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 Gift Products
Purchase fair trade crafts, music, clothing, note cards and other gifts for your family and friends this holiday season!
o Africa Action
Africa Action is a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa. They offer t-shirts, buttons, bags, stickers, and pens.
o American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. They offer peace & justice books, children's books, clothing, cards & posters, audio & video, fair trade items and more. AFSC also offers alternative gifts.
o Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com offers the latest antiwar news, viewpoint and activities. They offer buttons, clothing, bags, hats and more.
o Arts Engine Inc.
Arts Engine connects much needed resources to a diverse group of educators, filmmakers and advocates looking to impact social change. They offer DVDs from Big Mouth Films featuring socially conscious documentaries and Media That Matters Film Festival DVDs--a selection of the years most compelling short films covering a wide range of pressing social matters and ideas on how to take action!
o Bay Area International Development Organizations
BAIDO is a network of San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits doing international development work. They offer T-shirts, videos and Uncommon Ground coffee.
o Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development aims to reduce global poverty and inequality through research & engagement with the policy community & the public. CGD offers a variety of publications for purchase online.
o Centre for Development and Population Activities
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is an international nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of women and girls worldwide. Shop online through iGive.com or Greatergood.com, and CEDPA will receive up to 27% of your purchase as a donation! Igive and Greatergood work with brand name retailers and/or craftspeople in the developing world to provide a percentage of every sale to CEDPA and other organizations. CEDPA also offers alternative gifts.
o CODEPINK
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. They offer t-shirts, buttons, bumper-stickers, umbrellas and more.
o Coptic Orphans
Coptic Orphans is an international organization that gives orphaned and other vulnerable children in Egypt the tools they need to break the cycle of poverty and injustice. They offer hand-made items crafted by children in Egypt, hand-recycled and hand-made greeting cards produced by residents of Cairo's garbage district in partnership with the Association for the Protection of the Environment. Coptic Orphans also offers alternative gifts.
o Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival fights to protect indigenous lands, languages, and
cultures around the world . In partnership with indigenous peoples, they
advocate for native communities whose rights, cultures, and dignity are
under threat. They offer subscriptions to Cultural Survival Quarterly which provides an inside look at indigenous cultures worldwide - sharing their way of life, their spirituality, their
celebrations, and their challenges, all with stunning photography and
intimate insights from native writers and experts.
o Earth Policy Institute
Earth Policy Institute is an independent environmental research organization dedicated to building an environmentally sustainable economy. They offer books with a plan for a positive future, including the recent release, PLAN B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, along with other publications.
o ENGAGE
ENGAGE builds the next generation of engaged global citizens through an innovative educational model that translates the experience of Americans studying abroad into lifelong connections and cooperative action between peoples, cultures, and social movements around the world. Put your online purchasing dollars to work for ENGAGE though purchases like books for school, travel expenses, music downloads and more. When you purchase books for school, travel expenses, music downloads and more through iGive.com, stores donate a percentage of your purchase to ENGAGE.
o Feminist Majority Foundation
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) is dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. They offer Feminist t-shirts, music, calendars, and crafts, as well as Ms. Magazine memberships.
o Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch is a consumer advocacy organization, challenging the corporate control and abuse of food and water resources. They offer Take Back the Tap reusable stainless steel water bottles.
o Global Exchange
Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice. Global Exchange's Fair Trade store offers gift baskets, clothing, toys, jewelry, books & videos, housewares, and more.
o Global Fund for Children
The Global Fund for Children works to advance the dignity of vulnerable children and youth worldwide by supporting grassroots organizations through grants and by harnessing the power of books, films, and photography. They offer an innovative collection of children’s books and clothing that encourage children to respect the environment, different cultures, and their peers around the world.
o Global Goods Partners
Global Goods Partners is dedicated to alleviating poverty and promoting social justice by creating access to the global market for
community-based organizations (CBOs) in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Their handcrafted accessories, housewears, toys, and gifts are made from sustainable resources, produced according to fair-trade principles, and generate revenue for human rights efforts in the global south. Shop online or register your school or non-profit to use GGP for innovative and educational fundraisers.
o Global Health Council
The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Send holiday greetings and benefit the Global Health Council at the same time. the Council will receive 10% of each purchase of holiday cards. The Council also offers alternative gifts.
o Hesperian
Hesperian produces books and other educational resources for community-based health care. Hesperian books are simply written and heavily-illustrated and contain a wealth of life-saving information on diagnosing and treating a broad range of health problems. Hesperian also offers alternative gifts.
o Institute for Policy Studies
IPS is a progressive, multi-issue think tank linking research to activism. They offer books about economic globalization, U.S. foreign policy, eco-tourism and more.
