Chattanooga Times Free Press

SHARE YOUR HEART

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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

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