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Christmas Gifts that Give Twice
With the economy the way that it is now, we'd all like to see our dollars go a bit further and make a difference.
On this lens you will find a list with information of many different products, resources and organizations that will let your holiday dollars stretch a bit further. You can also find some resources where you can make a difference, simply by clicking your mouse. Many of these gifts and donations make for great last minute gift choices.
Know if any others? Be sure to add them to the list of More Squidoo Lenses that Give More.
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Compilation of Lynne Lancaster's Red Bag and Jay Lopez's Red Mouse both Royalty Free Use.
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Give for Education
and to Help a Child
One Laptop Per Child
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One Laptop Per Child the Gift that Gives Twice for Christmas in 2008
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In 2007 Americans bought 100,000 laptops for children across the world. This year, One Laptop Per Child hopes to give 1 million laptops to children in the least developed countries around the world for 2008. Once again you can give a laptop and get...
One Laptop Per Child in the Amazon Spotlight
Donors Choose
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Donors Choose
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DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to addressing the scarcity and inequitable distribution of learning materials and experiences in our public schools. DonorsChoose.org attracts contributors from all walks of life through an approach called Citizen Phila...
Featured Lenses on Organizations Devoted to Reading
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First Book - Book Relief - Every Child Deserves a Bedtime Story
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Can you remember the magic of owning your first book? This is the mission of First Book, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children the opportunity to read and own their own first new book. First Book provide an ongoing supply of new b...
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Room to Read
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Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. They seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift...
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Reach Out and Read - Promoting Early Childhood Literacy
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Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national non-profit organization that promotes early literacy, because growing up healthy means growing up with books. During visits to the pediatrician, children get new books and parents get advice about the importance...
Give Sleepwear and a Book to a Child in Need
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The Pajama Program - A Charity for Children
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Imagine being a child, and every night the bedtime routine is to just get in bed and fall asleep. Not to put on pajamas, not to read a bedtime story, but to just lift a blanket over the clothes they are wearing and sleep. Thousand of children, here i...
Save a Life
Saving Children with HIV/AIDS - Keep a Child Alive
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Keep a Child Alive
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A single dollar can make a difference in the life of a child with HIV. Keep A Child Alive is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. 25 million people have already dead from AIDS, the disease continues, wiping out whole societies, t...
Save People from Malaria
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Nothing But Nets
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Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Malaria*, which was eradicated from the United States over 50 years ago, still claims one child's life worldwide every 30...
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Malaria No More - Lets You Give More this Christmas
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This Christmas a generous donor is allowing your gift giving dollars to do more. Until December 31, your gift of a net is doubled. Every dollar of any gift you make to end malaria in Africa will be matched, up to $250,000! So a gift of one net become...
Do Something about World Hunger
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Action Against Hunger
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Action Against Hunger is an international network committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families while ensuring access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger. They also deliver emergency aid and to people suffering fro...
Create for a Cause
Help Newborns - Knit One Save One
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Knit One Save One
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Save the Children is asking knitters and crocheters to knit or crochet one baby cap by December 31, 2008 and then to write a personal note to the President-elect asking him to lead the way to save millions of babies globally. Knit One Save One is a...
Help Soldiers and Veterans - Blankets for Soldiers
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Blankets for Soldiers and Veterans
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One of the special projects of Soldiers' Angels is to sew, knit or crochet blankets that get sent to soldiers with hope, with belief and with gratitude. If you can sew, knit, crochet consider getting involved and making one of these special gifts fo...
Give for Free
Validation - Short Film
Send an email message and share the uplifting short film, Validation.-
Validation - Short Film
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An amazing and inspiring short film about the importance of acknowledging and validating people. This film is much needed pick-me-up that will inspire you during the holiday season and afterward. This 16 minute short film shows the magic of looking...
