Book your hotel room through this innovative non-profit website and 5% of your hotel costs are donated directly to the charity of your choice.

Even better, you might even save money.

Conceived in 2005 by a tech-savvy group of young Dutch people, Charity Hotels.com wants to help you “donate while you sleep.”

The site is very similar to a standard hotel site, allowing you to search by city and date, or a specific hotel name.

Since the 5% donation is paid for by the hotels, it’s not necessarily more expensive to book through the site.

For some cities, there are a wide variety of hotels available, with Amsterdam, London, New York, and Las Vegas especially prominent.

In London, for example, you can choose from the relatively inexpensive Hotel 87 to a mid-range Best Western to upscale haunts like the the Grand at Trafalgar Square and the Cumberland.

And with CharityHotels.com, you’ve got a wide variety of charities to choose from, including the Red Cross, Unicef, Oxfam, Amnesty International, the World Wildlife Fund, and Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres).

To learn more about helping while you travel, check out our links for Voluntourism.

For more about traveling responsibly, visit our Responsible Travel section.