ALT-1 Gifts that Give Back
Adopt a Dog or Cat (http://www.petfinder.com/) is a great resource for finding a furry companion for your family or friend while saving an animal's life. Visit your local humane society. Beautiful animals can be with your family for years to come
Give a child a laptop. Get a child a laptop .Starting November 12,http://www.laptop.org/will be offering ahttp://www.laptopgiving.org/for a short period of time. For $399, you can donate one XO laptop to a child in a developing country, and have one XO laptop sent to your child at home.
Buy Books from your local independent book store. When it comes to spending your holiday dollars, would you rather they went to Amazon and Borders, or to your local economy? Usewww.booksense.siteto find independent bookstores near you. You can also buy a BookSense gift card that can be used at hundreds of indy shops.
http://www.heifer.org/gives poor families a sustainable source of food and income by buying them livestock with your donation. For example, for $20 you can give a family a flock of chicks that will provide them with eggs to eat, share or sell. One good hen can lay up to 200 eggs in a year. You can even create ahttp://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.476835/for yourself to send to your friends and family.
The blue raindrop gemstone sterling silver necklace from Hellfire is just the type of unique look your artsy best friend will cherish. The best part is you'll help add some brightness to someone's life, since the piece was created especially to raise money for RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization.$60 athttp://www.hellfirecollection.com/cgi-bin/shop.pl?sku=NEC-155, with $20 from every necklace sale benefitinghttp://www.rainn.org/.
For $6 the foundation will plant a tree in your recipient's honor and mail you a greeting card that you can send her for the holidays. http://www.arborday.org/
A donation of $97 will fund an entire year of school for a Ugandan child in an IDP camp.Your gift of $20 will allow CHF to provide 10 families with enough seeds to begin household farming activities throughout the world.www.changingthepresent.org/
