As most of you who read this blog know, I live in the New York City area. I was one of the fortunate ones to whom Hurricane Sandy meant a few hours of lost power and inconvenience. But it’s heart-wrenching to hear the stories coming in. Many people in Long Island, New Jersey, and New […]
Entries Tagged as 'Causes'
Help Small Businesses Devastated by Hurricane Sandy
November 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Disaster Relief
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The best charities to donate to for Hurricane Sandy relief
November 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Disaster Relief
One of the sad realities of any disaster is that criminals and charlatans will invariably come and try to profit off of them by trying to pass themselves off as charities. If you get approached by an individual or receive something in the mail, double-check and triple-check it before providing any kind of financial information. […]
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Free Plants vs. Zombies for Halloween from PopCap Games and the American Dental Association
October 28th, 2012 · No Comments · Children's Charities
My wife got me hooked on Plants vs. Zombies on my iPad a while ago, and since then I’ve been hooked. Over 120 million people around the world play it too. It looks like a complicated game, at least compared to relatively brainless (no pun intended) games like Angry Birds and Bejeweled. But once you […]
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A useful Wedding Favor or Groomsman Gift: Dogtag bottle openers by PopTag
October 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Animal Causes
In the weeks leading up to my recent wedding, my fiancee and I were throwing out all kinds of ideas about wedding favors. We tried looking on TheKnot, but in all honesty most of the favors we saw there were kind of hackneyed. TheKnot.com tends to favor, no pun intended, vendors who pay them a […]
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Gifts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012 – Part 2
October 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Breast Cancer
Here are some more great gift and shopping ideas for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012: 6. We’ve talked about A Lot to Say before. They are an eco-conscious, toxin-free lifestyle line that also has a philanthropic partnership with Stand Up To Cancer. Amazingly, their products are manufactured completely using recycled plastic bottles. I had a chance to […]
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Gifts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012 – Part 1
October 17th, 2012 · No Comments · Breast Cancer
Since this site started, for the last few years during the month of October I’ve traditionally posted throughout October on new products and promotions that help breast cancer awareness. Breast Cancer awareness, after all, is the charity that really got charity gifting and cause-related marketing booming in the first place. This year I’ve been a […]
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Building Up From the Ashes–Literally. A Unique Art Auction Featuring Ash from the Colorado Wildfires
October 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Disaster Relief
This past summer was one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in Colorado history. It cost six lives and destroyed over 600 homes. It also took over 5,000 firefighters to contain, many of them from volunteer fire companies that were pushed to their brink. Back in August, The Art to Ashes Project was formed by […]
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Patriotic Christmas Ornaments
September 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Conservation
It’s not too early to start thinking about trimming the Christmas tree (okay, maybe it is, but I’m thinking about it anyway). This year, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is selling a unique ornament and bookmark to celebrate the Statue of Liberty. Both pieces of art are handcrafted AND made in the USA by […]
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Patchwork Road's Meaningful Marketplace – Unique Gifts That Help Charity
September 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Children's Charities, Developing Areas, Domestic Violence, Education, Poverty, Veterans and Military
Here’s a fantastic new shopping site that you should definitely check out. It’s called PatchworkRoad.Com, and it just launched yesterday. There are certainly a lot of marketplaces out there that donate a portion of proceeds to charity. But right away this one feels very different. Instead of dumping you into a huge morass of affiliate […]
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Filipino T-Shirt to Help Flooding in Manila and the Phillipines
September 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Disaster Relief
While most of us in the United States were focused on Hurricane Isaac here on the Western Hemisphere, there was a deadly typhoon, Typhoon Haikui, that was pummeling Asia. While Isaac didn’t come close to the devastation many predicted, the opposite is true of what Haikui did to the Philippines. Over 90% of Manila was […]
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