Reading newspaper articles about tragedies and in Africa made Elizabeth Stein, editor in chief of the student newspaper at Hunter College in New York City, want to cry. With literally only $1 in her checking account, Ms. Stein felt helpless about addressing the issues of hunger on the continent.
伊丽莎白•斯坦(Elizabeth Stein)是纽约亨特学院(Hunter College)学生报的主编，她每每读到报纸上在非洲发生的种种惨剧时总想哭泣。对于支票账户空空如也的斯坦女士而言，她不知道如何才能为解决非洲的饥荒问题尽一份力。
But then she discovered The Hunger Site (www.thehungersite.com), one of several websites where people can make a donation to a charity without spending a dime. The "it's free" tab is a welcome sign for Americans like Stein, whose hearts happen to be bigger than their wallets. "I love that I can help someone for free," she says.
不过，她发现了饥荒网(Hunger Site: www,thehungersite.com)，该网站是众多类似网站之一，人们在这里可以为慈善团体做出贡献，而不需要花一分钱。该网站的“免费”标签欢迎斯坦等美国人的到来，这些人的爱心胜于金钱。斯坦说，“在这里我可以免费帮助某人，我喜欢这里。”
Launched in 1999 and operated with five other similar sites by CharityUSA based in Seattle, The Hunger Site raises money for charities through sponsors whose ads appear after visitors click on certain links. After The Hunger Site became hugely successful, CharityUSA opened other sites, including The Breast Cancer Site and The Animal Site. CharityUSA sites primarily do not advertise their sites, but President Tim Kunin says they sometimes use Google ads to promote products the site sells to raise additional money for charities.
慈善美国(CharityUSA)总部位于西雅图，它在1999年创办了饥荒网站，并经营着其他五个类似的网站。赞助商在饥荒网发布广告，饥荒网通过访客点击这些广告的特定链接，来为慈善团体募集资金。在饥荒网获得极大的成功之后，慈善美国开通了其他网站，包括乳癌网(Breast Cancer Site)和动物网(Animal Site)。一般而言，各慈善网站并不会刊登广告，但总裁提姆•库林(Tim Kuni)表示，他们有时会用谷歌的广告来促销网站所出售的产品，以此为慈善团体募集更多的资金。