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Added descriptions and moved Feed The Village and Print N Post up to Sites which let you earn passive income

Personally, I don't like Feed the Village. They're not the only site donating to charity, and if you take the 10% they donate and add that to the 10% they pay out to writers, that's only 20% they're paying out. In contrast sites like Squidoo and Triond pay out 50% of the revenue they earn to writers. And Squidoo even pays out an additional 5% of their total revenue to charity and doesn't attempt to make a marketing gimmick out of it. You could decide to give half of what you earn on Squidoo or Triond to charity and both you and the charity of your choice would still come out ahead earnings-wise compared to writing for Feed the Village.

Print N Post, on the other hand, might be worth taking a look at.

True, it's a site where you earn via having Google Adsense displayed on your articles (which means a high payout threshold of $100USD for those of you who care about payout thresholds), the community isn't very large so you won't be getting read a lot by traffic within the site itself, and the Page Rank for Print N Post isn't very impressive so natural traffic from search engines will be low.

But.

They do allow linking in your articles, and those are quality links e.g not "nofollow" links. Which makes Print n Post useful for publishing excerpts to your blog entries/articles published elsewhere.

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