Hello, my friends! It’s here! 🎁🎄My annual gift-giving post. 💝 I love this (it brings me such joy) and have been posting it every year since 2016.
I used to post mid to late December for last-minute ideas but have posted a bit earlier the past few years for Giving Tuesday (which takes place on November 28th this year). (If you shop on Giving Tuesday, most organizations will match, double, or even triple your gift.) Enjoy!
Quick, easy, heartfelt. 🎁🎄💝 Perfect for Giving Tuesday (and last-minute gifts):
Environment / Nature
ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
Mission: “to help others understand and use trees as a solution to many of the global issues we face today, including air quality, water quality, a changing climate, deforestation, poverty, and hunger.”
These Trees in Celebration certificates are lovely and only two dollars plants a tree. They have other fun gifts here like delicious, rich, rain forest coffee. Every sip helps the world. Because. Trees. Behold the beautiful trees! 🌲
Animals / Wildlife
ASPCA
Mission: “animals are entitled to kind and respectful treatment at the hands of humans and must be protected…”
Show your love for our four-legged friends. Give a holiday gift card in honor of a beloved furchild. I can’t stand the cuteness of that puppy. You know you want to help these little munchkins. Available in snail mail cards or ecards.
Hunger / Poverty
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL
Mission: “to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way by supporting and investing alongside local farmers and their communities.”
Choose a donation and mail, print it out, or email with a custom message to the gift recipient. Or you can give a gift card (to print out or send via email) so they can choose their own donation.
My personal favorite gift to give is honeybees. They are awesome. Here are 2 reasons why:
“Food for Life: Honey is the only food that includes all the essential elements necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals and even water. Its unique chemical makeup also allows it to be preserved indefinitely.”
“Farmers’ Helpers: In the process of searching for nectar, bees pollinate plants. The placement of a single colony can potentially double local fruit and vegetable yields.”
Isn’t that incredible? It’s the bee’s knees. 🐝
KIVA
Mission: “to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. We celebrate and support people looking to create a better future for themselves, their families and their communities.”
Print these out or email them to the gift recipient and they can start loaning right away. Change someone’s life, get paid back, help someone else… And on it goes. Making spirits bright.
Childhood Cancer/Childhood Diseases
ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
Mission: “Finding cures. Saving children. St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.”
Please do check out the site if you don’t already know about St. Jude Children’s Hospital. And, if you do, well… ‘Nuff said.
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Use the hashtags #GivingTuesday and #GivingTuesday2023 on your blogs and social media to spread the word and find tons of ways to help this holiday season!
Lemon Shark 