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InterAction
InterAction
is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international
development and humanitarian relief nongovernmental
organizations. They
offer Monday Developments Magazine,
a monthly publication which provides in-depth news and
commentary on global trends that affect relief, refugee and development
work, an online job board for those seeking careers in international
development, and a coffee table
book featuring a collection of images demonstrating
effective assistance around the globe.
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International
Food Policy Research Institute
The
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable
solutions for ending hunger and poverty. They offer
books about food security, agriculture, biotechnology
and more.
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International
Youth Foundation
The International Youth Foundation (IYF) is working in close to 70 countries and territories to improve the conditions and prospects for young people where they live, learn, work, and play. IYF's "Our Time is Now: Young People Changing the World" tells the stories of more than thirty young people in over twenty countries who are taking action to contribute to their local and global communities. IYF's "What Works in Youth Development" series provides practitioners, policy makers, and donors with insights into policies and innovative approaches impacting young people around the world.
o Lutheran World Relief
Lutheran World Relief works with partners in 35 countries to help people grow food, improve health, strengthen communities, end conflict, build livelihoods and recover from disasters. They advocate for Fair Trade that helps farmers and artisans earn a better income. Buy fairly traded coffee, tea, chocolate and handcrafts. LWR also offers alternative gifts.
o MADRE
Give a gift that gives to women worldwide. Shop at MADRE's Webstore for unique items hand-crafted by our sister organizations and for cool MADRE gear. Proceeds support MADRE's programs for women's human rights. MADRE also offers alternative gifts.
o Mothers Acting Up
Mothers Acting Up exists to inspire and mobilize mothers to advocate on behalf of the world's children. They offer a 2009 calendar, The Moment, dedicated to moments of personal change. It is also a a daily planner that offers tools, information, weekly actions and portraits of people who inspire our own activism – from the mom next door, to Isabel Allende, Paul Hawken, Mukhtar Mai, Julie Chavez Rodriguez and Ann Veneman.
o Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
NAPF is an international educational and advocacy organization on issues of international peace and security. They offer books, T-shirts and seeds of peace.
o OneWorld.net
Shop for OneWorld.net products, including t-shirts, holiday cards, totebags & more. You can also shop 680 brand name stores through Igive.com and a portion of your online purchases will be donated to OneWorld.
o One World Youth Project
One World Youth Project is a sister-school program for middle and high school students, linking groups in the US/Canada with groups from around the world together in learning partnerships for the purpose of community service toward the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). They offer MDG shirts and all proceeds from shirt sales go to support One World Youth Project's youth action for the Millennium Development Goals.
o Women Thrive Worldwide
Women Thrive Worldwide (formerly Women's Edge Coalition) fosters economic opportunity for women living in poverty worlwide. At Shop the Cause, a project of Women Thrive Worldwide, you can find beautiful, fairly traded gifts - jewelry, housewares, accessories, clothing, and more - that create economic opportunities for and directly benefit the women artisans in developing countries that make them. Here are just a handful of the items we like.
o Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch is a nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems. They offer a magazine, books and other publications.
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Alternative Gifts
Honor your loved ones with these gifts that support development projects from around the world!
o Academy for Educational Development
AED is an organization committed to solving critical social problems globally. Help support Speak for the Child Project , which helps children orphaned by AIDS in Kenya and their caregivers and and Change Through Children, which breaks the cycle of illness, illiteracy and poverty.
o The Advocacy Project
The Advocacy Project (AP) partners with over 20 community-based organizations worldwide. The focus of their work is helping their partners become self-sufficient in their use of information technology and business development. You can help to provide a month of psychosocial services for a widow, a month of weaving training and more. With each donation you give, your loved one will receive a personalized greeting card acknowledging that a gift has been made in their honor.
o American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. AFSC offers a meaningful way to recognize the importance of your loved ones. You can support the worthwhile and life-serving programs of the AFSC, while honoring your relatives and friends at the same time. For each gift of $25 or more, you will receive a colorful card with art by Anna Oneglia. AFSC also offers gift products.
o Ashoka
Ashoka is a global non-profit organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for change in their communities. If you would like to make a contribution in honor of or in memory of a special person, please indicate so on your donation. Ashoka will send a letter notifying the person being honored if you provide us with their contact information. Getting married? Several generous couples have decided to ask their wedding guests to donate to Ashoka instead of buying gifts. Similar arrangements have been made for retirement and graduation parties.
o Asia America Initiative
Asia America Initiative (AAI) conducts community-based peace mediation through integrating health, education and livelihood development in impoverished conflict-plagued areas throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Here are the programs you can support: Midwives, Adopt a Classroom, Community Service Scholarships, Music For Peace and Peace Zone schools.
o Centre for Development & Population Activities
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is an international nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of women and girls worldwide. Honor someone for their birthday,wedding, in memoriam or in tribute to make an investment in the dreams of girls and the power of women. CEDPA also offers gift products.
o
Coptic
Orphans
Coptic
Orphans has a creative gift catalogue with alternative
gifts that benefit vulnerable children in Egypt and families
that have lost their primary provider. They will send
your gift to a child that needs it most and send you or the person in
whose honor you made your gift a postcard recognizing the change you have
made in the life of a child in Egypt. Coptic Orphans also offers
gift products.
o GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving
is an online marketplace that connects you to
pre-screened grassroots community development projects around the world.
