As a broke college student, you may want to give back but simply can't find the time or the money. No matter what your interests or what charities you support, there is something that you can do today to help change the world. Apps make it easy to change the world when you are on the go, and you can browse a website for a few minutes when checking emails. Here are some great ways to give back without breaking the bank.
1. Go for a run
If you like to run, walk, or bike, you can do good for your body and your favorite charity at the same time with the app Charity Miles. Charity Miles donates between $0.10 and $0.25 to your chosen charity each time you run, walk, or bike a mile. There are over 30 charities to choose from, such as World Wildlife Fund, Autism Speaks, and Soles4Souls.
2. Improve your vocabulary
If you're studying for the GRE or simply wanting to expand your vocabulary, you may want to check out Free Rice. Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program for every correct answer.
3. Play trivia 
In addition to vocabulary, Free Rice allows you to test your knowledge in subjects like chemistry and geography. If Free Rice's mission of ending world hunger is appealing to you, you can also help fight world hunger by answering questions at Hunger Notes and Feeding America.
If you care about the environment and want to help plant trees without leaving your couch, Answer 4 Earth may be a great site for you. Every correct answer helps plant a tree. You would need to answer 180 questions correctly to plant an entire tree.
If you're an animal lover, you can answer questions to help feed animals at Free Kibble for Dogs and Free Kibble for Cats.
4. Click a button
That's right–you can donate to charity by simply clicking a button.
You can help fight world hunger, provide animals with food and care, fund mammograms for women in need, support diabetes research, give books to children, support children with autism spectrum disorder, support Alzheimer's research, protect wildlife habitat, or help homeless veterans at the click of a button. You can do this every day!
Through Care2, you have even more causes to choose from, including global warming, violence against women, threatened wolves.
5. Surf the web
For each search, Goodsearch gives a penny to charity.
If using a search engine isn't appealing, you can install the Tab for a Cause browser extension that donates to your favorite cause each time you open a new tab. Water.org, Action Against Hunger, and Human Rights Watch are some of the causes you can choose from.
6. Carry your phone with you
With the Give 2 Charity app, you can earn points for just carrying your phone with you. Once you have enough points, your points can be converted into a charitable donation. Habitat for Humanity, American Cancer Society, and ALS Association are three of the seven charities you can donate to.
5. Take pictures 
If you like posting pictures on Instagram, you may be happy to know that the app Donate a Photo will give $1 to your chosen charity for each picture you upload. Causes include Save the Children, American Diabetes Association, The Trevor project, and many more.
6. Donate your insurance
We can't ever win with insurance rates, but we can opt to donate part of our insurance to charity at no cost to us or our chosen charity. Givesurance allows you to give up to 5% of your insurance payment back as donation credit so you can donate it to charity.
7. Watch short ads
If you have an extra minute to spare, you can watch short ads at Goodeed. Goodeed lets you to watch at least 20 seconds of three ads per day and donates to causes like education, hunger, and vaccines.
8. Play games
If you like playing computer games, you should give LoveGiving a try. LoveGiving donates 100% of the game advertising revenue acquired from the time you spent playing a game. These donations pay for food, water, and tuition for poverty-stricken children. Pool is one of the games you can play, and more games are coming soon.
9. Buy things from Amazon
If you use Amazon a lot, you might as well start using Amazon Smile. Amazon Smile will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible Amazon Smile items to your chosen charity. There are almost a million charities to choose from.
10. Sign a petition
While you're taking a break from doing homework, you can browse Change.org and sign petitions to help stimulate change.
11. Be a virtual volunteer
If you have ever wanted to volunteer but simply can't find the time, it may be easier for you to be a virtual volunteer. Skills for Change will match your skills and interests to e-volunteering challenges posted by nonprofit organizations.
12. Be an Online Mentor
With Infinite Family, you have the opportunity to mentor a teen from Africa. Mentoring would include a 5-6 hour online training session that can be completed at any time and a 30 minute weekly video session. You must be at least 21 years old to do this.
