Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help

At every Justin Bieber concert, Justin gives a bouquet of flowers to one screaming, fainting, hyperventilating, and/or in-shock fan.  If the Justin fan in your life isn’t able to make it to one of his concerts, and/or isn’t one of the lucky ones to be chosen for flowers, never fear. You can re-create the feeling [...]

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On October 2, 2010, Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais, Joel McHale, John Oliver, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and many, many more will be appearing live at the Beacon Theater in New York City, in a show sponsored by Comedy Central called, [...]

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It’s great news that it looks like BP has finally capped the oil spill. But it’ll be years before we know the full measure of the damage that the last few months of constant gushing oil has done to the environment and the wildlife in the Gulf Coast area. And human nature being what it [...]

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While shopping for a doggie present for my sister’s dog Opie, I looked far and wide but couldn’t find anything better than the same boring and stale dog treats that have been probably sitting on the shelves of supermarkets and drug stores for months and are made with who-knows-what. Opie’s a good boy, and deserves [...]

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Zoe from Shopping.com wrote in to talk about a promotion they’re running for the month of July. Hi! I’m writing to you about a Shopping.com promotion for the month of July, in which the site will donate a dollar to cancer research for every product review people leave on the site. While Shopping.com normally pays [...]

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As part of the “Go Red for Women” campaign, Mattel released this red Barbie Go Red for Women doll which benefits the American Heart Association. It’s somewhat reminiscent of the Pink Barbie we highlighted a few years ago that benefited breast cancer causes. As much attention is breast cancer gets, most people may not realize [...]

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Kohl Cares is the philanthropic arm of Kohl’s department stores. We’ve featured them in the past–they sell very high quality merchandise at very low prices, where proceeds go to benefit a number of great charitable causes, from kids health and education to environmental causes to womens’ health. They have a new line of Winnie the Pooh [...]

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Trudie Styler’s Warrior Yoga is a DVD by Trudie Styler, also known as Mrs. Sting. Released in October 2009, it has both a 45-minute “Warrior Workout” and a 25-minute “Express Warrior Workout” with a number of positions for whole-body strengthening. The workout was developed by Ms. Styler and Fitness expert James D Silva. The DVD contains [...]

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This Blanket America Patchwork Heritage Quilt is a great quality quilt that is inspired by the flag colors of the 13 original colonies on one side, with a modern-day nod with our current President’s inaugural address on the other. Blanket America is a company that still manufactures all of its products in the USA. And [...]

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This Shuttle Imagination kit is a great idea. It’s basically a large 6 foot tall cardboard spaceship that folds out. The walls are sturdy and plain white. Your kids basically take markers, crayons, paint, and other art supplies you may have and decorate the spaceship using their imagination. They can paint flags and markings on the outside, [...]

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