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Vases to Help Haiti

January 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas, Macys

Macy’s Heart of Haiti Collection has a unique set of handcrafted vases from Haiti, including the Heart of Haiti Charlotte 1 Vase pictured here. If you bought your Bieber fever flowers (and if you didn’t, what are you waiting for?? ;)), this vase makes a great alternative to the glass vase that 1-800-Flowers gives you, […]

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Music to Help Haiti

January 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Amazon, Developing Areas

Since the first music CD to help Haiti was released a few weeks after the earthquake, a whole bunch of other artists have come together to produce their own albums to help Haiti. There’s one to suit just about every musical taste, and the proceeds are still going to help. Here are some of the […]

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Jewelry Hanger from Haiti – Birds in a Breadfruit Tree

January 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas, Macys

This Birds in a Breadfruit Tree Jewelry Hanger from the Macy’s Heart of Haiti collection is a great way to support artisans of Haiti while displaying all your hanging jewelry in a beautiful and practical way. Made from recycled steel, this piece has a beautiful design of graceful birds in a breadfruit tree, a tree […]

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Bieber Flowers for Valentine's Day 2012

January 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment · 1-800-Flowers.com, Developing Areas

Okay, who doesn’t have Bieber Fever these days? Wish the Justin Bieber fan in your life a Happy Valentine’s Day with this Bieber Fever Bouquet. It’s a bouquet of one dozen multicolored roses in a glass vase, along with a teddy bear wearing a Justin Bieber T-Shirt and a free 4-month membership to Justin’s Fan […]

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Pot Holder and Over Mitts to Help Haiti

January 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas

This Heart of Haiti Pot Holder and Oven Mitt in Blue is one of several we’ll be featuring this month from Macy’s Heart of Haiti Collection. This successful program was among the first to provide sustainable work for citizens of Haiti after the earthquake that wiped out huge amounts of raw materials and left their already-poor […]

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Haiti Heart

January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Developing Areas

Today marks the two year anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake. Haiti is still a nation in need of a lot of help. For the rest of the month we’ll be highlighting gifts that will help. The Haiti Heart at UncommonGoods is a beautiful piece that was created by Haitian craftsmen through the organization Aid to […]

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Charity Mints and Gum that Taste Great and Do Good

January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Conservation, World Hunger

A while back, the folks at Project7 reached out to me to talk about their great charity.  “Project 7” produces “products for good” are directs them to one of seven charitable missions, including: Heal the Sick Save the Earth House the Homeless Feed the Hungry Quench the Thirsty Teach them Well Hope for Peace Why […]

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Library Books on Your Kindle

January 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Literacy

I’ve been an owner of the Kindle Keyboard 3G for years now. There are so many things I love about the Kindle. Perhaps most of all, I love the e-ink technology and how it reads like smooth type on real paper (and how you can read it under direct sunlight). Even though I have an […]

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Shop to Help Operation Smile

January 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Children's Charities

One out of every 500-700 babies (about one every three minutes) are born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, an opening in the lip, the roof of the mouth or the soft tissue in the back of the mouth. In a society that stresses physical attractiveness as much as our does, it admittedly takes a […]

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Did you forget to get the dog a Christmas present? Run to Kohl's!

December 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Amazon, Animal Causes

So, everyone in the family got a great Christmas present, right? Wait! What about the little guy with the wagging tail who make life so bright for all of you? Happily, Kohl’s is having a HUGE sale on Animal Planet pet items right now. These are all high quality pet items, where some of the proceeds […]

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