The Better Present Pledge

Sea
Sea Posts: 3,144
edited December 2007 in The Porch
The "Better Present for a Better Future" campaign, founded by Conservation International (CI), Heifer International (HI), and Share Our Strength (SOS), is designed to inspire a new way to think about holiday giving. By taking the "Better Present Pledge," you agree to give at least one gift to a nonprofit in honor of a friend or family member in lieu of a material present this holiday season.

Visit http://www.pearljam.com/activism/ for more info as well as a list of causes near and dear to the band.
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  • tkepearljamn
    tkepearljamn Posts: 586
    Deal!
    07-02-98, 10-11-00, 04-22-03, 04-23-03, 06-09-03, 06-10-03, 06-18-03, 06-21-03, 06-22-03, 10-02-04, 10-03-04, 10-05-04, 05-16-06, 05-17-06, 05-22-06, 06-24-06, 06-29-06
  • bmarsh10
    bmarsh10 Posts: 168
    Sounds like a good Idea to me, I'm In!!
  • einatshaul
    einatshaul Posts: 2,219
    Those ARE better presents.
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  • cropdustress
    cropdustress Posts: 4,339
    This is pretty awesome.
    "I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened"
  • 5882300
    5882300 Posts: 813
    I am going to donate to The Human Fund in honor of my brother in law.
  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    every year around this time i go down to state street and buy as many cheeseburgers from mcdonalds and hand them out to the homeless people asking for change.

    its not the best thing, but at least i know they'll have some food in their bellies.
  • eddievedder1977
    eddievedder1977 Posts: 549
    5882300 wrote:
    I am going to donate to The Human Fund in honor of my brother in law.

    ;) you took what I was going to say. Hilarious.

    Anyways, I tried talking my entire family into doing this for real, instead of exchanging gifts with each other, but they didn't go for it, again, for the 5th yr in a row.
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    sweet adeline wrote:
    every year around this time i go down to state street and buy as many cheeseburgers from mcdonalds and hand them out to the homeless people asking for change.

    its not the best thing, but at least i know they'll have some food in their bellies.
    are you trying to poison them?
    should give them PROPER food! (and mcdonald doesn't hold your stomach for long)
  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    Planning on doing this very thing..all the people we know have so much stuff - they have more than enough things, so hubby and I were going to donate on their behalf instead of giving them gifts...Good for PJ to bring it to the fore! Thanks for the reminder and the kick in the pants we needed to actually get going on it!
    be philanthropic
  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    I actually sent an email to Invisible Children in an attempt to donate in my brothers' name, as a gift. I never recieved any response so I decided to buy 4 hoodies and show off their cause on me, my wife, and my two kids. I hope it is ok to leave this link here: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php
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  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    Done.

    Does it matter that the gift is going to the nonprofit organisation that I work for?
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    I don't think it matters what charity you give to, as long as you give.
  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    I think it's a wonderful idea!

    We're not exchanging presents this year, even with our four children with the exception of a few presents for our youngest daughter who is five.

    The oldest three are fine with it because of the financial situation we are in and also how badly the economy is here in Michigan... but they will get a few presents from other members of the family.

    They have different concepts of giving now and the meaning of Christmas.

    But thanks for that site - I'll pass that around! :)
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Pegasus wrote:
    are you trying to poison them?
    should give them PROPER food! (and mcdonald doesn't hold your stomach for long)

    better than no food ;p
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,322
    I'm in! :)
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    I BrisK I wrote:
    better than no food ;p
    yeah, but Mcdonald is overpriced for what it actually is anyway, so you could provide more and better food for the same price..

    on the main topic.. well, can't use the links provided because they're all americans (most of my gifts are to the family and they're all french) but I have considered it this year anyway..need to find the right cause for teh right person :)
  • Lost_Clay
    Lost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    I donate to the salvation army everytime i see them at the mall or whatnot as a tribute to something my father said years ago
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    That non-for-profit award winning literacy business looks great. I'd buy into that if buying a C.S. Lewis book for my niece wasn't an equal act of giving. As a matter of fact, thank you, Jeff, for choosing this organization to support. I think I'll send my niece a copy of the book that we started a few summer's ago (when I was loving her back to health), yet never finished reading aloud together. I'm sure that will be very dear to her heart and remind her of laughing each other to sleep.

    Love to you. Thanks.
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,092
    i like to take sweaters, coats any warm clothing and look for the imigrants that are waiting on the street corners and hand them out to them ,it feels good :D
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Foxy Mop
    Foxy Mop Posts: 2,823
    As part of my gift, I received a donation in my name to help a school girl in Africa from my Message Pit Secret Santa exchange this month! What a cool gift!

    I'll be doing the same... :)
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