SHARE YOUR HEART
Here’s your chance to give some love to a favorite charity by buying one of its cool products (with 100 percent of net proceeds supporting its mission).
—Nicola Bridges
For Your Best Friend
Dress up your pet in the cutest
Dog or Cat Bow Tie to support Best Friends Animal Society, which saves the lives of homeless pets across the country, creating nokill communities and sanctuaries for dogs, cats, rabbits, potbellied pigs, birds, horses and other animals. $12, shop.bestfriends.org
Need a reminder to look on the bright side? These “What’s
Good?” Notecards (designed in memory of the founder’s son Jack and his favorite saying) from Capability Ranch Special Needs Activities & Events Center, in Ramona, Calif., do the trick while supporting a good cause. $25 for 10 cards, capabilityranch.org
Celebrating Life
Love Not Lost is a national network of photographers that helps preserve memories by offering free photo sessions with loved ones facing a terminal illness. For a monthly donation of $30, with no duration requirement, you’ll get this Water Bottle and help capture and celebrate life. lovenotlost.org/swag
Grow Your Own
From mushrooms that sprout from the box to a self-cleaning aquaponics fish tank that fertilizes herbs growing in a tray on top, these Grow Kits aim to remind families and kids where their food comes from. When you purchase a kit, Back to the Roots donates another to your choice of elementary school. $20–$100, back totheroots.com
Get Inked
Your purchase of artist Dani Egna’s fashion-forward, temporary Inked by Dani Charitable Tats supports causes including the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation and the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Kenya. $1.50–$2 each, inkedby dani.com.
Water Matters
Show you care about the global water crisis by sporting a Water4 T-shirt (infant, youth or adult size). Water4 connects with communities in Africa and Peru to bring clean water drilling, sanitation practices and water health and hygiene education. $25, water4.org/shop
Help Is on the Way
Buy a Team Rubicon USA Pennant or
Patch and you’re supporting an organization that since 2013 has provided $19 million in volunteer labor. Founded in 2010, Team Rubicon has helped rebuild communities at more than 310 disaster sites in the U.S. and around the world. $5–$15, teamrubiconusa.org