Yes, IKEA is technically a charity. But before you write down the umlaut-riddled name of your most recent dresser purchase as a charitable donation on your next tax return, it’s worth exploring this ownership structure, which was reported by a 2006 article in The Economist.
GoDaddy Gives Millions to Charities
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Dec. 27, 2007) – What’s good for Go Daddy is good for the community. This year’s financial success for the world’s largest provider of Web site addresses is translating into big dollars for charities and for the company’s own employees.
For the year, Go Daddy’s philanthropic works totaled $1.4 million in donations alone. The Scottsdale-based company helped organizations dedicated to a variety of causes, including domestic violence, child abuse, blind children, unwed mothers, homelessness, as well as Parkinson’s disease, Juvenile Diabetes, food banks and animal shelters.
“It’s important to us to make a difference in our community and all over the world,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons.
Mr. Parsons is known for his ‘surprise’ contributions, as with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF). At the JDRF Desert Southwest Chapter’s kick-off luncheon in September, Parsons was expected to announce the company’s $100,000 donation, but after listening to stories of families affected by the disease, he surprised everyone by standing up and pledging twice the amount.
Parsons also doubled his donation to needy children in Tucson, Arizona this month. He did it in style too, while riding his Harley-Davidson as the Grand Marshall for the Sun Riders 26th Annual Motorcycle Toy Parade benefiting Aviva Children’s Services.
Go Daddy’s own employees have also benefited from the company’s most successful year ever. More than $1 million was awarded to employees in 2007. Employee prizes included cash, cars, a year’s mortgage paid, a four-year college scholarship and a trip around the world that included 20-paid vacation days and $10,000 spending money.
“We learned a long time ago, happy employees are productive employees,” Parsons said after the company’s holiday party this year. “We hold fun contests all throughout the whole year.”
Go Daddy rented out Chase Field for their holiday party, hired the Gin Blossoms to entertain and gave away gifts to each and every employee. The event was hailed as “the party to end all parties” at a time when most companies are scaling back.
To learn more about Go Daddy visit, www.GoDaddy.com.
About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and Web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 25 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.
Donate to charity by Playing Halo Fore
Contestants can earn $1 for charity just by playing a minigame, Halo Fore. Red v Blue takes Halo 3’s awesome red team vs. blue team multiplayer mayhem, and puts it to work fighting for charity.
Bruce Clay SEO Contest Winners
The Bruce Clay SEO firm has announced the winners of their charity focused SEO contest. Keri Morgret who partnered with Open Education, a nonprofit, to help them improve their Web site. One of the first SEO contests to actively support charities was the retsambew dash klat for charity SEO contest initiated by the Webmaster Talk Forums. Congrats to the winner and runner up and here’s what the Bruce Clay site had to say.
Bruce Clay Inc. celebrated the start of May by launching the first-ever Bruce Clay SEO Charity Contest. We challenged search marketers and wanna-be search marketers to donate their time to help a non-profit increase their visibility through a well-structured organic search engine optimization campaign. In return for their pledge to spend at least three months working with the non-profit of their choosing, the selected search marketer would receive a free pass to next month’s debut Search Marketing Expo conference in Seattle, as well as a free pass to Bruce Clay’s SEO training course and the Advanced Certification Course.
Failed Phil Harrison PS3 Auction at concert for Charity
Edge Magazine wanked this article because it threw Phil Harrison of Sony Computer Entertainment into a bad light. He tried to auction off a PS3 to a concert crowd in the name of charity, but it just looked crass.
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