Happy New Year



Winter in the Park by Karin Leff

Citymeals-on-Wheels

As always, CardsThatGive.org will post a selection of new cards in July.  Please visit our site again then.  We will include some interesting new non-profits and introduce other new features to help you choose holiday greetings for your family or your business.

Holiday Tribute Card
Children's Hospital Boston

Thank you to the hundreds of thousands of people who chose to buy their holiday cards from non-profit organizations this year. Your generosity has helped medical research, needy children, the environment, the arts, homeless animals, and countless other good causes.

Happy New Year!

Anne

New Holiday Card Sales

Trio of Ornaments by John McDonald
Museum of Modern Art

New holiday card sales: the Museum of Modern Art (50-75% off); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (50% off); the Museum of New Mexico Foundation (35% off), and the Museum of International Folk Art (35-48% off).

Sleigh Ride Home by Lora Verner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Anne

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cards on Sale

Skyline from Central Park by Adolf Dehn
Metropolitan Museum of Art

All Metropolitan Museum of Art holiday cards are now 50% off.  Stock up for next year? 

Madonna and Child by Fra Angelico
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anne

New eCards from Love 146

Season of Miracles eCard

Love146 offers handmade holiday cards and holiday eCards to help support its work to end child sex slavery and exploitation.  Its programs throughout the world include prevention services, aftercare programs, research, and advocacy in support of abolition.
 

Chains Shall Break eCard

Each eCard represents a $25 donation to Love146.

One of Love 146's aftercare programs is the Round Home, a residential facility in the Philippines that provides holistic care for survivors of child sexual exploitation and trafficking. 

For each $20 donation, Love146 will send ten holiday cards, each hand-drawn by the one of the girls in the Round Home.  The income that the girls receive from the card project helps support themselves and their families.

Survivors making cards at the Round Home.

Anne

eCards That Support Music Education

For each of these free animated holiday eCards you send, Fidelity Investments' FutureStage program will donate $1 to buy new musical instruments for public schools across the country. 

The cards feature works performed by the Boston Pops, Houston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.

FutureStage is a community arts education program of Fidelity Investments that helps "prepare and inspire underserved middle and high school students for future stages in life through in-school arts." 

As CardsThatGive.org only includes 501(c)3 nonprofits, we can't add FutureStage to our eCard section.  But it's a good cause anyway. 

Anne

Kipepeo Cards, Kenya

Based in Kenya's largest slum, Kipepeo Designs is a remarkable project that is transforming the lives of the women who work there.  The women create handmade card stock from shredded paper that they collect from offices around Nairobi, then use their artistic talents to design handsome greeting cards.

Their cards may include beads, cow bone ornaments, paint, and decorative wire designs.  For some designs a sprinkle of glitter is added during the paper-making. 

Because of the income and training Kipepeo provides, the women who work there are able to support their families.

Making paper at Kipepeo
(Tribes & Nations, Australia)

In the U.S., the cards are sold at Karibu Kenya, a fair trade shop in San Francisco.



Anne

Tribute Cards as Holiday Gifts

Feeding America

Holiday tribute cards are gifts that reflect the true spirit of the season.  Your tribute donation can help fund tree-plantings, programs for cancer patients, textbooks for a school in Africa, care for shelter animals, supplies for food pantries, and more.

Feeding America and Half the Sky are among the organizations on our site that offer tribute cards.

Please visit our holiday tribute card section.

Half the Sky

Anne



America's VetDogs

We like cards that support our troops.  Sales of America's VetDogs' holiday card help provide assistance dogs and training to disabled veterans and active servicemembers. 

64% of the card price goes to help provide guide dogs for veterans who are blind, service dogs for those with disabilities other than blindness, physical therapy dogs to work with amputees in military and VA hospitals, and combat stress relief dogs to be deployed overseas with combat stress control teams.

VetDogs' services are free to veterans, the military, and active duty personnel.

Anne

Prostate Cancer Foundation

Sending holiday cards from the Prostate Cancer Foundation helps fund research to find better treatments and a cure. Jean Fogelberg, wife of the late singer Dan Fogelberg, created their two designs this year.  PCF also sells matching postage stamps. 

