Those of you who are paying BubbleTimer customers know that 5% of the revenue (about 7% after credit card fees) from every paid BubbleTimer account goes to charity. You also know that you get to pick the charity your payment will benefit. To everyone that has paid for BubbleTimer so far, I sincerely appreciate your payment and the 3 charities appreciate it as well.

Here is how BubbleTimer's customer's decided to allocate their contributions:

I make the payments to the charities quarterly, and for this first quarter I decided to give the "Snooty Monkey Decides" portion to the most popular choice, Child's Play Charity. In the future I may split that portion up evenly or give it to the International Primate Protection League or the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Maybe you've become a little immune to this kind of company giving. It is relatively common after all. You should realize though that typically when you've seen this kind of program, it's been a percentage of profits. I've decided to give a percentage of product revenue instead. This means even if BubbleTimer loses money, the charities still benefit all the same. (For the record, BubbleTimer has lost money to date.)

I wrote this post because I think which charity other people chose is probably pretty interesting to you. I also bring it up because I'm about to announce an additional way BubbleTimer users can help these charities. Stay tuned for the big announcement this week.