Best Valentine's Day and Mother's Day Gifts for Mom: All Price Ranges

Inexpensive, Creative Gifts for Mom on Valentine's Day or Mother's Day
Does Mother's Day find you wondering what gifts your mother like most? You're in good company. Many people find It is easier to grab the usual bouquet of flowers or box of chocolates than to shop around and find that special gift for mom.
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Free Ways to Help Haiti Earthquake 2010 Survivors

Free Ways to Help Haitian Earthquake 2010 Survivors
If you are like me, you hear about a natural disaster, like Earthquake 2010 in Haiti and want to help. But money is tight and while you know Haitians need help, your bills must still be paid. Did you know that there are free ways to help in Haiti?
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Haiti Earthquake 2010:St.Patrick's Parish Twins with St. Simon and Jude Parish in Haiti

Haitian Earthquake 2010: St. Patrick's Church Twins with St. Simon and St. Jude Parish in Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti; January 12, 2010: a earthquake, magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale has left a trail of devastation. St. Patrick's Church, Grand Haven, MI has been twinning with St. Simon and Jude in Haiti for over 10 years now.
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Best Gifts for Senior Citizens, Homebound and Elderly

Holiday Gift Giving Guide: Best Gifts for Senior Citizens
Senior citizens and elderly people can be the most difficult people to shop for during the holidays. Selecting appropriate gifts for seniors means being mindful of certain restrictions and limitations, so that the gift that you give can be enjoyed.
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Best Gifts for Yoga and Pilates Enthusiasts

Best Reasonably Priced Gifts for Yoga and Pilates Enthusiasts
Hobbies, especially sport hobbies can be expensive. With the focus on inner body strenght, yoga requires less equipment than most sports and fitness regimes. Here are inexpensive gifts for the yoga or pilates enthusiast on your list.
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Best Food and Pantry Donation Items for Holiday Baskets and Food Drives

Best Items to Donate to Thanksgiving and Christmas Canned Goods and Food Drives
Tis the season for giving and my favorite type of giving is food, grocery and personal hygiene donations for food banks and homeless shelters. Here's a list of the canned goods and food donations to give this holiday season. Read more...

Fair Trade Coffee: Higher Grounds

Jesus said, 'pay the worker the wage he is due. Do not cheat him out of his fair wage.' Every time I enjoy a cup of coffee lately, I feel a pricking of conscience. Is the coffee that I am enjoying grown under green conditions? Is it renewing or stripping the land? And most importantly, are the coffee plantation harvesters earning a fair wage? Are workers families thriving? Or as is more common, are the workers putting blood, sweat and tears into a job that does not sustain their families? Higher Grounds Coffee Company is a fair trade, shade-grown organic coffee that I drink and feel good about drinking. Read more...

Fair Indigo: Sustainable, Renewable Resources and Fair Trade

Green, Sustainable, Fair Trade Clothing, Fabrics, Toys and Accessories
Fair Indigo makes hand-knitted garments, accessories and toys from bamboo fabric, a totally sustainable fiber. Fair Indigo is a fair trade employer which pays workers a living wage and reasonable working conditions.
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Lenten Almsgiving Activity

Alms-Giving Activity for Lent
School, family, home-school or CCD activity to raise awareness and sensitivity to world hunger and poverty. Almsgiving and fundraiser to promote social justice and solidarity with the world church. Catholics focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving during the penitential season of lent. Spiritual preparation for Easter. Corporal Works of Mercy.
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Lenten and Ash Wednesday Almsgiving Activities

Lenten and Easter Activity: Fasting, Almsgiving, Prayer
Use this lenten almsgiving service project to practice spiritual exercises of fasting and alms-giving. Focus on Social Justice, World Church, missions and prayer. Lesson plans include social studies and math extensions; multiplication, division, counting, sorting, grouping and story problems. Great education for all children. Use for CCD, religious education, classroom service project, homeschool, scout troop, 4H group and more!
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