2007 Gift It Up! Participants

These gifts represent only a few of the options for gifts from each organization that we have at our gift fair.  Please contact us for more possibilities to honor your loved ones!

Conscious Consuming
$10 Provide 10 Conscious Consuming bike stickers to bike commuters
$25 Spread the Word!  100 Conscious Consuming brochures printed on post consumer waste paper by a local, union printer.
$33 Sponsor a Conscious Consuming speaker potluck
All Paws Rescue
$25 Feeds two kittens for a month
$50 Bottle feeding and foster care for three newborn kittens
$75 Spay/Neuter and vaccinate one cat
EarthWorks
$20 Provides 20 pounds of fruit for our City Fruit program
$30 Provides one hour of Outdoor Classrooms instruction to a Boston Public School class
$50 Plants a tree in an underforested area of Boston
eInc
$10 Help buy specialized microscopes for children to take on investigational site visits
$25 Art work materials for one child on the eInc Rainforest Investigation Team that works on deforestation projects
$50 Sponsor a child in a 10-week hands-on science and action team
Mass Energy Consumers Alliance
$15 Offset over 300 lbs of carbon dioxide use by supporting the creation of a local nonprofit windpower project
$25 Support creation of carbon-free wind power to offset a whole month's of winter electical use for one home
$50 Oil Bank: Help a low-income family heat their home this holiday season
Prison Book Program
$7 Buy and send a dictionary
$10 Buy and send a Spanish/English dictionary
$25 Buy and send a GED book
Spare Change News
$10 Print 100 issues of Spare Change News and enable homeless vendor to earn $75
$25 Print 500 of the new Whats Up supplement in Spare Change
$50 Support the Writer's Fund(provides stipends for homeless writers) - gift recipient listed in a January issue
The Network/La Red
$10 Prints 300 palm cards providing information and resources to GLBT survivors of domestic violence
$25 Provides groceries for GLBT survivor of domestic violence in our emergency shelter program
$50 Buys A Night of Safety, our emergency shelter program
Grassroots International
$10 Plant a backyard organic garden in Oaxaca, Mexico to offset loss of coffee income
$25 Ship life-saving antibiotics for 100 patients to a hospital in Gaza
$36 Provide materials to build a water cistern to supply potable water to a community in a semi-arid region of Brazil
International Labor Rights Forum
$7 Send an ILRF kit with fair trade chocolate, child labor poster and educational info to one classroom
$20 Mail 49 letters to Wal-Mart demanding they monitor their suppliers for human rights abuses
$25 Provide legal support for a cut flower worker in Central America who has been fired for being pregnant or trying to unionize.
Free Wheelchair Mission
$10 Ship one wheelchair
$28 Manufacture one wheelchair
$50 Manufacture, ship and deliver one wheelchair
African Health Foundation
$15 Mosquito netting to protect three HIV-infected children from Malaria
$25 Two meals per day for an orphan for one month
$35 Building materials for new well to provide clean water.