Participants will be eligible to win Xbox 360's, $200 ticket vouchers from TicketStumbler, a new Dell Computer, so much schwag you'll be able to hold a one-man expo. Reddit is even allowing you to partner up with them by donating 'something awesome;' no left over pork chops or chicken rice please.

-- The Huffington Post

I've been a devout follower of Reddit's irreverent, bacon-loving site for a long time. Now I've got just that much more reason to love them (sorry, Digg--what's this about enhancing your revenue stream with another ad product? I'm afraid it's over between us.)

Clearly, Reddit is onto something here. They already have a huge pool of tech-savvy users, and with the downturn in the economy, layoffs and budget tightening all around, what better way to give without hitting the pocket book? Kudos, Reddit.

-- 27 months

Add your qualifications to Reddit's 'Database of Awesome' and be ready to give 2 hours of your time to one of the project's partnering charities.

-- Mashable

Do you often find yourself wanting to do something for a good, geeky nonprofit organization but lack the funds to make a cash donation? Our friends at Reddit have devised a solution for techies of all walks to help out their favorite charities called FeedANeed.

-- ars technica
(disclosure: we're more like friends with benefits - ars shares parent company with reddit.com)

Chris Computing will not be accepting any more jobs this holiday season. We will be honoring scheduled checkups as well as existing service contracts, but as of today we will not be taking in any new jobs until after January 5th. The reason for this is that I will be donating my time to the FeedANeed.org program ( www.FeedANeed.org ) to help out non for profits this holiday season.

-- Chris Computing

Reddit.com has launched its first Feed a Need project in time for the holiday giving season! But they aren't asking for monetary donations - instead they are asking you to donate your skills and your time to charity.

-- Digital Philanthropy

Reddit reports that it receives something in the order of 4 million unique hits each month, with most of the bookmarking activity coming from a young and tech-savvy crowd. Your group might be lucky enough to be matched up with the kind of special-talent volunteer you've needed to move your projects to a new level -- but at the very least, it's a no-cost opportunity to bring attention to your cause.

-- Wild Apricot

Tons of people are feeling the crunch of the down turned economy, so it's understandable that you can't donate much, if any, cash to worthy charities. But if you've got a couple of hours or more time to spare, why not help out with a web project?

-- Middle Raged Punk

I've never seen an online contest where the prize for the nonprofit is volunteer time. I'll be interested to see how reddit coordinates the actual doing of the volunteer work, and what the results are. Kudos to them for finding a way to use our "cognitive surplus" when people have less of a financial surplus to share with nonprofits.

-- Have Fun • Do Good

Você tem um tempo nessas férias ? Gostaria de colaborar com uma organização de caridade, mas está duro ? Você entende de HTML, C++, SQL, PHP, PQP, FDP ? o Reddit está tentando unir gente hábil com gente necessitada através do http://feedaneed.org/

-- Crônicas agudas, redux

You may have read about my intense love of all things bacon. I talk about it some(all the)times. Imagine my great joy upon learning that Reddit is hosting a fantastic resource to connect volunteers of all stripes with organizations that need them this holiday season -- and those volunteers could win some BACON!

-- NTEN

Do you have tech skills and a social conscience? Instead of money, are you willing to donate your time and design, programming, coding, artistic, or other abilities to help NGOs and other organizations with their technical needs?

-- Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom

So if you are a programmer, designer, artist, lawyer, geology professor, bacon cooker, or anyone else with a few hours to spend for a good cause please consider participating in this year's Feed a Need charity drive. They are even giving away prizes for volunteering including Bacon...ummmm....bacon.

-- BrazenCareerist

TIG has just entered a global contest that will match tech-related charities with expert volunteers! Not only would we benefit from added expertise from volunteers, but we'd also get some neat media recognition among high tech innovators.

-- TakingITGlobal News

There are several prizes to be won which include Xbox 360, games, Intel Atom Processor powered PC's, discount coupons, T-shirts and such sponsored by the project partners.

-- InstantFundas

The upside of an economic downturn is that people (re)turn to non-monetary offerings. Reddit just launched its FeedANeed program.

-- Charity Focus

Volunteer time doing what you do best (product design and coding) for organizations that need it (through Reddit's feedaneed.org)

-- garry's posterous

Have a little downtime this winter? Donate some of your tech-mojo to a deserving nonprofit organization for a chance to win some awesome swag from the likes of XKCD, Ars Technica, the EFF, and others through feedaneed.org.

-- StudioAndrew

Volunteer opportunities come in all flavors - most recently we've added a creative flavor - and we encourage all types to help out, but what about nerds with the desire to do good?

I was searching for a service like this, one that connects geeks and nonprofits but I didn't need to look very hard before I ran across Reddit's FeedaNeed.org project.

-- Brokekid.net

Please vote for Isha Vidhya by the end of today!! Or volunteer to help the project, which will offer free technological help to the top-voted non-profits.

-- Becky Blab

I had really, REALLY hoped to kick off the New Year with all my Positive Picks in media, like Reddit's Feed a Need.org

-- Shaping Youth

Since I last wrote, there's been a ton of news that relatest to the build out of the Social Actions search engine and open API. First and foremost, we came in first place in Reddit's FeedANeed.org contest.

-- Social Actions

FeedANeed.org is social media giant Reddit's exploit matching volunteers with non-for-profit organisations in need of volunteering time. Instead of asking for monetary donations, they ask people to donate a few hours of their skills & energy. So if you are a programmer, designer, artist, lawyer, geology professor, bacon cooker, or anyone else with a few hours to spend for a good cause participate in this year's Feed a Need charity drive.

-- The Road to the Horizon

Social Actions officially wins Reddit's FeedANeed contest.

-- NetSquared

Yesterday, we learned that Social Actions is officially the top vote getter in the FeedANeed.org contest. This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community. At the rate we currently pay for programming, this prize works out to just under $15,000 of in kind services. We're incredibly happy to receive this news. With money running short, pro-bono programming hours is music to our ears. Thank you everyone who voted for Social Actions in the FeedaNeed.org contest.

-- Social Actions

Instead of asking for donations (monetary ones), the guys from Feed A Need are asking people to donate just a few hours of their abilities. Thus, if you are an engineer, teacher, programmer or anyone else and if you want to spend a few hours for a good cause feel free to participate to this project.

-- Your Electronics Open Source