How many times have you watched the news and felt helpless as to what hardships are occurring our world? Well now CNN isn’t just presenting the news, its also presenting ways to
takepart with their ‘Impact Your World’ project. ‘Impact’ buttons on selected CNN.com stories link audiences to resource pages where they can help charitable organizations in categories including Refugees & Homelessness,Poverty,Health, Children, Animals, and Natural Disasters.

For example the heartbreaking story of Afghanistan’s children working the streets for basic survival (Watch the video by clicking here) links to the Aschiana Foundation where you can takepart improve the lives of the street children in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan.

‘Impact Your World’ will also link viewers and readers to support individual causes (ie: a family trying to recover from fire damage).

I love that more and more newsy sources (ahem like this blog you’re reading right now connects concerned readers with Take Part links) are using the power of increased technology to increase awareness and make a difference. News is no longer passive.

Get more info on CNN’s ‘Impact Your World’ program at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/