This holiday season, you can donate to support work to protect coral reefs, fight global warming, protect sea creatures and eliminate unsustainable fishing. In return of your contribution, the recipient of your choice will receive an ocean-themed cookie cutter, an adoption certificate, a limited edition baking mitt and a sugar cookie recipe developed especially for this program by Warren Brown, owner of acclaimed bakery, CakeLove. Save the fish, eat cookies!!
Options available for $35.00, $75.00 $100.00 and $250.00 at Oceana

Heifer International allows you to donate anything from a cow (or a portion of a cow) to a llama to a flock of chickens in your recipient’s name. They offer printable gift inserts and e-cards for last-minute giving. also offers online gift cards you can print out yourself.

From the Heifer.org website:

Heifer’s mission is: to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.

$10.00 through $10,000.00 at heifer.org

Kiva is the charitable organization that everyone is talking about. No wonder!! they do great stuff! The scoop from the Kiva website:

Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you’ve sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.

Kiva gift certificates let you give someone the power to change lives.
$25.00 - $5000.00 at Kiva.org

This gift basket is a recycled, reusable bin-with a front panel for notes. It contains chocolate covered pretzels, snickerdoodle cookies, peanuts, hard candies, a peanut crunch candy bar and chocolate balls. All organic, of course.
$69.00 at Viva Terra

This fun basket for your favorite tea lover is delivered in a one-of-a- kind basket hand carved from the root of a reclaimed Chinese fir. (they sell these baskets at my local farmer’s market and they are beautiful!) The basket contains organic loose leaf teas, rare black sage honey and some pecan cookies. A great yumm-a-licious gift!
$129.00 at Viva Terra

The bowl is made entirely of willow twigs….so original! and it comes stuffed with dried apricots, dried apples, almonds and cashews, all organic.
$79.00 at Viva Terra

From The Groovy Mind, a small sampling of their Fair Trade, organic wares. This gift box contains Fair Trade organic coffee, tea and chocolate along with two ceramic cups to help you cut down on disposable coffee cups. In addition, 10% of the profits from this gift box go to Asociación Civil Interrupción, a non-profit organization based in Buenos Aires that assist Argentine farmers and producers in the development of socially, economically and environmentally sustainable farming and production processes.
$60.00 at The Groovy Mind

The folks at The Groovy Mind donate 10% of the profits from this basket to the Carter Center Peace Program. The entire list of ingredients is too huge to list here, but this basket contains Fair Trade organic coffee, tea, and chocolate along with other organic Fair Trade delicacies. And of course, a groovy Magnetic Peace Sign for your car, boat or fridge.
$175.00 at The Groovy Mind

From the socially conscious folks over at The Groovy Mind this gift basket contains fair trade, shade grown coffee and tee plus a Rwandan peace ornament, tortilla chips and a peace sign! 10% of the profits of this basket are donated to the GLOBAL FUND to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Feel good about giving with this one!
$50.00 at The Groovy Mind

Where are you going to put all those stocking stuffers if you don’t have a stocking? This eco friendly version is made from recycled sweaters. Get one quick, cause once they are gone, they are not coming back!
$50.00 at Uncommon Goods