Giving Tuesday Offers Worthy Ways To Give

World Concern

World Concern is encouraging folks on #GivingTuesday to give gifts that change lives instead of buying more stuff with the Global Gift Guide. <a href="www.worldconcern.org">www.worldconcern.org</a>

ActionAid

After 40 years of progress in the fight the end poverty and injustice, ActionAid feels strong. We feel at peace. We have a sense of comfort, harmony and joy. We want you and loved ones to feel the same. That?s why we?re offering you the opportunity to spread the spirit by reducing global hunger, empowering women, protecting ourplanet, preventing violence against women and girls, building resilient communities, providing life-saving aid in times of disaster and offering a brighter future for children living in poverty. This year, rather than give your family and friends more sweaters or electronic gadgets, consider a gift that is both meaningful and life changing. Instead, give them something they will feel good about forever. <a href="www.actionaidusa.org/">www.actionaidusa.org/</a>

Plant With Purpose

Get to the root of poverty this season by giving alternative gifts through Plant With Purpose. These gifts will result in transformed lives through environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal for the rural poor in 6 developing countries. See Scott Sabin's Huffington Post, Giving Tuesday blog or the Plant With Purpose website for more detail. <a href="www.plantwithpurpose.org/">www.plantwithpurpose.org/</a>

Counterpart International

We are participating in InterAction's #GivingTuesday partnership with the Huffington Post Impact blog. A story of ours will appear on HuffPost in early November. We will continue to work with InterAction throughout November to promote Giving Tuesday. We are also planning on raising awareness within our office - ensuring staff know about the day and promote it within their circles. <a href="www.counterpart.org/">www.counterpart.org/</a>

Handicap International

Thirty years ago, our founder saw Cambodian refugees fall victim to landmines, and then be left without basic prosthetics, crutches or any rehabilitation. With retraining, he assembled a team and began making prosthetics and orthotics. He helped victims regain their strength to stand tall again, and rejoin society. Today, Handicap International still supports landmine victims with comprehensive rehabilitation, but we also clear landmines (and other unexploded ordnance), and we work especially hard teaching children, women and men to avoid the leftover weapons that pollute their fields, paths to school, and playgrounds. Working in 60 countries, our work extends far beyond landmines. This year, on #GivingTuesday, we?re asking Americans to take a minute to get to know Kanha, a Cambodian girl who lost her leg to an explosive remnant of war in 2005. We hope Americans will see how a little action here, in the U.S., can make a profound difference to a young, promising girl in Cambodia. <a href="handicap-international.us/">handicap-international.us/</a>

WaterAid

WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in the world's poorest communities. You can support WaterAid on #GivingTuesday by buying a virtual gift from our SH2OP for life at www.wateraidamerica.org/shop <a href="www.wateraid.org/">www.wateraid.org/</a>

Population Action International

Population Action International advocates for women and families to have access to contraception in order to improve their health, reduce poverty and protect their environment. We're participating in the Huffington Post #GivingTuesday blog series, creating a visual series on Facebook, and promoting Giving Tuesday among our supporters. <a href="populationaction.org/">populationaction.org/</a>

International Medical Corps

We are creating a video campaign to raise awareness of #GivingTuesday, participating in social media, and contributing to the HuffingtonPost blog series. <a href="internationalmedicalcorps.org/">internationalmedicalcorps.org/</a>

Trickle Up

Trickle Up plans on bringing greater awareness and support to the #GivingTuesday initiative through social media, press coverage on online outlets with our other NGO partners at InterAction, and finally through our NYC-based volunteers. <a href="www.trickleup.org/">www.trickleup.org/</a>

Lutheran World Relief

Lutheran World Relief is thrilled to be a #GivingTuesday partner! Join us by "giving good" through LWR Gifts and help someone in need unwrap a better life. <a href="www.lwr.org/">www.lwr.org/</a>

Jesuit Refugee Service/USA

Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (http://jrsusa.org) is an international Catholic non-governmental organization whose mission is to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons. On #GivingTuesday, we'll highlight the plight of Urban Refugees through stories, videos and photographs on our website and elsewhere. <a href="jrsusa.org/">jrsusa.org/</a>

Shelterbox

ShelterBox USA is an international disaster relief organization whose mission is to deliver humanitarian relief in the form of equipment and materials that bring shelter, warmth and dignity to people made homeless by natural or other disasters worldwide. Follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook for updates about how you can join ShelterBox USA on #GivingTuesday. <a href="www.shelterboxusa.org/">www.shelterboxusa.org/</a>

Catholic Relief Services

CRS is honored to be part of #GivingTuesday! We are working on our new gift catalog that will allow you to choose a project that inspires you in order to help make it a reality and transform lives of our brothers and sisters overseas. More info to come.<a href="crs.org/"> crs.org/</a>

