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 

Hadley School for the Blind

Snowman by Kay Moffitt
Hadley School for the Blind

The Hadley School for the Blind's holiday card says "Wishing you peace, happiness and the spirit of the season" in braille and print, and the delicate snowman image is embossed so the visually impaired can appreciate it. 

Card purchases help Hadley provide long-distance education to more than 10,000 blind and visually impaired students each year.

Anne

Puppies Behind Bars

Holiday Card Version 11
Puppies Behind Bars

Puppies Behind Bars trains inmates to raise puppies to become service dogs for the disabled and explosive detection canines for law enforcement. 

Their two-year-old Dog Tags program provides psychiatric service dogs to help war veterans who are battling post-traumatic stress disorder.  The dogs obey 87 different commands, and can rouse a soldier from a flashback, dial 911 on a phone, and sense an impending panic attack.  By next month they will have paired 34 dogs with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.  

They offer 13 card designs; it's a great cause.

Anne

Holiday Card Version 12
Puppies Behind Bars

Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger



Boston Lights by Mark Hunt
Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger

Project Bread's new cards are up.  This nonprofit funds more than 400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and food banks throughout Massachusetts. It also runs the only statewide hunger hotline, offers school breakfast programs, and provides meals for children in summer when school is out. 

The back of each card says, "Project Bread's mission is to alleviate, prevent, and ultimately end hunger in Massachusetts. Proceeds from Project Bread holiday cards help feed hungry children and families in our neighborhoods and hometowns."



Anne

Quiet Harbor by Bob Monahan
Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger

New York Public Library Cards

Lion (1950's) by Robert Quackenbush
New York Public Library

The New York Public Library has chosen a wonderful 1950's image for its new holiday card -- a woodcut by artist/author Robert Quackenbush of Fortitude, one of the library's marble lions, with its traditional holiday wreath amid a gentle snowfall. 

A package of twelve cards costs $11.95.  The library doesn't offer imprinting, but most printers and copy shops can personalize cards.

Anne

back of card

New Charity - Citymeals-on-Wheels

Another new addition to CardsThatGive: Citymeals-on-Wheels.  Citymeals provides 2.1 million meals each year, and each of their cards represents a donation of a holiday meal delivered to a homebound elderly New Yorker. 

Winter in the Park by Karin Leff
Citymeals-on-Wheels

Citymeals is one of the largest meals on wheels programs in the U.S.  It serves more than 17,000 needy seniors each year and coordinates thousands of volunteers to deliver the meals and visit with the frail recipients.

Five Citymeals cards cost $32; imprinting is available for orders of 100 or more.  Six holiday card designs are available, or you can choose a vellum insert to use with your own cards. 

Holiday tribute cards (cards representing small donations) are especially popular with businesses.  To see more of these greetings, please visit our Tribute Card section. 

Anne