Thanks to Daphne Gray-Grant’s newsletter Power Writing, I’ve discovered the greatest website ever, because its developers have made it possible to give and to get at the same time!

You may already be familiar with FreeRice.com, but if you’re not, here’s how it works. You visit the site and challenge your vocabulary by selecting the correct definition for each new word. Every time you get the correct definition, the site donates 20 grains of rice to feed the world’s hungry people. So, the more time you spend enhancing your vocabulary, the more food you give to those less fortunate.

A host of advertisers support the site, and thus the food donations, but unlike most sites like this, the ads are tasteful banners at the bottom of the page, and they rotate with each new vocabulary word.

Another cool feature is that you can set the options to save your information, including your vocabulary level, so each time you return you see not only how much rice you’ve donated, but whether or not your vocabulary rating is improving.

It’s a win-win situation, so if you haven’t already made FreeRice.com a daily habit, what are you waiting for?