# $6000 prize for the most blogged about charities - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/19/6000-prize-most-blogged-about-charities/ - Published: 2009-05-19T21:03:14+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake ![](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/files/images/news/Zemanta_bloggingforacause_1242766886. gif) Online publisher service Zemanta, together with the Social Innovation Greenhouse at Weber Shandwick have launched the “Blog For A Cause” competition offering $6,000 to the most blogged about charities.   [Zemanta](http://www.zemanta.com) is encouraging bloggers to dedicate a portion of their posts over the next few weeks to charitable causes close to their hearts. The company aims to inspire bloggers, regardless of the topics they normally write about, to give exposure to their favourite charities, to highlight the social power of the web. ## Advertisement   Zemanta will split the prize money between the five charities that get the most bloggers to endorse or feature them over the course of the month ending 6 June 2009.   To take part, bloggers have to cut and paste a shot element of HTML at the end of their post(s) about a charity, so that Zemanta can track entries to the competition.   Earlier this month Zemanta won second prize at the [Change The Web Challenge](http://www.socialactions.com/changetheweb), announced at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, for its Related Social Actions for Bloggers project. The project provides bloggers with contextually relevant actions (i.e. volunteer, sign a petition, donate) to include in their posts from over 50 websites such as VolunteerMatch, Idealist.org, and DonorsChoose.org.   Zemanta will be donating their $3,000 prize money to charities chosen via the “Blogging For A Cause” challenge, while the [Social Innovation Greenhouse at public relations agency Weber Shandwick](http://www.webershandwick.com/Default.aspx/Capabilities/SpecialtyServices/SocialInnovation-Greenhouse) will be matching that amount.   Ales Spetic, Zemanta’s CEO, said: “It doesn’t matter what you normally blog about, we want you to write at least one post this month about the cause or charity that matters the most to you.   “Encouraging more engagement and inspiring more conversations around civic actions is vital in this period of economic downturn, when charities need our help more than ever. With our Social Actions integration we wanted to make it really easy for bloggers everywhere to bring topical causes to their readers, as we know how effective blogging can be at spreading the word online about important issues.”   www.zemanta.com/bloggingforacause * **[Barclays to provide £9.5 million matched funding for Futurebuilders England Modernisation Fund](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/17/barclays-provide-95m-matched-funding-futurebuilders-england-modernisation-fund/)**( 17 June 2009) * **[£500,000 fund for Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch groups](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/18/500000-fund-neighbourhood-watch-and-home-watch-groups/)**( 18 June 2009) * **[GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards offer up to £35k to health charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/07/03/glaxosmithkline-impact-awards-offer-35k-health-charities/)**( 3 July 2009) ## Comments ### By: admin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/19/6000-prize-most-blogged-about-charities/#comment-3664 - Published: 2009-06-08T12:25:33+01:00 The winning charities are [Goods for Good](http://www.goods4good.org), [iSurvive](http://isurvive.org), [Wokai](http://www.wokai.org), [Global Voices Advocacy](http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org) and [Yoga Bear](http://www.yogabear.org). They will each receive a $1,200 share from the $6000 donated by Zemanta and Weber Shandwick. Over 60 charities were championed during the competition by over 400 bloggers, and these five inspired the most posts. Ales Spetic, Zemanta CEO, said: “We’ve been blown away by how successful this challenge was at inspiring conversations about, and deeper engagement with, a wide variety of charities and causes across the web. There are so many amazing new and independent charities out there making a difference using the power of the internet, and it’s been hugely exciting for us to help bring a spotlight to them”.