profit. And at the end of every month, you'll get a statement saying how much your lens earned for charity-- feel free to write it off on your taxes.Skeptical that a little change can add up enough to make a difference? Check out the math:If every lens earns 50 cents a day, and 500 people take 10 minutes to make 1 lens, that will equal almost $100,000 per year.Not bad for 10 minutes of "work"! In 5 years, that amount turns in to almost half a million.
Lenses never go away, so they'll be earning money for charities for as long as the internet and google exist.Don't feel limited to only making 1 lens- you can make a 1,000 if you want. The more the better!

PS: Squidoo doesn't send spam, so no worries about signing up.