Who Stole The Cookies From the Cookie Jar?

I love making everyday items look special.  This is an adorable idea that would also be easy for a child to help with - measuring cookie ingredients and filling mason jars with the ingredients.  Attach the recipe to the jar and voila!  An instant gift.  These could be donated to a senior center or sold as part of a charity drive.

Happy Giving!

Eat Your Heart Out!

From March 23rd to April 1st when you dine out at more than 1,000 restaurants, bars, and clubs in NYC, The Brooklyn Young Mothers' Collective gets up to 6% of your purchase. The Brooklyn Young Mothers' Collective provides disadvantaged young mothers with a comprehensive set of services focused on their educational attainment and social development to help them to become self-sufficient adults.  For more information, please visit www.bymcinc.org  To participate, register here:  https://www.goodsearch.com/gooddining  (As a side note, Good Dining offers many different organizations to sponsor for this discount, or you can work on adding your own!). Happy giving (and eating!)

Not Just Cleaning The World, Changing It

The UN just named Seventh Generation a 2011 Leader of Change in recognition of its outstanding leadership and exemplary commitment to the pursuit of environmental sustainability and social responsibility.  As if we needed another reason to love these great products….

Happy Giving!

Color Color Color!

Here's an easy way for your children to give to someone in your community - have them make a card to welcome a new neighbor and deliver it with a little treat.  This will help teach little ones to care about their neighbors, plus it may result in a new friend!

Happy Giving!

Where's The Soul?

'Brainy Kids Coveted, But Where's The Soul?' is an excellent article by Lori Borgman printed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently.  It talks about how there is such an emphasis on raising SMART children, but not enough on raising GOOD children.  We need parents to care about teaching principles and ethics just as much as focusing on test scores.

This is where Little Givers comes in!  Little Givers can assist parents by helping to teach these qualities and provide resources to busy parents -  making it easier to give back to our communities and instilling those intangible qualities in our future generation.