click-to-help sites

While traveling, I dropped my habit of visiting these click-to-help sites. Part of it was not having the links in front of me, so here are the ones I was visiting regularly:

• The Hunger Site
  
• The Breast Cancer Site
  
• The Child Health Site
  
• The Rain Forest Site
  
• The Animal Rescue Site

Of course, visiting any one of those will give you the links to the others, so maybe that's a bit overcomplete. According to the hoax-debunking site Snopes.com, The Hunger Site is legitimate, so I expect the others are as well. Snopes also lists FreeDonation.com as offering more opportunities to help various causes just by clicking web links.

It feels to me like if the folks who set up these sites are going to make it this easy to help people just by lending a tiny bit of my attention, I have to make it a priority to visit these sites daily to maintain any self-esteem. To make the routine even easier on myself, I keep a browser open to The Hunger Site in a VNC session, and have it set to reject all images from these sites. So I can go through the day's click-to-help links in about a minute.

These all remind me a little of Amnesty International, which identifies where people can send letters to help stop torture, making it almost hard not to help. Except I find myself helping with all too few Amnesty letter writing campaigns. So it's apparent to me that even someone who feels strongly about such causes can succumb to inertia.

Are there still more online efforts to make helping too easy for even people as phlegmatic as me?