There are those who are blogging for a cause or who are encouraging visitors to support ads such as AdSense ads through clicking because they're announcing that all the earnings of that site will go to a certain charity.
The Google AdSense team clarified their take on this.
While we do appreciate your charitable efforts, this practice is not permitted by our program policies. We want users to click on ads because they are interested in the products or services offered by the advertiser, not because they are interested in supporting a site or a charity. Using this type of language can draw undue attention to the ads, and we aren't able to verify whether earnings are actually donated to the third-party mentioned on each site. As a result, we don't allow publishers to offer these types of incentives.
However, please know that once you've received your payments, you're still welcome to use them however you wish - whether it's donating them to a charity, paying your hosting bills, or treating yourself to a night out on the town. We just ask that you avoid using any language on your site that would directly or indirectly encourage users to click on your ads.
I recommend using other ways such as PayPal donation buttons or this neat Buy Me a Beer Wordpress plugin if you want more legal ways of asking your visitors to support you.
Are you using other methods? Care to share how you do it?
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