What did one berry say to the other? If you hadn’t been so fresh last night, we wouldn’t be in this jam!! Okay, I dusted off that old groaner of a joke to call attention to a wonderful, wonderful new site called Hope, Health, Joy with an incredible story. For years, Julia Butera enjoyed an [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Causes'
Delicious Charity Jams, Jelly and Preserves
February 5th, 2012 · No Comments · Cancer, Uncategorized
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Alexandra Taylor Scarves and Ties for Charity
February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas
High-end fashion designer Alexandra Taylor has released an impressive collection of scarves and ties that help bring awareness and much-needed funding to an important cause: ending the scourge of malaria in Africa. Here in the United States, we often forgot how blessed we are. We have scientists working on mosquito eradication programs in our cities. [...]
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Vases to Help Haiti
January 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas, Macys
Macy’s Heart of Haiti Collection has a unique set of handcrafted vases from Haiti, including the Heart of Haiti Charlotte 1 Vase pictured here. If you bought your Bieber fever flowers (and if you didn’t, what are you waiting for?? ), this vase makes a great alternative to the glass vase that 1-800-Flowers gives you, [...]
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Music to Help Haiti
January 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Amazon, Developing Areas
Since the first music CD to help Haiti was released a few weeks after the earthquake, a whole bunch of other artists have come together to produce their own albums to help Haiti. There’s one to suit just about every musical taste, and the proceeds are still going to help. Here are some of the [...]
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Jewelry Hanger from Haiti – Birds in a Breadfruit Tree
January 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas, Macys
This Birds in a Breadfruit Tree Jewelry Hanger from the Macy’s Heart of Haiti collection is a great way to support artisans of Haiti while displaying all your hanging jewelry in a beautiful and practical way. Made from recycled steel, this piece has a beautiful design of graceful birds in a breadfruit tree, a tree [...]
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Bieber Flowers for Valentine’s Day 2012
January 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment · 1-800-Flowers.com, Developing Areas
Okay, who doesn’t have Bieber Fever these days? Wish the Justin Bieber fan in your life a Happy Valentine’s Day with this Bieber Fever Bouquet. It’s a bouquet of one dozen multicolored roses in a glass vase, along with a teddy bear wearing a Justin Bieber T-Shirt and a free 4-month membership to Justin’s Fan [...]
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Pot Holder and Over Mitts to Help Haiti
January 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas
This Heart of Haiti Pot Holder and Oven Mitt in Blue is one of several we’ll be featuring this month from Macy’s Heart of Haiti Collection. This successful program was among the first to provide sustainable work for citizens of Haiti after the earthquake that wiped out huge amounts of raw materials and left their already-poor [...]
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Haiti Heart
January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas
Today marks the two year anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake. Haiti is still a nation in need of a lot of help. For the rest of the month we’ll be highlighting gifts that will help. The Haiti Heart at UncommonGoods is a beautiful piece that was created by Haitian craftsmen through the organization Aid to [...]
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Charity Mints and Gum that Taste Great and Do Good
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Conservation, World Hunger
A while back, the folks at Project7 reached out to me to talk about their great charity. ”Project 7″ produces “products for good” are directs them to one of seven charitable missions, including: Heal the Sick Save the Earth House the Homeless Feed the Hungry Quench the Thirsty Teach them Well Hope for Peace Why [...]
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Library Books on Your Kindle
January 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Literacy
I’ve been an owner of the Kindle Keyboard 3G for years now. There are so many things I love about the Kindle. Perhaps most of all, I love the e-ink technology and how it reads like smooth type on real paper (and how you can read it under direct sunlight). Even though I have an [...]
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