Giving Tuesday | Brand A Charitable Donation Together With Become A $20 Gift Card!

 Did you lot know that at that topographic point is plenty nutrient on the planet correct this instant to feed everyone inwards the world? 

‘When did nosotros ever encounter you lot hungry too feed you, thirsty too give you lot a drink? And when did nosotros ever encounter you lot sick or inwards prison theater too come upward to you?’ Then the King volition say, ‘I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you lot did i of these things to mortal overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.’ - Matthew 25

I don't give out of a need to learn bonus points or to redeem myself inwards some way, or to assist me "feel" the vacation spirit.  These types of giving drib dead to a greater extent than close myself than others.  I give because I desire to help.  I believe that this world, this public is filled with then much bounty, then many gifts - plenty for everyone.  I similar to assist others, strangers too ignored people simply equally I would assist my own.  We receive got enough, nosotros simply receive got to figure out how to share.  I receive got to a greater extent than than enough, then I share.  If you lot are reading this blog, you lot probable receive got plenty to share. 

Each yr I part my favorite ways to give (read final year's here).  Throughout the vacation flavor I honor a agency to give spontaneously to strangers, Emma helps me pick out toys to donate toys to children's' charities, I spend some time volunteering and too I give money.  I e'er give anonymously, if possible.  The credit is non mine to take.  I probably know I don't give equally much equally I can, but I try.  All of these things receive got some planning, but for me are a component of our vacation schedule - because nosotros receive got enough, likewise much, non to share.  

Giving Tuesday

I know that most of you lot are givers, too.  Today I am going to give to you lot for giving to others.  For the showtime 10 people who donate whatever sum to a charity of their alternative (I've listed some of my favorites below), I volition shipping you lot a $20 gift menu for my store.  Forward the confirmation electronic mail to store@jennysteffens.com from your donation (again, of whatever charity of your alternative - church, foundation, soup kitchen, whatever) too I volition shipping you lot a code for a $20 gift card.  

We all desire to give, but sometimes nosotros don't know how or who.  I've listed some of my favorites below - some local, some global.  I would honey to know some of your favorites, equally well!

Hope House (this is a local domestic violence shelter, but it is slow to honor i inwards your neighborhood)

The mission : Hope House services cast a security internet of prevention, teaching too back upward for thousands of people traumatized yesteryear domestic violence every yr locally inwards the Kansas City area.  

Your coin at travel :  Last yr nosotros donated a automobile total of gifts to their Holiday Store where the women are able to "shop" for gifts for their children.  So, a woman rear who is a victim of domestic abuse too who is living amongst her children inwards a shelter volition receive got gifts to give her children on Christmas morning.

Action Against Hunger

The mission: To feed malnourished children around the public too assist communities grow their ain nutrient sources.  It’s simple. Action Against Hunger/ACF International fulfills its mission yesteryear delivering assistance to seven meg people inwards to a greater extent than than twoscore countries annually. “Saving the most vulnerable is our showtime priority, then nosotros focus on rescuing immature children who are on the brink of death, too nosotros receive got a xc pct survival charge per unit of measurement inwards the communities where nosotros work,” says the organization’s main executive officer, Nan Dale. The grouping doesn’t solely offering handouts: In Kenya, ACF has taught to a greater extent than than 43,000 people how to found vegetable gardens too industrial plant life crops that are resistant to drought.

Your coin at work: A $45 donation provides 45 days of especial energy-dense nutrient for a severely malnourished child.

OxFam American Unwrapped
The Mission : Oxfam America is a global arrangement working to correct the wrongs of poverty, hunger, too injustice. As i of 17 members of the international Oxfam confederation, nosotros travel amongst people inwards to a greater extent than than xc countries to practise lasting solutions. Oxfam saves lives, develops long-term solutions to poverty, too campaigns for social change.

Your coin at travel : $18 tin purchase a yoke of chickens which produces both eggs too infant chicks, providing families amongst income for today too tomorrow—making this a gift that’s worth crowing about.  A $100 donation tin fund a woman's novel business.

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