Share the true spirit of Christmas... give a gift that can change a life!
Before you start your holiday shopping, hold a family meeting. Ask everyone to take out their wish list and mark one item off the list and instead apply the value of that gift as a donation to a charity of their choice. Adults and school-age children can research a variety of charities via the internet to help determine who to support. Or as a group pool the money together for a single family donation. If you have trouble deciding which charity to support, put the charity names in a hat and draw a name. Then on Christmas day, pick a time during the day to share with each other the organziation(s) the family supported and say a prayer for the recipients of your generosity.
Where to begin your search? Go to the Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half of its annual advertising revenues to charity. Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/. For every Web search you launch from its site, GoodSearch gives roughly a penny to the charity of your choice (pick from over 39,000 organizations). Tempted to think this is chump change? Heifer International would disagree. This world-hunger nonfprofit earned almost $400 in four months. In Heifer terms, that's three sheep, four goats, or 21 rabbits donated to communities in need. In GoodSearch terms, that's about 65 supppoters conducting five search.
To help you get started, search the following: United Way, Feed the Children, Heifer, World Vision, and Share Our Strength.
What a wonderful family tradition to start...Create a spirit of giving "to others" within your home.
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERECE!
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