Holiday Gift Guide, 2011

I had grandiose plans since last year: compiling a massive gift guide the likes of which have never been seen before. But, 1) they pretty much already exist online (not exactly as I had envisioned it, but still, it's been done), and 2) December 2011 came around much quicker than December-2010-me imagined it would.

I also started to realize that a lot of people/organizations have similar gift guides, so I'm going to do a combination here...I'm going to re-post other people's guides that I find useful, and that list some of the organizations I already had in mind, and I'll post my "supplemental" gift guide with other ideas for you. I hope it's helpful :)

Rage Against the Minivan's Gift Guide includes:

• Ever/After Clothing
• Slow Color Scarves (I want!)
• Krochet Kids (future Charity of the Month, for suresies)
• 31 Bits (I think you all know my obsession with them already)
• Not For Sale
• Haitian Creations (this blogger is a woman after my own heart)
• Heart of Haiti at Macy's (beautiful home decor)
• International Rescue Committee
• Leakey Collection Jewelry
• World Vision (HUGE gift catalog...from goats to wells to business loans)
• Whipped body/hair butter (helping raise money for family's adoption)
• Give Prints (looks pretty cool!)
• Compassion International (draught survival kits, playgrounds, soccer balls, etc.)
• Collaborative World (great clothing company--they actually have a gift guide below!)
• Punjamies

Collaborative World's Gift Guide includes:

• Chains for Chains
• 50 Back (it's a beer!)
• Give Prints (link above)
• One Hope Wine
• Project 7
• 31 Bits (link above)
• Unite Clothing

Nicholas Kristoff's Annual Column on "Gifts that Say You Care" includes:

• International Rescue Committee (link above)
• Care (help buy school uniforms for girls)
• Heifer International (great org, prior Charity of the Month)
• Mercy Corps (great user interface! let's you shop by picking who you're shopping for and/or what that person is interested in)
• Helen Keller International
• Against Malaria
• Reading is Fundamental
• The Citizens Foundation
• GEMS

Yahoo Gifts that Give Back include:

• Same Sky Bracelets
• Dannijo jewelry
• Jeans that help kids stay in school
• RxArt coloring book
• Tory Burch gives that give back

My "supplemental gift guide":

(um, I was hoping to link to it but it seems like this will have to do until I switch over to Wordpress and can actually upload PDF documents. sigh).

Holiday Gift Guide

Happy Shopping!