It’s an easy and effective way to contribute to the causes and countries
you care most about, and allows you to stay connected with the projects
through regular updates so you know, firsthand, the positive difference
your gift has made. You can make a donation in honor of someone, or buy
one of our electronic or biodegradable gift cards that offer the recipient
the chance to give a gift with an impact: from rescuing a girl from bonded
labor in Nepal and paying for her schooling, to providing mosquito netting
that will spare a family in Mali from malaria. GlobalGiving is a great
way to honor your mom by giving back this Mother’s Day.
o
Global
Health Council
Global
Health Council is the largest membership alliance
advocating for health worldwide. From
malaria to preventable childhood diseases, HIV/AIDS to avian flu, it serves
as a powerful voice for building action and progress to
improve health worldwide.
o
Global
Partners for Development
Global
Partners for Development works with community organizations in
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
All
of their projects are generated by their African partners and community
participation is a crucial requirement for funding by Global Partners.
They have a Global Gift catalog to support projects focused on
women’s economic development, health,
clean water, animal husbandry and education.
o
Grassroots
International
GRI
supports
social
change movements in six countries of
the Global South and educates and advocates in the U.S. You can make a
donation on behalf of someone, and GRI will send a special card to the
honoree commemmorating your thoughtful gift in their name.
o
Hesperian
Hesperian
produces books that help people without access to medical care save lives
and empower their communities. Each year Hesperian gets thousands of requests
for books from health workers, teachers and others who cannot afford to
buy books. Honor the special people in your life with a Hesperian
Gift of Health. Your
honorees receive an illustrated card letting them know that a life-saving
book or set of books was sent in their names to a poor community in Africa,
Asia, or Latin America. This book or set of books will provide critical
support to communities that lack access to healthcare. Hesperian also
offers
gift
products.
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International
Rescue Committee
When
people have been forced to flee war, persecution or natural disaster,
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has led them to safety and self-reliance.
Honor someone in your life with a gift that helps
families uprooted by crisis survive and rebuild their lives.
Choose a gift basket that represents what matters to you most: Health,
Safety, Education or a place to call Home.
o
Lutheran
World Relief
Lutheran
World Relief: The LWR Community Quilt provides 84 ways to help people
around the world lift themselves out of poverty. Each of the twelve Gift
Squares in the LWR Community Quilt represents a different area of our
multi-faceted work, including
food for a refugee family in Liberia, to tree seedlings in India,
to health care in Gaza. LWR
also offers gift
products.
o
MADRE
Give
a gift that helps realize your dream of a better world. MADRE
is
an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership
with community-based women's groups in conflict areas worldwide.
Make
a gift to MADRE
in
honor of someone special. The honoree will receive a beautiful card from
you and the women you supported with your donation.
MADRE also offers
gift
products.
o Mercy
Corps
Mercy
Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping
people build secure, productive and just communities.
Mercy
Kits
are
a unique and meaningful way for you to honor
friends, family and co-workers, while also helping the world's most vulnerable
people. Kits focus on disaster
relief, child health, shelter and more.
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Network
for Good
Network
for Good's website provides an easy way to give
to all your favorite charities in one place.
Buy a Good
Card–a
gift card for charity. You personalize the card (which can be sent via
email or regular mail) and your recipient donates to their charity of
choice.
o
Oxfam
America
Feeling
sheepish about giving another useless gift? Oxfam America offers unexpected
ways to get exactly what someone needs and
make a difference in the fight against poverty.
Pick
from more than 50 gifts, such as a sheep, planting 100 trees, a bicycle,
or a goat. Here’s how it works: You choose the gift. Your friend or loved
one receives a card. Your gift helps someone in need.
o
PEACE
X PEACE
PEACE
X PEACE
helps women organize and
connect across
cultural and religious divides via the Internet. Honor someone you love.
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Unitarian
Universalist Service Committee
UUSC
envisions a world free from oppression and injustice, where all can realize
their full humna rights. You can purchase
holiday cards, note cards and other merchandise.
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Women's
Learning Partnership (WLP)
WLP
empowers women and girls in the Global South
to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in
their families, communities, and societies. Working in partnership with
18 organizations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, WLP
provides leadership training and
enables women to use new technologies to
generate and receive information and knowledge.
Your support for WLP and our partners' efforts will help advance women's
rights and freedoms around the world. Honor a friend or family member
with a donation and WLP will send an acknowledgement of your gift to the
recipient of your choice.
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