Share Something Sweet
When you send an email card from the Ferrero Company's site a donation will be made to Share our Strength, working on ending hunger in the United States.-
Share Something Sweet
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True chocoholics rarely need an excuse to buy delicious chocolates. This holiday season the Ferrero Company, producers of the delectable Ferrero Rocher chocolates has made buying chocolates a bit sweeter. Your purchase of Ferrero chocolates benefit...
Give Something Reused
Recycle Jars - Give a Christmas Spirit Jar
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How to Make a Christmas Spirit Jar
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Keeping the Christmas Spirit alive the year 'round is something that many people would like to do. You can make your own Christmas Spirit Jar, often from materials you already have. Fill it with something that embodies Christmas Spirit to you. You c...
Recycle Jars - Give Away a Christmas Money Jar
You can recycle your jars into a Christmas Money Jar and create a new family tradition.-
Give a Christmas Jar or Anonymous Money Jar
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A Christmas Jar or Holiday Money Jar is a great new tradition to help spread the holiday spirit and encourage random acts of kindness. Consider starting a new family tradition this year, pass on the spirit of the holiday and give a money jar anonymou...
Recycle and Reuse Bags
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Reusable Gift Bags for Green Gifts
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One way of going greener at any time of the year is wrap presents and gifts with bags, towels, scarves and other items can be used long after the gift has been received. Whether you have a few hours, a few minutes, or a few seconds, this lens will h...
Give More with Your Clicks

Image Source: Compilation of Claudio Maciel's Red Present and Jay Lopez's Red Mouse both Royalty Free Use.
Websites that Let You Give More
- The Greater Good - Simple Online Ways to Make a Difference
- The GreaterGood Network of websites offer the public a unique opportunity to support causes they care about at no cost to them.
- Original Good - World of Good's Signature Fair Trade Products
- World of Good, Inc. engages people in changing the world through commerce that alleviates poverty and benefits the environment.
- Kiva - Loans that Change Lives
- Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
- Changing the Present
- Help make the world a better place, one gift at a time.
- Etsy - The World's Largest Online Craft Fair
- Etsy is an online marketplace for buying & selling all things handmade.
- World Wildlife Foundation
- "Adopt" from a selection of a different species, many of them endangered. The recipient can receive a plush toy of the adopted animal depending on the amount donated.
- SERRV International fair trade gifts and chocolate
- SERRV is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating poverty wherever it resides.
- The Gift of Giving
- The Gift of Giving Gift Cards for Charity are a thoughtful gift and give recipients the satisfaction of truly making a difference by supporting a charity that is special to them.
Share for Free
Click to Give More
Make a difference at The Hunger Site, The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Health Site, The Literacy Site, The Rainforest Site or The Animal Rescue Site.-
Click to Give - Make a Difference
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Just by volunteering a few minutes of your time and the click of a mouse, you can support a variety of charitable causes and organizations for free. You can click to donate for hunger, women's health, children's health, literacy, rainforest and anima...
Play a Game and Give
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FreeRice - Donate Free Rice - Discover Some New Words
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At FreeRice.com you can learn new words, improve your vocabulary at the same time you are donating free rice for the United Nation's World Food Program. When you play the game for each word you get right, FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to the Un...
Purchases that Can Make a Difference
Purchase a Computer and Give More
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One Laptop Per Child the Gift that Gives Twice for Christmas in 2008
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In 2007 Americans bought 100,000 laptops for children across the world. This year, One Laptop Per Child hopes to give 1 million laptops to children in the least developed countries around the world for 2008. Once again you can give a laptop and get...
One Laptop Per Child in the Amazon Spotlight
Purchase a Tote Bag and Give More
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Freeset Bags - A Great Gift that Makes a Big Difference
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One of my great finds for the year, Freeset Bags. Not only are these bags stylish, well-made, practical and eco-friendly, but in purchasing one of these bags you help a woman on her journey to freedom. How great is that? Freeset Bags are made by wom...
