Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help

Hank Greenwald is one of the most respected baseball broadcasters in history, having broadcast play-by-play for the San Francisco Giants, the New York Yankees, the Oakland A’s, and the Golden State Warriors until his retirement in 1999. Hank’s daughter Kellie was born with Down’s Syndrome. But when her father wrote his autobiography in 1999, Kellie [...]

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I had the pleasure of hearing the music group 4TROOPS at Yankee Stadium on Memorial Day, where they sang the National Anthem and “God Bless America”. I was blown away. The four voices were so powerful, and yet blended together with incredible harmony. They’re beginning to become very well known. They have a PBS special [...]

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For today only, the site Midnightbox.com is selling a box of used golf balls. The cost is $24.95 for a box of golf balls, all assorted well-known brand names. And as with all used golf balls, because they’re usually lost by bad golfers like me, chances are they’ve only been hit once or twice before [...]

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Hurry and grab this one while it lasts! Kohl’s is having a clearance on Dr. Seuss books, including The Foot Book, Oh the Things You Can Think, If I Ran the Circus, and the book that caused a lot of us to “go green” before going green became a political thing: The Lorax. Note that [...]

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Mama, Won’t You Play With Me? is a children’s book by Meg Walsh about a baby duckling whose mother can’t play with him because she has a broken wing. The duckling visits other animal mothers to play with, but at the end of the day is still sad. Coming home, he is happy when his [...]

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To celebrate Earth Day 2010, Novica is having a sale letting you take 10% off all eco-friendly gifts!. If you don’t know what Novica is, it’s an organization that, in association with National Geographic, sells hand-crafted gifts created from developing areas all over the world. In a world where more and more things are produced [...]

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On yesterday’s Celebrity Apprentice, the task for the celebrities was to makeover budding country artists Luke Bryan and Emily West. Corporate sponsors with new products to hock usually sign up to have their products improved, but of course in reality, the exposure their brand gets by being on national television usually far surpasses the benefits [...]

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Great Lodges of the National Parks is the companion book to the PBS Television Series of the same name (which aired in 2002). Filled with the same great photography of the TV series, it provides an in-depth look at some of the nicest lodges in our National Parks, from Old Faithful Inn to Crater Lake Lodge. [...]

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It’s sad to hear all the stories of political corruption these days. But in Baltimore, the Maryland State Prosecutor’s office has done something very clever as far as turning something negative into something very positive. For those of you who may not have been following local Baltimore politics, Mayor Sheila Dixon has been in a [...]

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In 2009, Disney was giving away a free day at Disney Parks to people on their birthday. If you think about it, it was a clever marketing gimmick on Disney’s part. If one family member has a birthday, everyone else in the family would tag along and of course pay for their admission. In 2010, [...]

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