May 7, 2013 2 min read

The Washington County Community Foundation will host a Web-based contest in June for charities that have registered to participate in its upcoming WCCF Gives day of giving. The winning organizations will receive a total of $3,000 in unrestricted grants from the Foundation’s Acorn Fund.

The “Clicks for Cash” contest will be held from June 10-23. Members of the community are encouraged to visit www.wccfgives.org, go to the “Charity Search” section of the site, and click on the charity profile pages of their favorite WCCF Gives participants.

The charity that receives the most unique pageviews during the contest period will receive a $1,000 unrestricted grant. A “unique pageview” is defined as one visit from a single ISP address. Additionally, the WCCF will use the contest results to distribute four $500 unrestricted grants based on a lottery. Each charity will receive one chance for each unique pageview, so the more unique pageviews a charity receives, the more chances that charity will have in the lottery. A computer program will choose the lottery winners at random.

“The ‘Clicks for Cash’ contest was designed as an exciting way to help charities registered for WCCF Gives practice generating traffic to their charity profile pages on www.wccfgives.org,” stated Betsie Trew, WCCF president and chief executive officer. “We see it as a ‘dress rehearsal’ for WCCF Gives day, and it is our hope that this contest will ultimately help our charities experience greater success on September 10.

Qualified 501(c)(3) charities that have not yet registered for WCCF Gives are encouraged to do so by May 31 so that they may participate in the contest. For complete criteria, please visit www.wccfgives.org.