Inspire and support with the Cheering Spysee charity website

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By BrettJan 22nd, 2010

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Find inspiring people with Spysee. Help them make a difference with Cheer.Spysee

Spysee is a specialized search engine for finding people. It has has over 40 thousand profiles of people that you can browse and search. And it has its own charity site.

Cheering SPYSEE

Cheer.Spysee is the donation-based section of the social networking site Spysee, both of which are run by the company Ohma Inc.  Ohma Inc.’s president Ishida says:

We want to give support to young people who are doing good things.

In the U.S., a culture of giving small donations has taken root. It would be good if this kind of donation culture would take hold in Japan too.

…and with this thought he started Spysee.

Spysee also has a “cheer click” function that visitors can click to show their support for people on Spysee. Cheer.Spysee on the other hand has taken the “cheer click” one step further and made it possible to give donations to individuals.

On individual users pages there are "Accepting donations!" buttons so you can donate.

Most donations are given to people who are going out and trying to make a difference like sports players, artists, local activists, and journalists. When you read these people’s profiles you really begin to feel “I wanna help these people out!”

Cheer.Spysee is full of young people out there chasing their dreams.

Donating has three simple steps:

Step 1. Click the “Support Donation” button.

Step 2. On the Support Donation page pick a donation amount between 100 to 20 thousand yen (about 1 to 200 U.S. dollars), write a message, and go to the confirmation page.

Step 3. Make the payment via PayPal

Cheer.Spysee’s Support Donation page. Of each donation, 85% goes to the donated party and the remaining 15% goes to Ohma Inc. as a handling charge.

The great part about Cheer.Spysee is that it can be directly accessed from  Spysee and therefore it gets a lot of traffic. Spysee is so popular that it gets 100,000 hits a day. So, merely with a few clicks you can get to each person’s donation page. It is much more effective then trying to appeal for donations from just a personal website.

For all you people out there trying to achieve your dreams, why don’t you get yourself on Cheer.Spysee? (It is free to register, of course!) You can fill out your profile with all your own special pictures, blog links, and PR messages. Not only can you look forward to donations and loads of  “Cheer Clicks,” but you can also reaffirm your goals and as you look back at the goals you have achieved and you can come face to face with yourself.

• This article was translated by Brett from the original Japanese article by Momoko Kumagai (Nov 18, 2009)