Present Time
You want to give a present but you also want to help out a charity here are some cool charitable gifts to give:
Red Cross Store has vintage t-shirts that are very current. It doesn’t look like you are schlocking a cause. They also have some stylish first aid and emergency kits. https://www.redcrossstore.org/shopper/ProdList.aspx?LocationId=5
RAINN always has nice stuff in their online store. Especially if you are a fan or know a fan of Tori Amos they have a calendar with some beautiful painted images of Tori. They also have tees, jewelry and music.
http://store.rainn.org/
Dog Lovers wine club is a wine of the month club (which can also be done bi-monthly or quarterly) that not only sends you wine with customized dog labels they also help rescue and animal shelters across the country.
http://www.dogloverswineclub.com/?affiliatecode=HSUS
There are probably loads more out there. It may be a little work (and I know we are all lazy) but take a little time to look for awesome gifts that give back. You can give a present to someone and give to charity at the same time.
You know you are smart
and you want to prove it
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
A site that for every word you correctly define you give rice to people who need it. Seriously you thought all of those stupid words you learned for the SATs were going to just rot your brain out. Now you can give those words back to those who really need it.
Giving Flowers?
If you order Flowers through FTD 15% of your purchase will go to the Children’s Miracle Network. You need to choose a hospital from this page (http://www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org/ftd.php) to give the monies to the kids.
Test your Kiddie lit knowledge
and you will give books for kids to read. You can answer trivia questions at http://www2.firstbook.org/ericcarle . For every question you answer correctly, you get to choose a state. The 5 states with the most votes will each get 20,000 copies of the Eric Carle book The Tiny Seed. The books will be distributed through First Book. First book is a nonprofit organization that gives new books to low-income families.
Answer quickly, you have until June 16, 2007.
Eat Potato Chips?
If you go to http://www.lays.com/#Home and redeem the bag of lays chips you just ate, 25cents will be donated to the Make-A-Wish foundation. They have to be a “specialty marked” bag of lays and you have until 9/1/07.
“I’m Making a Difference”
Is Microsoft’s new campaign to get you to use their IM service. You download Windows Live Messenger, you choose a charity listed, and they will donate unspecified amount of money to that charity. The will not put a cap on the funds raised and each charity’s Microsoft Messenger page has a theme pack you can additionally download. The organizations Microsoft is helping are: American Red Cross, Boys and Girls Club, Humane Society, National Aids Fund, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NineMillon.org, Sierra Club, Stop Global Warming.org, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Unicef.
For more information- http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=IMDB_SponsoredPage
Donate your Airline Miles
You can donate your airline miles to the Fisher House. They help military service people and their families. If you donate during the Memorial Weekend, CNN will match the airline miles. For more information go here,
http://www.fisherhouse.org/programs/heroMilesDonate.shtml
If you aren’t gonna use them, why not donate them?
An Inconvenient Truth
From the Al Gore documentary: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/
A list of small things you can do to reduce the effects of “climate change”. Whether you believe in this stuff or not, most will probably reduce your electric bill. So help the world and yourself too!
Download Songs and Help People in Darfur
By downloading Working Class Hero by Green Day through iTunes, you will help people in Darfur Sudan.
Amnesty International is releasing an album of John Lennon covers to raise money for the Sudanese. More Information can be found at http://www.instantkarma.org/index.html
The Green Day song has been released early and is now available through iTunes. If you don’t have iTunes, the full album ( titled Instant Karma) will be released on June 12.
Save the Planet
EcologyFund.com has many different buttons to click to save land, air. If you register even more stuff is saved.
