Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help

As you’re planning your 2013 Super Bowl snacking this year, I’d like to suggest a company that did some really extraordinary things in 2012. Last year, Fischer & Wieser Specialty Foods, based in Fredericksburg, Texas, partnered with LIFE Community Classroom, a privately funded non-profit organization that serves students with intellectual disabilities and/or special needs. Cooking [...]

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Here’s another fantastic product by Levenger. If the Thai Pad was a sofa for your iPad, you could consider this a sleeping bag for it. This product is called a “Haiti PeaceQuilt”. It comes in red or green. Again, I love how this concept  take a centuries-old art and adapts it for the 21st century. [...]

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I recently got an email from the folks at a company called OriginalBos (http://www.OriginalBos.com) announcing their new product called “Balls of Steel”. I couldn’t stop chuckling after seeing all the double-entendre in the email and on their Web site. To announce their product, their email and Web site used the phrase “the balls have dropped”. The [...]

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Okay, I know what you’re thinking after reading the title. What self-respecting person would give someone pens, pencils, and staplers to their loved ones for Christmas? After suffering through boxes of cheap ballpoint pens from the likes of OfficeMax and Staples over the years, that’d be worse than putting a bag of coal in someone’s [...]

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Well, each year I like to highlight Christmas Cards you can buy where a portion goes to charity. Here are the top ones I found for 2012: The National Wildlife Service is always one of the more popular charities I highlight here, as you can support Wildlife & Nature Through Your Christmas Card Purchase. This [...]

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I had the pleasure to tying the knot last week, on October 7. I’m a lifelong resident of the New York area, and my fiance’s been here since her childhood, so we definitely wanted a wedding in New York. I came up with typical ideas that a clueless groom-to-be might come up with. I first [...]

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I’m one of those strange people who’s a fan of both Bill O’Reilly and John Stewart. Liberals tend to brand Bill O’Reilly as a demagogue. Conservatives tend to brand Stewart as a socialist. The irony is, 99% of the people who attack either man are people who’ve never seen more than five minutes of who [...]

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Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and Conor Dwyer thrilled us with their amazing performances at the 2012 London Olympics. They’ve lent their time and fame to support a wonderful charity called Water for People. Here’s a PSA they just released. Okay, their performance reading cue cards is not as strong (sorry guys ), but their cause [...]

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There, I said it. That’s the one thing that’s not being said among this whole mess that’s going on with Lance Armstrong. I’ve read the proclamations by the US Anti-Doping Agency of how Lance Armstrong is an unrepentant cheater. I’ve read the message from Lance Armstrong of how he was the most tested athlete in [...]

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