Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help

Until Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 11, I’ll be focusing on great gifts for Mom. Check back every two days for another fantastic gift.
Of  course, NOVICA supports human artists as well. Here’s a beautiful piece of artisinal jewelry created by an artist named “Caine” who lives in Bali, Indonesia.
 
Pearl and opal earrings, ‘Harmony’

Using precious and semi-precious […]

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Until Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 11, I’ll be focusing on great gifts for Mom. Check back every two days for another fantastic gift.
NOVICA is a great company that is affiliated with National Geographic Society. They identify artists all over the world, many in impoverished and developing countries, and give them a marketplace for […]

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If you’ve never been to the beautiful area of Dutchess County, New York, you’re missing out. While everyone thinks of New York as skyscrapers and business, this area is a quiet, beautiful, bucolic place. You see beautiful fields, quietude, and yes, happy cows.
It’s these happy cows that produce this igourmet 8-oz. Barat cheese. Barat cheese is […]

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California Wild is an amazing book filled with some of the most beautiful nature photography of California you’ll ever see. It makes a great gift for anyone in your life who appreciates stunning nature photography or the beauty of California.
The book is a large, 11 x 10 x 1 inch book, but as Signals said, […]

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The Last Place on Earth Two-Volume Box Set is a remarkable gift set from National Geographic that documents one of the last pristine and undeveloped areas in central Africa: the 2000 mile stretch from Congo’s deep forests to Gabon’s pristine sea shore.
National Geographic photographer Michael ”Nick” Nichols and ecologist Mike Fay took a grueling 456-day voyage and […]

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Looking for how to stop junk mail coming to your mailbox? Here’s a very cool new idea from a new organization called Greendimes.
I’m sure it’s happened to you. You order from one mail order or Internet company. Then, suddenly you get another catalog in the mail. Pretty soon your mail is filled with all kinds […]

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Back by popular demand, here’s the LUSH Charity Pot. This is LUSH Cosmetics‘ hand and body lotion where a FULL 100% of proceeds goes to help a number of great organizations, including:

Clean Ocean Action
Amazon Conservation Team
TreePeople
UNICEF
International Fund for Animal Welfare
WaterCan

This luxurious hand and body lotion is made with cocoa butter from projects in the […]

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Ladies (and guys with “man-bags”), here’s one of those great ideas that you wonder what you ever did without.
It’s an age-old question: what do you do with your purse when you go to a restaurant? Keep it in your lap all evening? Put it on the floor and risk getting it dirty or worse, stolen?
The […]

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The National Wildlife Federation, based in Washington, DC, is one of the leading conservation organizations. You may recall its annual holiday wildlife stamps or its popular Ranger Rick magazine for children.
One very meaningful gift is giving the gift of “adopting” an endangered animal. You don’t adopt an actual animal, of course, but it’s a great […]

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LUSH Cosmetics is a company that really takes “socially responsible” selling to the next level. If you haven’t heard of them, you will soon. Their products are among the nicest smelling, feeling, looking cosmetics in the world, and have a growing following. And unlike many of the big cosmetics companies, they are extremely rigrous about […]

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