The Hunger Project

As a member of the InterAction coalition, The Hunger Project is promoting the #GivingTuesday campaign across all activist networks -- email, web, social -- to celebrate and advocate for the widespread recognition of this day of philanthropy. And on November 21, THP President and CEO Mary Ellen McNish will be featured on the Huffington Post's #GivingTuesday blog series discussing the importance of partnering with government to ensure sustainable development around the world. <a href="www.thp.org/">www.thp.org/</a>

Save the Children

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization for children. At Save the Children, we are celebrating Giving Tuesday by sharing our gratitude for the girls and boys who have a brighter future thanks to the generosity of our donors. <a href="www.savethechildren.org/">www.savethechildren.org/</a>

CARE

A peer-to-peer fundraising contest in which people challenge their friends to raise money for CARE by #GivingTuesday. The person who raises the most earns a trip to see CARE?s poverty-fighting programs up close in one of the 84 countries where we work around the world. ? A Donor Appreciation Telethon whereby CARE employees will thank supporters for their gifts. A special phone bank will be set up at our Atlanta headquarters. Awards, called ?Givvies,? will be given to employees at the end of the day for things like making the most thank-you calls, etc. ? A #GivingTuesday video that will be posted on CARE?s website and shared through social media. ? A giving-themed Birthday Party for CARE at our Atlanta-based headquarters and regional offices around the country (Serendipitously, CARE was founded on Nov. 27, 1945 ? a Tuesday!). ? A #GivingTuesday landing page that will feature the video and a Twitter feed. ? On Giving Tuesday, CARE?s Washington, D.C. staff will donate CARE Packages of toiletries and bedding to SAFE, a local nonprofit that supports women who have experienced domestic violence. <a href="www.careusa.org/">www.careusa.org/</a>

ChildFund

ChildFund is honored to be a part of the inaugural #GivingTuesday. We will encourage our donors to give back through our Gifts of Love & Hope Catalog, Fund-a-Project or simply writing their sponsored child. <a href="www.childfund.org/">www.childfund.org/</a>

Heifer

Heifer International makes holiday shopping more meaningful with its gift catalog of animals that will provide nutrition and income to hungry families around the world. Heifer will provide a gorgeous honor card to the gift recipient. <a href="www.heifer.org/">www.heifer.org/</a>

Winrock

Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources. Winrock will work in partnership with InterAction to share information about #GivingTuesday in the Huffington Post blog series. We will promote the campaign in our Innovations newsletter and through our social media channels. <a href="www.winrock.org/">www.winrock.org/</a>

U.S. Fund for UNICEF

For every dollar donated to UNICEF for a measles vaccine from now until #GivingTuesday, an anonymous donor through the U.S. Fund for UNICEF will match it $1-for-$1, up to a maximum of $15,000 ($5,000 for social media and $10,000 for email). Each year, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF offers holiday shoppers an array of holiday cards and gifts, as well as a lineup of exclusive products sold in partnership with top brands to benefit UNICEF?s lifesaving programs for children across the globe. For millions of children in developing countries, a gift purchased from UNICEF?s holiday collection means supporting programs that improve and protect lives. <a href="www.unicefusa.org/">www.unicefusa.org/</a>

InterAction

InterAction is spreading the word about #GivingTuesday through our social media networks and through our joint Huffington Post series with the UN Foundation, 92nd Street Y, and others, featuring blogs from InterAction members and others involved in #GivingTuesday. Throughout the month of November, we are hosting a food drive. On Tuesday, November 27 we will take the donated food over to the Martha?s Table, an local DC organization dedicated to fulfilling the needs of low-income and homeless children, families, and individuals. <a href="www.interaction.org/">www.interaction.org/</a>

UN Foundation

The United Nations Foundation is playing an integral role in #GivingTuesday's online communications and social media efforts. <a href="www.unfoundation.org/">www.unfoundation.org/</a>

Medical Teams International

We are helping raise awareness for #GivingTuesday through our 2012 Gift Catalog available at www.medicalteams.org/gifts. Supporters can also bring materials for Personal Care Kits that we distribute to local communities here in the U.S. We are also contributing to the Huffington Post blog series. <a href="www.medicalteams.org/">www.medicalteams.org/</a>

Concern Worldwide

Every six seconds, a child dies from hunger. This #GivingTuesday, you can save a life by doing something simple. Join our Concern for Hunger campaign and make hunger history by donating the price of your favorite holiday food to fighting hunger and malnutrition in the world?s poorest countries. A little goes a long way. For what it costs to make a batch of mashed potatoes ($11), you can help save a child?s life in Niger from malnutrition by providing a week?s supply of therapeutic food. Or, for the price of your favorite pie ($14), you can provide a three-day supply of emergency food like rice and cooking oil to a family of five in Afghanistan. The cost of a honey-based ham ($55) can provide a family of six in Somalia vouchers to get a months? worth of food. Every dollar raised will go to support Concern Worldwide?s programs that not only treat malnutrition, but prevent it through investments in agriculture, food production, and training and education. Please join us and help make hunger history <a href="http://www.concernusa.org/givingtuesday">here.</a> <a href="www.concernusa.org/">www.concernusa.org/</a>

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/giving-tuesday-ways-to-give_n_2198148.html

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