Holiday Gifts for Good
A guide to positive impact through gifting
Give the gift of positive impact this holiday season by supporting a local entrepreneur, global farmer or a poverty ridden family with these five unique gifting options to help you get started:
1. Send a CARE package
Create your own care package through care.org. Shop their selection of live animals, farming supplies, basic needs, urgent needs, education assistance and scholarships, or tools for empowering women across 87 poverty ridden countries. Flexible pricing allows you to pay in portions or in full on all gift options. Honor a loved one by gifting in their name and they will receive a personalized card.
2. Provide a micro loan
For the gift that keeps on giving (literally). Send a loved one a Kiva Card this holiday season and help an artisan buy supplies, a farmer purchase equipment, a student continue education, or more. Choose who to support, once their loan is repaid, they can use the funds again and again to further their impact.
3. Create a Fundraiser
The Salvation Army #RedKettleReason campaign allows you to create your own fundraiser. Choose a community, choose a cause, and invite your friends to help raise funds in support!
4. Plant a tree (from home)
Give the gift of trees! Treedom.net allows you to select from a variety of trees to be planted across many countries. Let them do the planting, and you can track your tree’s progress online. Trees can also be gifted in honor of a loved one.
5. Adopt an endangered species
Give a gift that will help protect the future of nature. Your symbolic adoption supports World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) global efforts to protect wild animals and their habitats. And you have the option to receive a cute plush toy with your donation.
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If you do plan to do a portion of holiday shopping online through Amazon, don’t forget about Amazon Smile! Support a nonprofit while you shop and Amazon will donate 5% of the proceeds.
What are your gifting plans this year? Let us know in the comments.
Fulcrum Creatives is a certified B Corp brand and web studio in Columbus, Ohio focused on creating, elevating and sustaining brands that care.
