This blog is full of gift ideas. You may want to search this site for the word “gifts” to see what comes up (a lot). But a few posts would be a good starting place:
My 2008 post on “Philanthropic Mother’s Day Gifts“
My 2008 post on “Philanthropic Father’s Day Gifts“ One reader commented on the post by saying “My dad’s 78 and at this point in his life has what he wants and needs. He is not big on exchanging gifts so most times I don’t bother unless I randomly come across something that I know he’ll love and use. But what I never thought of was giving him the gift of letting him know that I learned and am living some of his lessons and am continuing to pay it forward, because of him.” Sound familiar? Check it out.
Lists, Lists, Lists. Compiled over the holiday season. Some require money, some don’t.
Charity Gift Certificates The advantage of these virtual purchases? You procrastinators out there can usually print something off the internet the night before.
This suggestion was sent to me by a new twitter friend, Ruth-Anne Renaud of Opportunity International, and is taken from her blog post over at the Bono/Bobby Shriver ONE organization:
“Check out the heartwarming Global Opportunity Quilt sponsored by the Women’s Opportunity Network. This Mother’s Day, I’m purchasing tribute patches on the virtual quilt [$25 each] to honor special women in my life and to give a hand-up to women who need it the most. I can choose from several beautiful Mother’s Day patches by artist Dawn Feller, and then write a tribute that can be read by everyone visiting the virtual quilt. Each woman I honor receives an email with a link to view the quilt plus a gift card that can be used to help another woman with a life-changing loan at OptINnow. It’s fun to visit the quilt (I must admit…I do it several times daily) to see all the wonderful messages that have been posted.”
One last gift idea: don’t buy a card with someone else’s thoughts about someone else’s mother. Write your mom a letter from you. For inspiration, check out my letter to my father on his 60th birthday.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Tags: charity, gift certificates, gift ideas, mother's day
May 4, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
Great post Sharon. I can say it doesn’t get more symbolic than this – how about – this Mother’s Day – we ask you to consider Adopting a Mom in support of Rethink Breast Cancer and their Support Saturday’s program. We created this unique site for Rethink and just launched it last week… Donations going well! Cheers! john (@ideadesign_ca)