I stumbled across these two sites when reading some blogs today. I’ve always been a fan of sites that try to be philanthropic, but in a smart, business-like way.
Changing the Present (http://changingthepresent.org/) is a place where you can “shop” for causes you want to donate to and also create wish lists for your friends and family (mine is http://changingthepresent.org/profiles/show/172).
Through Changing the Present, I found CarbonFund.org (http://www.carbonfund.org/site/), an organization that basically lets you offset your carbon emissions by buying them back off the emissions offset markets and retiring them, or by funding a renewable energy project.
