After a weekend of indulging in food, family, friends, and shopping, it’s time to think about gifts that give back on Giving Tuesday. This unconventional way of gifting shifts the focus away from stuff in favor of helping others in your community, in other areas of the country, and around the world. There’s no time…
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Giving Tuesday for Families: 4 Things Parents Should Know
What if the products you bought for your home, food that you consumed, clothes that you wore, and actions that you took did more? Today is Giving Tuesday, a global giving movement that centers around giving the gift of your time, donations, goods, or your voice. Every year on Giving Tuesday, our family reflects on…
2018 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Best Gifts for Your Beloved
Candy and flowers are nice but the true way to let someone know that you care is to give a great gift that they’ll enjoy using all year long. From gadgets, personalized Etsy finds to gifts that give back, here are 17 Valentine’s Day gifts ideas to let family members, relatives, and close friends know…
2017 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Gifts to Set Their Hearts Aflutter
While Valentine’s Day is a single day about love, I think we could all agree that it’s always important to love and celebrate those we hold near and dear to our hearts. Whether an immediate family member, relative, or a close friend who happens to provide kindness during a time you need it most, Valentine’s…
How Parents Can Inspire Kids to Give on Giving Tuesday and Beyond
This post is sponsored by Heifer International but we will be donating the money back to this organization that we’ve supported for years. Years ago when Thomas and Emily were just a toddler and a preschooler, my mother in law sent us an envelope around the holidays. Inside was the Heifer International, two $20 bills, and…
How You Can Help Provide Hurricane Matthew Relief for Haiti
For the past five years I’ve been traveling to Haiti. If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile, you know that I first went there in 2012, wanting to get to know the country beyond what was being reported on the news following the devastating 7.0 earthquake that rocked the island in 2010. People who…
6 Simple Ways to Teach Your Kids to Give on Giving Tuesday & Throughout the Year
Last night as I closed our book, turned off the light, and gave Thomas some goodnight kisses, he asked me what I was going to work on once he was asleep. “Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday,” I told him. I started to explain but he interrupted me. “I know. It’s when you buy things that help…
Stronger Together: How Our Voices & Actions Will Change the World
There are many days when the world’s problems seem so great especially when you’re just one person trying to make a difference. After all, how does a single individual make a difference for the 60 million refugees who have been displaced by war, create gender equality in countries where girls and women are denied education…
Shop. Donate. Learn. 3 Ways to Help Haiti 5 Years After the Earthquake #Bloggers4Haiti
On January 12, 2010 a devastating 7.0 earthquake shook Haiti for 39 seconds and did incredible damage not only to the country’s structures in the capital city of Port au Prince but to individuals who lost family members and their livelihoods but not their spirit and determination. Like so many who turned on the news…
Purchase with a Purpose & the Importance of Buying Gifts that Give Back
After Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Shop Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday comes Giving Tuesday. Founded in 2012, Giving Tuesday is an idea that’s only two years young but is a global celebration where charities, families, businesses, communities, and students come together in order to celebrate generosity and give. The idea behind Giving Tuesday is so…
