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Operation Smile and Free Wheelchair Mission Partner with Freelanthropy.com.


LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- Freelanthropy, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
. (www.freelanthropy.com), a free web-search program that allows people to give to charity by searching the Internet, today announced that it has formed partnerships with two leading nonprofit organizations Nonprofit Organization

An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well.

Notes:
Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools.
, Operation Smile and Free Wheelchair Mission Free Wheelchair Mission is a Christian missionary organization that seeks to help disabled people in developing countries by providing them with free wheelchairs. This organization was founded in 1999 by Don Schoendorfer, who has a PhD in mechanical engineering. .

"Our mission is to help make a difference for charities," said Freelanthropy Founder and President Dan Sheehy. "We're looking to fill a gap in the market and want to create a philanthropic legacy through this unique business model."

Freelanthropy's free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc.

See also: Free
 help its nonprofit partners stay connected with donors and supporters while generating funds for their causes for free through simple Internet searches powered by Yahoo!. When individuals conduct searches through the Yahoo-powered search engine at www.freelanthropy.com, funds are donated for free directly to their favorite charity - which they select prior to conducting the search.

Freelanthropy's nonprofit partners and their supporters also benefit from the free customized toolbar A toolbar that can be custom configured by the user. Buttons can be added and deleted as required.  that Freelanthropy provides. Each toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the  includes the organization's logo, links to their site and a programmable news feed to update supporters on the organization's news and events. The toolbar also includes Yahoo! Search This article is about the Yahoo! Search Engine. For the corporation, see Yahoo! ; for other uses see Yahoo! (disambiguation).

The search engine
Introduction
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo!, Inc.
 and online shopping links which also generate revenue for the organization each time they're used.

"With just a handful of people making this one small change in their online behavior -- searching Yahoo through the Free Wheelchair Mission Toolbar, from the Yahoo search box on our site, or searching from Freelanthropy.com -- we can provide another wheelchair each month to someone that desperately needs it," said Free Wheelchair Mission Founder and President Don Schoendorfer. "There is no cost or registration, so there's really no reason not to."

Search engines generated almost $6 billion in 2005 alone. With just 100 supporters using Freelanthropy's services, the company projects that a nonprofit organization could earn more than $1,500 annually.

"Freelanthropy provides our supporters with a new way to stay connected with Operation Smile every day, while also supporting us financially virtually every time they go online," said Eric Overman o·ver·man  
n.
1. A person having authority over others, especially an overseer or a shift supervisor.

2. See superman.

tr.v.
, Operation Smile's Internet Marketing See Internet advertising.  Manager. "Freelanthropy provided everything to us in a way that was simple to integrate and use - and free - which made the program a very easy choice for us. Now every time one of our supporters searches Yahoo! through the different options that Freelanthropy provides our organization benefits financially."

For more information, or to learn how to become a nonprofit partner with Freelanthropy, visit www.freelanthropy.com, email info@freelanthropy.com, or call 626-771-3556.

About Freelanthropy

Freelanthropy, LLC. (www.freelanthropy.com) is an online services provider of innovative branding, communications and fundraising solutions for a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, including Operation Smile and Free Wheelchair Mission. For more information please contact Freelanthropy at 626-771-3556 or info@freelanthropy.com.

About Operation Smile

Founded in 1982, Operation Smile (www.operationsmile.com) is a worldwide children's medical charity dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children and young adults worldwide. Since its founding, Operation Smile has treated more than 100,000 children with facial deformities in 25 countries and currently works in: Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gaza Strip/West Bank, Honduras, India, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , Thailand, Venezuela and Vietnam. In addition to offering reconstructive surgery reconstructive surgery
n.
Plastic surgery.


reconstructive surgery,
n surgery to rebuild a structure for functional or esthetic reasons.
, Operation Smile provides education and training around the world to physicians and other health care professionals to promote long-term self-sufficiency. Operation Smile also provides a network of resources to assist families in the U.S. with children born with facial deformities. Accessed through the Operation Smile Web site, the network includes a list of Referral Web Sites and a Physicians Resource List. Operation Smile has been distinguished by many prestigious awards, including the first $1 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize is the largest humanitarian award in the world. It is equal in monetary value to one of the six Nobel Prizes awarded annually.

The creation of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize by the Conrad N.
 to recognize outstanding contributions made to alleviate human suffering.

About Free Wheelchair Mission

Free Wheelchair Mission, the Orange County, California-based nonprofit organization, is committed to providing the transforming gift of mobility to the physically disabled poor in developing countries. Free Wheelchair Mission creatively partners with like-minded international humanitarian and indigenous organizations and plans to distribute 20 million wheelchairs by the year 2010. Started in 2001, the organization has distributed more than 145,000 wheelchairs worldwide. For more information, visit: www.freewheelchairmission.org.
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