Give a Gift in Honor of Someone - Alternative Gifts International

Gifts Inspiring Change.
Alternative Gifts International is a non-profit organization that inspires support for humanitarian and environmental causes. We offer donors the option to designate charitable gifts through carefully selected agencies in the name of their relatives, friends and associates.

1. Choose one (or several) gifts from the
    projects featured in our catalog.

2. Select a gift card for your honoree &
    tell us what you want it to say. (Don't
    forget to provide their address!)

3. AGI will mail the card to your honoree
    with an insert describing your gift.

4. You will receive a receipt indicating the
    tax-deductible portion.

US Military Officer serving in Afghanistan donates through AGI!

Emails like this cause us to pause and think about the unique spirit of the giver. Jane C is serving on the front line in Afghanistan. She has experienced and seen first-hand that which destroys us, and therefore knows what needs to change. She has the freedom to spend her hard earned money on whatever she wants, but chooses, instead, to support causes that will “make the world a better place.”

Jane C writes…

Lea,

My guess is that my email will be unlike any that you receive. I'm on active duty currently stationed in Afghanistan.

I learned about Alternative Gifts International in an article on the Davidson College web site. I'm a 1987 Davidson grad, and I figured if the Chaplain's office have had a 16-year relationship with your organization -- it was more than... (read more)

Select an alternative gift from life-sustaining, worldwide projects to honor family & friends:

Teaching Youth to Care About Others: Global
We live in a world economy based primarily on wealth and materialistic need, fueled by planned obsolescence. At the same time most world leaders recognize a need for the intangibles—things that can’t be advertised, bought or sold...

Feeding Hungry Homeless: USA & Global
Poverty is more than not having money; it is the constant feeling of being hungry. It is the harsh reality that there is no home to go to and the lack of respect from other individuals. It is fear, desperation, and the sense of worthlessness...

Building Rural Medical Clinics: Bolivia
94% of Bolivia’s rural poor live on less than $1 a day, mostly from subsistence agriculture, and buying and reselling produce or items in open markets...

Changing Trash to Cash: Haiti
The toxic smoke causes respiratory ailments and increased environmental problems. In a country where 80% of its citizens live in poverty, they are literally burning potential income.

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Nearly one year ago, bombs were falling on Gaza.

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