Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help

The folks at Red Envelope are selling this very comfy looking pair of pink flip flops, where 10% of the proceeds to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Foundation. The slippers are amazingly plush and made of super-soft absorbent pink terry. The bottoms are made of foam which conforms to your foot, and rubber [...]

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I had the pleasure last week of learning about the organization Echoing Green. They’re a non-profit group that supports the concept of social entrepreneurship. If you don’t know what social entrepreneurship is, just think in the business world about what venture capitalists do. VCs try to find entrepreneurs with great business ideas. They’ll provide seed [...]

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Today, Saturday, April 25, is a great day to shop at Macys. On today only, purchase a “One Good Turn Ticket” which supports America’s National Parks, and you’ll receive 20% or 10% off at macys.com! Here’s how it works. On April 25, add a One Good Turn ticket to your shopping cart for $5. 100% [...]

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The Jones New York “In the Classroom” Tee is a cotton crewneck T-Shirt illustrated by artist Sujean Rim. The illustration is a stylish and colorful screen print design of a teacher holding apple shopping bags. 100% of the profits are donated to Jones New York In The Classroom, a non-profit organization supporting teachers and education.

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We highlight a lot of worthy causes on this blog, but here’s one that you’ll definitely be able to get behind if you have a family, because the beneficiary is–you! If you haven’t heard of it. Upromise is a completely FREE program where through every day spending, both online purchases and offline purchases such as [...]

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Back in the 1991, a group of musical luminaries assembled to create a series of CDs called “For Our Children”. Some of the performances have become legendary, from Bette Midler’s “Blueberry Pie” to Bruce Springsteen’s “Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips to Luther Vandross singing “Puff the Magic Dragon” to Little Richard singing “Itsy Bitsy Spider”, [...]

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If you have a Blu-ray player and a large LCD or plasma TV, you are probably aware of Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series. It is a jaw-droppingly phenomenal piece of filmmaking that not only lets you experience parts of the planet that you will never, ever get to see in person; it also [...]

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If you need to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, you can purchase this copy of Windows Vista that also helps a great cause. Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED Upgrade with SP1 is Microsoft’s participation in the PRODUCT (RED) program, the initiative started by U2′s Bono and Bobby Shriver of DATA, who continue to [...]

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This cute fellow is the Marriott Bear. For every one of these that is purchased, Marriott donates a portion of proceeds to Feeding America (formerly named America’s Second Harvest). The goal of Feeding America is to create an America free from hunger.Feeding America is the largest domestic hunger-relief charity in the nation, with more than 200 [...]

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Frais is a company based in Australia which produces a luxury brand of Hand Sanitizer. During the cold and flu season, every doorknob, every tabletop, every handshake, and every pen and pencil can be a breeding ground for germs that cause the flu, the common cold, staph infections, and worse.We can’t wash our hands every [...]

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