Regardless of whether you love the Yankees or hate them (and chances are you fall under one of those two categories), one thing that everyone can agree on is that catcher Jorge Posada is just a decent fellow.This children’s book, written by Jorge himself
Children's book about baseball from Jorge Posada
September 26th, 2008 · Amazon, Children's Charities
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Free Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream on 9/25/08
September 24th, 2008 · Make-A-Wish Foundation
Take someone you care about out for ice cream on 9/25/08 from 5 PM to 8 PM. That’s when Cold Stone Creamery will be holding the 7th Annual “World’s Largest Ice Cream Social” at participating Cold Stone Creamery locations nationwide.
Guests will be treated to a 3 oz. serving of Jack or Emily’s Creation. They’ll be collecting donations,which will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Congratulations Gift Basket that helps support relief efforts in Kenya
September 22nd, 2008 · Amazon
Kenya is a country suffering from the scourge of AIDS. Sadly, the ones who suffer the most are children who are orphaned.
This Congratulations Gift Basket
First, a full 50% of your purchase price goes to support the Kenya AIDS Intervention/Prevention Project Group (www.kaippg.org).
Second, the gift baskets are assembled with true “fair trade” principles, which support local artisans in the Kamba and Turkana tribes in Africa who create the artwork, and the growers who use sustainable farming practices.
The congratulations gift basket comes with a fantastic amount of things:
- Three flavors of Zawadi African Tea (Jambo! Pure Black, Safari Spiced Chai, and Karibu Spiced Chai). Zawadi African Tea from Kenya is new to America and harvested from the bud of the tea plant creating a rich top-grade tea full of antioxidants with half the caffeine of coffee.
- a Tea Strainer
- Wooden Book Ends
- Letter Opener
- Giraffe Box carved by the Kamba Tribe
It’s a great way to say “congratulations” to anyone in your life with a truly special and meaningful gift.
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Shop for a Cause at Macy's
September 20th, 2008 · Macys
If you’re reading this on Saturday, September 20, 2008 you’re in luck! For today and today only, Macy’s is holding their Shop for a Cause promotion.
Save 20% when you add a $5 Shop For A Cause online ticket to your shopping bag at Macys.com. If you’ve been in the market for a big ticket item, today’s your chance to save big and help a great cause too.
Just click through the links above for more details.
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Amazing Collection of Classic Soul Music on CD
September 18th, 2008 · Uncategorized
The Immortal Soul – Essential Recordings’ Compilation Music CD is an amazing collection for anyone who loves soul music, or R&B.
It’s a handpicked collection of the golden age of R&B and soul which musically traces the history of R&B and soul music from its gospel roots. It’s an amazingly comprehensive collection with artists ranging from Ray Charles to the Isley Brothers to James Brown to the Staple Singers to Gladys Knight to Bill Withers. This is probably one of the most authoritative collections of the old greats I’ve ever seen.
And through 12/31/2008, not a portion, but 100% of album proceeds helps youth music education programs in under-served communities: Scholarship Audition Performance Preparatory Academy (LA); Merit School of Music (Chicago); and Opus 118 Harlem School of Music (NY).
Get a great compilation and inspire the next generation of great artists at the same time.
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Cute Children's Book: Ladybug Baby Bug
September 16th, 2008 · Amazon, America's Second Harvest
Janice and Mark Perkins are retired grandparents who had a lifelong dream of writing, illustrating and publishing a children’s book. This is their first effort, Ladybug Baby Bug
Janice and Mark Perkins are donating a very large portion of their proceeds to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, a member of America’s Second Harvest, in thanks for the many blessings they have received over their lives.
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Lip Butter that helps charity
September 14th, 2008 · The Body Shop
Is there a woman in your life or are you one that would love to have soft and luxuriously smooth lips? This Guarana Berry MTV Lip Butter from The Body Shop
is an all-natural product that includes paulinia cupana seed extract which improves the skin, shea butter for softening effect, and organic beeswax to seal in moisture (and furthermore is a fair use product that helps workers in developing countries).
Proceeds from the sale will be donated to the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, which helps young people become involved in bringing awareness to HIV and AIDS prevention and education.
Buy it along with other great charitable gifts from the Body Shop, and put it all together in a lovely gift bag from The Body Shop, which ALSO goes to support a great cause, Stop Violence in the Home Foundation.
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I Am Powerful T-Shirt from CARE
September 12th, 2008 · CARE International
CARE is a charity that fights poverty around the world, with a special focus on empowering women, often in the most oppressive areas, with the resources and the confidence to help their families and their communities break out of the poorest conditions in the world. In recent months, CARE has been in the war-ravaged areas of Georgia, in the aftermath of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar, and hunger in areas from Haiti to Malawi.
CARE has gone to the most desperate places in the world to help provide fundamental education, protect natural resources, prevent the spread of AIDS, provide access to clean water and clean sanitation, and improve economic opportunities. They also provide aid to areas devastated by natural disasters and war so that people can rebuild their lives.
CARE launched a public awareness campaign called “I Am Powerful”. Give a woman in your life a beautiful gift by making a donation in her name and giving her this I Am Powerful Women’s T-Shirt that describes the mission of CARE in this powerful phrase.
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National Geographic's Inside 9/11 DVD Set
September 10th, 2008 · National Geographic
National Geographic has produced this Commemorative Edition of the Inside 9/11 DVD Set. Produced in 2006, it looks back at what led up to September 11, from the terrorists’ beginnings, to the immediate aftermath of September 11. The documentary has been lauded by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times as a powerful and visually stunning recounting of the awful events.
In this special “commemorative edition” are also two additional full-length programs. One, called “Through These Eyes” is a recounting of how National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry documented the aftermath of September 11 in the streets of New York. “Witness 9/11” is also a documentary collaboration between six filmmakers taking extraordinary footage of the events.
As horrible as that day’s events were, we owe it to the victims, to our country, and to ourselves never to forget. Never forget how angry you were at the sheer evil and despicable inhumanity of those evildoers who planned and carried out this mass murder. Never forget how unified we were as a country in the days afterwards as we healed as one. Never forget the heroism of our brave men and women in uniform. Never forget the promise you made to yourself in the days following 9/11 to volunteer, to help others, to give blood, and to fight back evil with good.
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Remembering the World Trade Center
September 8th, 2008 · Amazon
It’s hard to believe that seven years have passed since that horrible day that changed everything.
From 1999 to 2001, I worked at 222 Broadway, one block away. For a few years after the towers fell, I refused to visit Ground Zero. I just wanted to remember the World Trade Center as it was. I wanted to remember sitting in the large open space on summer evenings listening to free concerts under the big globe fountain. I wanted to remember my favorite hot dog stand, who kept his stand right at the corner and served the best hot dogs I had anywhere. I wanted to remember my daily routine of going up the escalators on the right hand side of the North tower, walking through the pathway into the South Tower, and walking through the walkway to the World Financial Center, where I’d go to the gym every night. I wanted to remember taking the long escalators down to the downstairs mall area, with the Godiva (where I’d treat myself to a chocolate-covered strawberry every now and then), the Warner Brothers Store, the Borders bookstore…
I’ve finally visited Ground Zero about two years ago. I deliberately kept my eyes closed and could picture everything where it was for one last time, and then once I opened my eyes, the memories started to fade. I remember weeks, even months, after the towers fell, feeling that there was just a big “hole in the sky” whenever I drove the approach to Manhattan from New Jersey. Today, it all looks normal again to me.
This is a book which was published in November 2001
A portion of proceeds is still being donated to the Twin Towers Fund to assist the needy families of the City’s police officers, firefighters, and other uniformed services.
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