This is a beautiful blend in my mind: Doing good, Travel, and Wine. ONE HOPE Wines is a wine company that gives a portion of every purchase to charity. It varies among the wines you choose, but donations average about 10% to 15%, sometimes as much as 50% (and the company additionally donates 50% of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘charity’
17 Dec
Giving Miles
This time of year, are you turning your pockets inside out to find nothing but lint? Wondering if you can stick an I.O.U. in a stocking that’s hung by the chimney with care? Believe me, I get it. I’m flipping sofa cushions looking for spare change. And we’re all so busy around the holidays that [...]
12 Dec
Wide Awake
Pretty much anybody with a computer can set up a website, and while once upon a time you had to be a certified non-profit [501(c)(3)] organization to append your web domain with .org, now anyone can be a dot.org and fool us in to thinking they are a charity. I like to think that most [...]
19 Jul
Don’t Tread on Me
Soles4Souls is a charity putting shoes on the feet of needy kids and aduts across America and farther afield. They’re happy to take the donation of your new or gently used shoes and will give them to folks without shoes in disaster regions and particularly oppressed or financially struggling zones (from poverty pockets of New [...]
25 Jun
Weird Day
With the untimely deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, today is a day to perhaps take a look at the things in your life for which you are grateful. The president and first lady spent part of today filling backpacks with toys and fun gear for children of military personnel–part of their “Summer of [...]
