Thursday, December 24, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist - A Most Meaningful Gift Idea - NYTimes.com

Donate a composting toilet for Christmas! h/t Elizabeth KR.

Op-Ed Columnist - A Most Meaningful Gift Idea - NYTimes.com:

After all, nothing says “happy holidays” like donating in Aunt Tilda’s name to build a composting toilet in Haiti or to deworm kids in Kenya. And a deworming pill will never be regifted!

...In this column, I’m putting aside the larger, well-known aid organizations like CARE, Save the Children, Mercy Corps and Heifer International. They all do fabulous work, but today I want to bring to show-and-tell some organizations laboring in obscurity. These groups are also a reminder that the gap in savvy, creativity and effectiveness between the business world and the nonprofit sector is narrowing — in some cases vanishing.

So here’s my quirky holiday list of nifty, unknown charities: (click here)


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