Purchase Ferrero Chocolates and Give More
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Share Something Sweet
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True chocoholics rarely need an excuse to buy delicious chocolates. This holiday season the Ferrero Company, producers of the delectable Ferrero Rocher chocolates has made buying chocolates a bit sweeter. Your purchase of Ferrero chocolates benefit...
Ferrero Chocolates Available on Amazon
Give a Tree
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Plant a Tree in Someone's Name
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When I was a little girl, my mom planted a pine tree in our side yard. Today that tree towers well over 100 feet, and I love to drive by the old house just to see it. Planting trees is a great way to commemorate an important event, whether it be a ce...
Shop with a Conscience
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Online Shopping with a Conscience
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In this dismal economy, charitable donations have--like everything else--suffered a pretty devastating blow. So many people are being laid off, and for those of us lucky enough to be employed, job security is tenuous at best. Prices are up and stocks...
Purchase Merchandise with a Meaning
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Whatever It Takes - Celebrity Designs for Charity
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Whatever It Takes is a unique charity artwork project. The concept is simple. They gather an artistic symbol of hope, a self portrait and a message of hope for the future from leaders in all fields; design, film, music, sports, etc. These artworks ar...
Organizations that Make a Difference
Join SquidKiva
Join Kiva supporters from the Squidoo community.-
SquidKiva - A Kiva Community for Squidoo Lensmasters
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SquidKiva is a Kiva Community of members from the Squidoo community. Kiva facilitates micro-loans to individuals worldwide that would otherwise not be afforded the opportunity to open or expand their small business. All squidoo lensmasters are welco...
Pay it Forward with Heifer International
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Heifer International: The Pay It Foward Entrepreneurial Charity
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The saying goes, "If you want to feed a man for a day, give him a fish. If you want to end his hunger, teach him to fish." Heifer International is the perfect example of how this wise saying works. The give the fish to get someone started, but then...
Other Organizations that Let You Give More to Help Others
- Oxfam America Unwrapped
- Oxfam America works in 120 countries around the world. This catalog contains gift items that symbolically represent our work. The items selected represent project goals from grants disbursed by our seven offices around the world. The purchase of each gift item is a contribution toward Oxfam America's many programs, not a donation to a specific project or goal. Your donation will be used where it is needed the most--to help people living in poverty throughout the world.
- International Charity - Volunteer or Donate Internationally
- UniversalGiving is dedicated to making giving and volunteering a natural part of everyday life! Connect with exceptional organizations working all over the world - in the places and on the issues that you care about most. They want your money to get to the people who deserve it most.
- Invest wisely. End poverty. | microfinance at MicroPlace
- MicroPlace's mission is to help alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world's working poor.
More Squidoo Lenses that Give More
A collection of Squidoo lenses featuring other organizations or products that give more.
If you know of a Squidoo lens that 'gives more' add it to the list below.
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SquidKiva - A Kiva Community for Squidoo Lensmasters
SquidKiva is a Kiva Community of members from the more...2 points
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Share Something Sweet
True chocoholics rarely need an excuse to buy deli more...1 point
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One Laptop Per Child the Gift that Gives Twice for Christmas in 2008
In 2007 Americans bought 100,000 laptops for child more...1 point
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Freeset Bags - A Great Gift that Makes a Big Difference
One of my great finds for the year, Freeset Bags. more...1 point
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Give a Christmas Jar or Anonymous Money Jar
A Christmas Jar or Holiday Money Jar is a great ne more...1 point
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Plant a Tree in Someone's Name
When I was a little girl, my mom planted a pine tr more...1 point
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Heifer International: The Pay It Foward Entrepreneurial Charity
The saying goes, 'If you want to feed a man for a more...1 point
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Christmas Shopping with a Conscience
In this dismal economy, the holiday season may be more...1 point
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Whatever It Takes - Celebrities Designing for Charity
Whatever It Takes is a unique charity artwork proj more...1 point
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The Pajama Program - A Charity for Children
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Your Purchases and Clicks Make a Difference

Alternative Gifts that Give More
- Case foundation - Gifts that Give
- Making a gift to charity in someone else's name is a way to honor someone you care about while making your dollars do good.
