Making it easier to give is the goal of DonorEdge, a Kansas City-based Web site that serves as a clearinghouse for nonprofit organizations in the city’s greater metropolitan area.

A creation of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the site is a model for how to make individual philanthropy easy and effective. It not only provides a wealth of information about individual nonprofits; it also enables donors to give right on the spot, via the Web site. The model already has been duplicated in Central Tennessee and Houston and deserves wider emulation.

Visit it at www.donoredge.org