What is the charity edition of the AnswerThon?

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Several times throughout the year, WikiAnswers challenge users in an AnswerThon - an organized event designed to foster the sharing of knowledge. During the AnswerThon, participants will answer as many questions as they can over 48 hours with the hopes of spreading knowledge and raising money for their favorite charity.

After registering for the WikiAnswers AnswerThon, you choose from a list of participating charitable organizations. Each participant then becomes part of a global team competing against other teams to win a donation for the charity of their choice.

The AnswerThon Charity Edition will run from July 26 to July 27 2008.

To sign up or get more information, visit http://wiki.answers.com/static/answerthon.html

The charities we're competing for include:

ArtWorks: ArtWorks provides children and young adults suffering from chronic and life-threatening illnesses, and their siblings, access to creative and performing arts programming which encourages the use of the creative process as a vehicle for healing, communication, self-expression, and personal development. ArtWorks seeks to empower, validate, and honor these children by offering them the hands-on experience and materials with which to create, as well as the opportunity to publicly share their artistic accomplishments.

Caring Bridge: CaringBridge® offers free, personalized websites that allow people to stay in touch with family and friends during a health crisis, treatment and recovery. The goal of the service is to ease the burden of keeping friends and family updated, while also providing a way for them to send their love, support and encouragement.

Global AIDS Alliance: The Global AIDS Alliance seeks to mobilize a comprehensive and compassionate response to the global AIDS crisis, while addressing the epidemic's fundamental links to social justice issues such as poverty and gender inequity. They demand faster, bolder action and concrete results for people living with HIV/AIDS and at risk of HIV infection.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS): LLS is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. Founded in 1949, they are relentless in pursuit of their mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

World of Good Development Organization: World of Good is focused on building strategies to substantially improve economic and social conditions for millions of artisans and their families living on less than $4 per day. Their organization promotes fair trade practices and invests in fair trade artisan communities around the world. They strive to educate US consumers and corporations about the benefits of engaging in ethical trade practices to bridge the gap between the global north and south. Key initiatives include catalyzing the development of transparent fair trade craft standards, promoting fair trade among craft trading companies and other community development projects.