All card orders are sent the next business day.  Use the code "2010holiday" at checkout to receive free shipping.

Prostate cancer affects one in six men, and PCF is "the leading philanthropic organization funding and accelerating prostate cancer research globally."

Anne

Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS




Snowflakes by Dana Mardaga
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS

On World AIDS Day, please consider purchasing holiday cards from Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. 

Since 1988 the American theater community (including classical, opera, jazz, and dance performing arts communities) has contributed more than $195 million via BC/EFA for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.

Earlier this year BC/EFA also contributed $100,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in the name of the Broadway community to assist in the Haitian relief efforts. 

Holiday tribute cards ($15) are available too.

Wishing and Hoping (1930's)
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS

Anne

spcaLA

spcaLA has two holiday card designs this year, and offers free shipping if you spend more than $25.  (Enter code 1257873329 at checkout.) 

Card sales help fund the shelter's programs and services, including cruelty investigation, a disaster response team, humane education, and a variety of shelter services.

I love their monthly Paws to Read program, where children practice reading to therapy dogs in a relaxed setting at a local library. The dogs are appreciative and interested, and completely unfazed by occasional mispronounced words. 

Anne





 

Faces of Siberia

Faces of Siberia helps improve the lives of children in orphanages in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia.  Sales of their holiday cards and gift tags fund winter camps, educational workshops and field trips, and birthday celebrations.

Their Orphan Card Shop also includes cards featuring images of of the Ekaterinburg region that were donated by Russian photographer Aleksej Slepukhin.

Check Faces of Siberia's Facebook page for their recent activities. 

Anne

American Red Cross

The American Red Cross is offering two vintage card images this year.  A Junior Red Cross member painted the skier in the 1940s to hang in a military hospital.

The Lighting the Way image by Anna Milo Upjohn is a Junior Red Cross fundraising poster from 1923.   

The American Red Cross's work includes helping in emergencies and disasters here and abroad, providing services to military families, aiding the needy, supplying blood and blood products, and teaching people about health and safety.

Anne

New Tribute Cards: North Texas Food Bank

The North Texas Food Bank's pantries distribute food to more than 50,000 families each month and on-site meal programs serve 435,000 meals and snacks.  Its $6 tribute cards feature a swirl of snowflakes made of plates, spoons, and forks. 

One of the NTFB's programs is Food 4 Kids.  Children identified by school personnel as being at risk of hunger receive approximately four pounds of food in their backpacks each Friday. On Monday, children return the empty backpacks and they are refilled for the next Friday. In the 2009-2010 school year, the NTFB provided 278,252 backpacks.

The card cost goes down to $4.50 each if you buy 50.

Anne

New Charity: Amani Children's Home, Tanzania

The Amani Children's Home provides meals, education, counseling, and medical care for street children and AIDS orphans at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.  For every $12 pack of cards sold, Amani receives $9.36. 

Proceeds from card sales pay for school fees, textbooks, and school lunches.  A four-minute video about Amani is here.



Anne

New Tribute Cards: Feed More

Feed More's $5 tribute cards benefit the Central Virginia Food Bank and Meals on Wheels Serving Central Virginia. 

The Central Virginia Food Bank distributes more than 12 million pounds of donated food and grocery products each year to children, families, and frail adults in need throughout Central Virginia. 

Last year, Meals on Wheels Serving Central Virginia delivered more than 300,000 meals, customized to a variety of health needs, to the homes of eligible people living on their own.

Anne

New Tribute Card: Children's Hospital Boston

We just added the Children's Hospital Boston's tribute cards.  Each card represents a donation of at least $5 and reads, “In the spirit of the holiday season [your name] has made a gift in your honor to Children’s Hospital Boston.” 

The hospital will send the cards for you if you like.

Anne



New Holiday Tribute Card: Lambi Fund of Haiti

Our newest holiday tribute card is from the Lambi Fund of Haiti.  Founded jointly in 1994 by Haitians and U.S. residents, Lambi has earned 4 stars from Charity Navigator for its efficient use of funds.

After making a contribution, such as $10 for seeds or $25 for fishing nets, donors are invited to download and print a donation certificate or one of the holiday cards above.

