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Giving, Changing, Caring

Started by Karoli · 7 months ago

I hate what I’m seeing whenever I go out lately. It’s not shopping, it’s frenzied, piggish consumerism. This year it seems more insane than in years past, with people literally lunging ahead of others to get that last whatever-it-is that they have to ha ... Continue reading »

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  • Robert Tolmach

    2 years ago

    This was in the press release for ChangingThePresent.org:

    Every year, Americans spend $250 billion--$100 billion during the holiday season, alone--buying presents for one another. Imagine, for one delirious moment, what we could accomplish if even a small percentage of that gift money were redirected to nonprofits working to make the world a better place.
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  • Frank Fitzgerald

    2 years ago

    Want to support charity when you shop? One option is to shop at what the Yahoo Directory calls a "Virtual Fundraising Mall." The best of these is www.HEARTof.com. It has over 670 well-known stores -- from Amazon.com to Zappos.com -- where every purchase earns a significant donation for the charity, school, or other worthy cause of your choice. HEARTof.com is the best because of its exceptional number and variety of stores and because it pays the web's biggest donations for sites of this type.
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