- 'Alternative' Gifts Give More Than Presents
- Once again the holiday season is here, and frenzied shoppers have begun scrambling to find interesting and meaningful gifts for the friends and family on their lists.
- Digital Doorway: Gifts That Give More
- As many of us gear up for the holiday season, purchasing gifts for everyone on our list can be difficult. This is especially true when we would rather not spend our money at Big Box stores that care little about where products are made.
- Gift giving that gives back
- This holiday season, with budgets stretched thin, we thought it made sense to find gifts that give twice: Presents with a ripple effect from your pocketbook to your neighbors, your community - or to the world.
- Web sites for gifts that give back -- chicagotribune.com
- Dreading those last-minute trips to the mall to buy the same old gloves and neckties? Then this year, opt for gifts that feel really good to give -- and not just because they cost less than $50 and can be purchased online.
- Some gifts give more than once by benefiting both the recipient and a local nonprofits
- Now that holiday shopping has begun in earnest, here are some suggestions for gifts that give more than once by benefiting both the lucky recipient and a nonprofit organization as well.
- Give more with your gifts this Christmas
- If you've ever had a problem "getting into" Christmas or feeling the Christmas spirit, there's no better way to fix it than helping others, and that's what I've been able to do with my shopping this year.
- The Gift of Small Indulgences Gift Cards the Gift of Choice This Festive Season
- Receiving a gift card tops the holiday wish list, according to a recent study of affluent consumers by Harrison Group for American Express Publishing. This festive season, give them what they want. Let them treat themselves to small indulgences they can enjoy at home or abroad.
- Charity Gifts - Eco-Friendly Gifts - Do-Good Gifts - Quick & Simple
- These presents pull double duty: Not only do they add a little light to whomever you give them to, but they help make the world a bit brighter too.
Give a Gift that also Gives Back
Articles on Giving Gifts that Give Back
- Gifts that give back
- You can find hundreds of gifts for your friends and family -- and help save the world. We've sought out eye-catching and adorable presents with proceeds that go to charity. Here's where to shop for a change.
- Charitable Gifts - Charity Christmas Gifts
- Charity is the new black. Forget the gifts that keep on giving; go for the gifts that give twice - with proceeds going to a worthy cause - with these ideas from Marie Claire.
- Gifts That Give Back | 50 Fabulous Gifts Under $50 | Life Soul : RealSimple.com
- Real Simple's 2008 holiday guide to gift-giving is extra-thrifty, including 20 presents under $15 and others that are literally priceless. Happy shopping!
- GREEN GIFT GUIDE: Gifts That Give Back
- A Green Design Blog, Sustainable Design Blog, Future-forward design for the world you inhabit - your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home.
- Gifts That Give Back > Shop with a Cause
- It is better to give than to receive, they say, so why not give twice? With these 10 beauty and fashion gifts that give back to those in need, not only will the special pals in your life jump for joy when receiving your divalicious present, your purchase will make a difference,
- NOVICA - News - Gifts that Give Back
- News, Gifts that Give Back. Shop for world treasures from NOVICA, in association with National Geographic. Discover extraordinary artisans and their handcrafted creations.
- ELLE News Blog: Gifts That Give Back
- I always have a million New Year's resolutions that I rarely end up sticking to. One goal I had that I've definitely fallen short of achieving? Giving back more. That's why I'm so pumped about the holiday beauty items below.
News on Gift Giving that Gives Back
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Wonderful idea - I love the computer idea. Happy Holidays *****
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I am adding "Whatever It Takes; Designs for Charity"
These designer handbags, wallets and celebrity mugs are a great value AND support charity. What a great deal!
5 stars and Merry Christmas!
LaurieBeth wrote...
Awesome lens! I added my Christmas Shopping with a Conscience lens--which will soon be renamed Online Shopping with a Conscience as it works all year round--to your plexo! Happy Holidays! <3
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