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.

Socks 'N Undies

"Where Do You Give?" just mentioned us on their blog and we would like to say thank you!  


http://wheredoyougive.org/blog/post/little-givers


We also love the idea of donating socks - what an easy and fun way to give back:  

As parent Jennifer Maulsby explains, “It can be hard for kids to understand what it means to go hungry, but they get what could happen if they didn’t have socks to keep their little toes warm.”* Maulsby runs the New York operation of SocksnUndies, which distributes new socks, undergarments and toiletries to homeless shelters. Their website (socksnundies.org) offers a step-by-step guide for families or classes to organize a sock collection and examine the how’s and why’s of giving. It explains, for example, that issues of warmth and comfort may initially resonate with children, but these conversations may also lead children to understand that we take action in order to help others uphold personal dignity. 


Happy Giving!

C Is For Cookies!

Who doesn't love cookies?  Especially as a surprise thank you.  

Here's a fun family activity:  make and decorate cookies and deliver them to your local firehouse or police station to show your appreciation.  Not only is it an easy and fun project for children, it teaches them to remember to say 'thank you' to those who give of themselves every day to keep us safe.

Happy Giving (and baking)!