The Irish are known as generous charitable givers. I am not.

I care for my family and I contribute funds to be used locally for my religion and I even drop a little in the cups of the beggars I encounter. I think that this is about the right level of financial giving for a guy without a great deal of income.

Now, though, I feel the need to give some thought to addressing charitable giving based on potential blogging income.

If you are a blogger, you might want to pick this idea up for yourself and pass it along.

Every month I am going to take the first $50.00 in ad revenue from each of my blogs and split it evenly between 1) the worldwide work of  my religion (they do a wonderful job of emergency response to natural disasters worldwide — where other relief organizations (including the US military) had relief crews into Haiti within days, Jehovah’s Witnesses had relief trucks and crews over the border from the Dominican Republic into Haiti within hours.) and 2) Kiva.org, a micro-finance arrangement that makes teeny-tiny loans to help start small businesses and fund essential education around the globe. Their overhead, often a problem with ‘charitable’ organizations (the American Red Cross is horrible in this regard!), seems relatively light. If things go sour with Kiva, I’ll find another micro-finance company to work with. I like the concept of helping people stand on their own two feet.

I think that if the United States would stop propping up puppet regimes, and start propping up people, it could reduce its army to not much more than a good-sized police force.

I intend to show it how by propping up a few people, myself.

I will also set aside 10% to the same two organizations of all earnings above that first $50.00.

That is, 100% of the first $50 gross and 10% of everything that follows. So, click away!

Whether you buy a book from Amazon or a poster from AllPosters, followup on a Kontera in-text ad, click on a sidebar ad or give an AdSense offer a closer look — whatever — you’ll be helping yourself to a good deal and a good cause. I can especially recommend Bluehost … they’ve done right by me for the past 4 5 6 years. I think I’ve had two tech support calls and both times they’ve cleared up the problem about as quickly as I could identify it. Their service has only gotten better but they haven’t jacked up the price the whole time.

When there are contributions to report … I’ll keep you in the loop.