www.uso.org - Bedtime Stories

How can you not love this way to give back to our troops this holiday season.

You select from the troop wish book.  Purchase the items ranging form $15 - $100's and then dedicate that gift to a family or friend.


https://usowishbook.uso.org/templates/product.aspx?id=44&rid=34

I'll dedicate three of these this holiday season to my niece and nephews.  Knowing that in their honor 3 other kids will get a bedtime story and audio from their mother or father serving overseas.

www.causes.com

We all love to complain about recieving those impersonal gift cards at the holidays.  We love them, cause well we can do what we want with them and the gift giver doesn't even have to know.  Yet, we hate them because we feel they are so impersonal.  How's this for a new spin on gift cards.

http://www.causes.com/gift_cards

You buy the card and the recipient gets to choose what chairty gets the money.  Now this is an idea that keeps on giving.

www.worldofgood.ebay.com

This page is full of so many gifts that do good in the world.  I'm so excited it's hard to choose.

Oh boy, what a dilema if my friends see this one.  Cause this may be what they get this year.

http://worldofgood.ebay.com/Global-Girlfriend-Recycled-Plastic-Market-striped-Tote/360344325043/item

Not into this tote, I still recommend this web page for gifts that give back!

Altruette.com

Idea #1 - for the man who has no clue what to buy any woman in his life.  A charm bracelet but not just any charm bracelet.  Check out this page.  Each charm you buy corresponds to a charity that gives a percentage of the proceeds back to charity.

Now that's a gift that that keeps on giving.

12 Days of Charitable Giving - Why

Anyone who knows me knows I do NOT need another thing to do at the holidays.  This idea is too good I can't pass it up.  So here's a blog with my 12 top charity gift ideas for 2011.  Ways to give a gift that brightens the day of the person who recieves it and does good in the world.