Anne

New Half the Sky Card

Jumping for Joy by Hu Yong Yi
Half the Sky International

Half the Sky provides love and hope for children living in Chinese orphanages.  Its new card celebrates 2011, the Year of the Rabbit. 

Half the Sky's programs include:

Baby Sisters Infant Nurture Program — Employing, training, and supervising local women to work as full-time nannies, providing orphaned babies the stimulation, bonding, and affection that are essential to a healthy start.

Little Sisters Preschool Program — Training teachers from the local community in HTS's innovative curriculum, designed to give young children the self-confidence, basic skills, and love of learning that will help them succeed in primary school.

Big Sisters Program — Encouraging and inspiring older children by giving them individualized learning opportunities, according to their own interests, talents, and aspirations.

Family Village Program — Providing permanent, loving families for children whose medical and developmental challenges preclude them from entering government adoption programs.

China Care Program — Providing specialized 24-hour medical treatment and nurturing after-care for medically fragile orphaned infants.

The cards cost $25 for 12 and contain a greeting in English and Chinese.

Anne

Emancipation Network's Handmade Cards

The Emancipation Network has just received a new shipment of handmade cards from Nepal; the cards are crafted of soft handmade paper with accents of skeleton leaves and a sequin or two.  

They come in a set of eight for $12, with three designs in the set: a gold star, a red crown, and a green tree.    

The Emancipation Network fights human trafficking and modern day slavery around the world.  Made by Survivors, the  nonprofit's handicrafts program, provides an economic alternative to slavery and exploitation for women and youth at high risk for being trafficked. 

Anne

New Charity: Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA

We welcome another new nonprofit to our site: Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA.  They offer seven cards designed by patients, as well as a polar bear image by wildlife photographer Howard Ruby and a Barbie design created by Mattel.

Polar Bears by Howard Ruby
Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA



Candy Canes by Kaitlin Tsu, age 14 
Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA



Proceeds from card sales benefit the Child Life/Child Development Program, whose specialists "work with young patients at bedside to assist creative expression and ease fear and anxiety during lengthy hospitalizations."

The cards cost $20 per box; $11 of that amount is tax deductible.

Anne

New Tribute Card - Utah Food Bank

The Utah Food Bank distributed 31 million pounds of food to the hungry last year.  You can support the Food Bank by sending its holiday tribute cards.

The Food Bank's programs include providing hundreds of thousands of hot meals for needy children in after-school programs, as well as boxes of emergency food supplies for homebound seniors.  One in ten Utah residents -- and one in eight Utah children -- lives in poverty.

Each card represents a $10 donation; the Food Bank will mail the cards for you if you like.

Anne

New Holiday Tribute Card: Child Advocacy Center



Holiday Tribute Card
Child Advocacy Center

 Our newest holiday tribute card benefits the Child Advocacy Center for abused children in Mobile, Alabama.

The Center provides a wide range of free services in one central location to more than 3,500 sexually and/or severely physically abused children and their non-offending family members, as well as educational and training programs in child abuse awareness and prevention.

Cards are $10 each if you order five or more.

Anne

New Charity: For the Troops



Patriotic Snowflakes
For the Troops



Our newest charity: For the Troops, a nonprofit that sends care packages to front line troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since 2006 they have shipped more than 20,000 boxes of basic necessities.



The boxes include items such as snacks, DVDs, CDs, batteries, personal care items, and magazines, as well as letters of appreciation from children and adults.



Leaves and Berries
For the Troops



If you begin your CardsDirect card order on this CardsDirect page, 20% of the card price will go to For the Troops.



The back of the card contains the CardsDirect and For the Troops logos and states, "20% of the sale of this card supports 'For the Troops' to send 'We Care' packages to our front line troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Please visit www.FortheTroops.org for information."

Anne

Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center

Holly Bird by Naylea Jacobo, age 9
Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center

Each year, art teachers around Durham, North Carolina challenge their students to create the perfect holiday card for Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center.  This year, card sponsors chose four designs from the hundreds submitted; the winning designs are available now.

Because sponsors underwrite card production costs, the entire card price goes to support pediatric programs at the hospital.   Since the holiday card project began 30 years ago, the cards have raised more than $1.4 million for children at Duke.

Winter Town by Kimberly Barbosa, age 10
Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center

Anne