I have registered Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, Inc. as participant in Goodsearch.com and Goodshop.com as a new source of funding to us. This works very simply. As a computer user who searches and/or makes purchases on-line, you have an opportunity to increase the revenue flow to Scale Rails by doing what you already do and at no cost to you. First you must register with Goodsearch.com to designate your favorite Charity (I recommend you choose Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, Inc., of course.) When you do an on-line search, use Goodsearch. When you make an on-line purchase, use Goodshop to get to the online merchant. GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up! GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates as little as 1% to as much as 37% of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause. This is so easy because you just keep doing what you already do and money flows! Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, Inc. as the charity you want to support. Click the button that adds Goodsearch toolbar to your browser (its painless and fast) so you always have the search tool as your preferred way to search the internet, designate Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, Inc. as your favorite charity, and search to your hearts content. And, be sure to spread the word! Need to do some Christmas shopping? Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/goodshop.aspx, designate Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, Inc. as your favorite charity, and then select on of the many on-line stores listed (it even shows the % of purchase to get's donated) For example, Best Buy is 1.5%, HP is 2%, Apple is 1%, Nordstrom is 1.5%, and Williams-Sonoma is 2%. So get busy stimulating the economy and helping Scale Rails at the same time.

Program Update:

I am forwarding this message from Good Search/Good Shop, and asking each of you to click on the link to download the Good Search tool bar.  Then enter your favorite charity where noted on the tool bar.  My favorite is Scale Rails of Southwest Florida (N. Fort Myers, FL).  If that is your favorite also, please enter it exactly as I have stated it so that it is recognized by Good Search.  Then when ever you use the search feature (which uses Yahoo search) a penny is donated to our club.  Also, when ever you shop on-line, using the Good Shop part of the tool bar, a donation of a percentage of your purchase will go to the Club.  This does not cost you anything at all.

Please take advantage of this opportunity to enhance the revenue stream to the Club without having to do anything other than what you already do on the computer.