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"Apple this week launched a new program for its employees in which the company will match personal charitable contributions of up to $10,000 per year."

The first big thing from Tim Cook, and they match dollar for dollar and employee's donation to any 501(c) charity, up to $10,000.00 per year. US full-time employees only at this time. Or perhaps it is something Jobs was working on when he had to retire from full-time work at Apple? I guess it doesn't matter, it's a nice thing to do.

"Seth Dillingham is once again riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge and is selling a plethora of Mac software to "sponsor" his ride. Anything you spend on the software gets donated directly to the PMC, which supports the Dana Farber Cancer Institute."

Simple enough, head over to his website and pick the software you like from his long list of donated software. Then place a bid on the software, and if he accepts, you get the code and the charity gets the money. There are limits on how many are available (when I checked there was one copy of BBedit available and 15 copies of Cover Sutra and 1Password was sold out), and the programs range from Office for Mac to iPhone/iPod Touch apps. All funds go to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Massachusetts.

"GiantCrayon Games today announced it will partner with the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) to raise money for animals through a first-of-its-kind promotion during March and April 2009. This is the first time an iPhone game has been used as lynchpin of a fundraising campaign. All fundraising efforts will be related to GiantCrayon's ShiveringKittens iPhone game, which is sure to delight cat lovers. For every copy of ShiveringKittens sold, GiantCrayon will donate $1 to the ASPCA."

If you remember, we did a review of Shivering Kittens when it first came out and it's a pretty solid and fun game. Now if you buy it, you get to help real kittens. In fact, it's one of very few games that hasn't suffered the old "I'm bored of it, good bye" thing that most games I've downloaded have gone through. Pick up a copy today, will ya?