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