Gift It Up! is back -- in JP and online!
Dear friends,
It's that time of the year again, when I put in a plug to you all for Conscious Consuming's alternative gift fair, Gift it Up! Please visit our website at http://www.giftitup.org and consider making a donation in a loved one's name.
According to the Consumer's Union, children in our country are sent 30,000 TV ads per year to get their parents to buy them stuff. And yet you know that there also are millions of children around the world who wish every day they had enough food or a safe place to sleep. American's produce 4-5 pounds of trash per person, per day, while children in many parts of the world labor to make us these cheap, "throwaway" goods. Instead of the newest incarnation of something you probably already have, won't you consider giving a gift to change the world?
If you live in the Boston area, come to Gift it Up! Conscious Consuming gathers 14 non-profits on Saturday, December 1, at the River of Life Church in Jamaica Plain. "Shoppers" will get to talk with representatives from each of the nonprofits, browse their programs, choose a gift to fit any budget, and receive a Gift it Up! card announcing the gift. The event is to be held:
Saturday, December 1
12noon - 4pm
River of Life Church
440 Center Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
If you are unable to attend the fair, you can visit the Gift it Up! website at www.giftitup.org to learn more about it, to see the list of participating non-profits, and to purchase gifts securely on line.
Because Conscious Consuming is an all-volunteer non-profit, our PR is grassroots. If you could please send your contacts something as simple as the following, we'd be much obliged!
Thanks! Enjoy the peace and good will of the holiday season,
It's that time of the year again, when I put in a plug to you all for Conscious Consuming's alternative gift fair, Gift it Up! Please visit our website at http://www.giftitup.org and consider making a donation in a loved one's name.
According to the Consumer's Union, children in our country are sent 30,000 TV ads per year to get their parents to buy them stuff. And yet you know that there also are millions of children around the world who wish every day they had enough food or a safe place to sleep. American's produce 4-5 pounds of trash per person, per day, while children in many parts of the world labor to make us these cheap, "throwaway" goods. Instead of the newest incarnation of something you probably already have, won't you consider giving a gift to change the world?
If you live in the Boston area, come to Gift it Up! Conscious Consuming gathers 14 non-profits on Saturday, December 1, at the River of Life Church in Jamaica Plain. "Shoppers" will get to talk with representatives from each of the nonprofits, browse their programs, choose a gift to fit any budget, and receive a Gift it Up! card announcing the gift. The event is to be held:
Saturday, December 1
12noon - 4pm
River of Life Church
440 Center Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
If you are unable to attend the fair, you can visit the Gift it Up! website at www.giftitup.org to learn more about it, to see the list of participating non-profits, and to purchase gifts securely on line.
Because Conscious Consuming is an all-volunteer non-profit, our PR is grassroots. If you could please send your contacts something as simple as the following, we'd be much obliged!
Thanks! Enjoy the peace and good will of the holiday season,
Cindy
posted by Cindy @ 7:05 PM
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