Six Degrees of Charity

Kevin Bacon has taken the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game and is using it to do some good.

His charity-driven website, www.sixdegrees.org, is set up to enable people to buy a certificate as a gift for someone to donate to the charity of their choice. Partly run by the Network for Good, gift certificates or "Good Cards" can go toward over a million charities. When someone redeems their Good Card, they can search for their favorite charity, local or nationwide, by name, keyword and/or location. Certificates are available in $10, $25, $50 and $100 denominations and you can choose to have the card mailed (makes a great stocking stuffer) or emailed to the recipient.

The site was started in January 2007 and already has contributed over $2.4 million to charities. With the world in peril and the U.S. in the worst economic crisis since the Depression, charities and organizations that help people are more important than ever - so if you if there's someone on your list who seems to have everything or if you want to give something meaningful this holiday season, check it out.