Blog Yahoo! for Good blog. A place to find fundraising and volunteering opportunities and a space to tell us what you've been dong to make a positive impact in the world.

Energy Saving Week launches 20th October. For some energy saving news, tips, advice and competitions take a peak at Yahoo! Green.

Do you have the mental and physical strength to enter the ultimate global adventure race? If so, there is still time to apply for the free-to-enter Land Rover G4 Challenge - the adventure of a lifetime that combines off-road driving with kayaking, mountain biking, abseiling, climbing and orienteering across one of the most sparsely populated countries on the planet – Mongolia?

The 2008/09 Land Rover G4 Challenge programme is run in support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. This partnership aims to generate in excess of £1m over the course of the next two challenges. The winning team will receive a Land Rover to donate to their National Society.

Applications to representing the UK close on 30 September 2008 so don't delay and apply at www.landroverg4challenge.com.

If you have ever wanted to do a parachute jump here is your chance! TCT are looking for hundreds of adventurous volunteers to make a fundraising parachute jump and if you raise enough in sponsorship you'll get the jump for free! Every day in the UK, 6 teenagers or young people (between the ages of 13 and 24) will find out they have cancer, that’s 2,200 new cases a year. Teenage Cancer Trust builds specialist units in NHS hospitals where teenagers and young adults can be treated with others their own age.

handbag.com and Cancer Research UK have joined together to bring you the first ever Handbag Amnesty. Donate your old favourite handbag to one of our shops and then pick up a fab celebrity handbag on our eBay site! Out with the old, in with the new! Read more

Charity Technology Trust is running a video training course designed for charities and not for profit organisations. The 3-day training course covers all the steps of the process: pre-production, production and post production. The dates for the next training course are 15th September, 26th September and 2nd October. Read more

Bmycharity have teamed up with Click and Jump to offer the most convenient way to do a tandem skydive for free for charity. This is a new concept in charity skydiving where Bmycharity have automated the fundraising and registration process to make it easier for you. All you have to do is set up a Bmycharity page and reach your target. Read more

If you think that people need to change the way they behave to be a bit greener, if you think that a short film can inspire people to change the way they behave and if you’re a student and think that you can make a great short film then bingo – you should enter the Short Green Things Film Competition and win glory, fame and other such stuff...Read more

Forty volunteers from Yahoo! helped renovate the dance hall and internet café in the Waterloo Action Centre, and through Living Space worked with 6 local community groups to provide guidance and assistance on upgrading their websites. Liz Conroy, Centre Manager was delighted with how things had gone “it was a mind-blowing day – the amount of work that happened in one day was incredible, and the change to centre is great!” Read more

Welcome to the Yahoo! for Good blog. We wanted to create a space where we can post interesting, fun, creative ways you can support the causes that interest you. However, we also want to hear your stories. So please, whether you're a charity, a group or an individual let us know what good deeds you're doing so we can share them with the world! Thanks.