Gifts That Give More™
GreaterGood.org's unique Gifts That Give More™ program allows 100% tax-deductible contributions to pass directly through to nonprofit causes. This program gives our growing community of donors a meaningful and direct opportunity to fund specific services for people, animals and causes in need.
Donations through this program are processed in kind by GreaterGood Network stores. Upon selection of any Gift That Gives More™ you will be linked in a new browser window to an associated secure store for processing of your donation and checkout. The GreaterGood Network includes: The Hunger Site store, The Breast Cancer Site store, The Child Health Site store, The Literacy Site store, The Rainforest Site store and The Animal Rescue Site store. You will receive a receipt from GreaterGood.org in the mail or via e-mail for tax purposes.
Help a Tuberculosis Patient HealA curable disease that kills millions in the developing world, tuberculosis offers a glaring example of global inequalities in access to health care. Drugs to fight tuberculosis (TB) have been in existence for 50 years, and deaths from TB are rare in rich countries--yet TB kills nearly 2 million people per year.$50 will provide testing and treatment for seven tuberculosis patients in Haiti or Rwanda.
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Help Build a School in NepalThe small country of Nepal boasts eight of the ten highest mountains in the world. But the very mountains that give Nepal its grandeur provide a challenge to building a sustainable infrastructure.Your gift of $35 or $170 will help Room to Read construct a four- to eight-room building to be used as a primary or secondary school.
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Help Rebuild from the Peru EarthquakeIn August 2007, a powerful earthquake hit southern Peru, causing hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries, and an untold amount of damage. Today, reconstruction efforts place a further burden on already-impoverished rural communities. $25 will help rebuild a primary or elementary school damaged or destroyed by the earthquake.
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High-Efficiency Stoves for Darfur RefugeesSince 2003, hundreds of thousands of African Sudanese have been killed in Darfur and another 2.2 million people--mostly women and children--are crowded into camps surrounded by a barren landscape. $20.00 will subsidize a Berkeley Darfur Stove for a family living in the Darfur refugee camps so that they don't have to venture into dangerous areas to gather wood.
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Hurricane Katrina Small Business Recovery Mercy Kit$60 will support Mercy Corps' Hurricane Katrina fund. The rebuilding of the U.S. Gulf Coast is underway--but small businesses that lost everything to Hurricane Katrina are slow to return, hampering the recovery of local economies. Mercy Corps knows that true recovery can't begin until shops and services are back in the neighborhoods that need them.
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Llamas for LimaGive children recovering from abuse or disease a new friend: a soft, cuddly llama doll to call their very own. The llamas are handmade by artisan groups in rural Peru, creating new opportunities for village sustainability. $20 pays Peruvian artisans to create three stuffed llama dolls to be given to three Peruvian children.
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Medical Care for Street Children in IndiaA growing population is causing unprecedented stress on the Indian social network: high levels of poverty, illiteracy, persistent malnutrition, trafficking in human beings, and a growing HIV/AIDS problem. All of these factors have contributed to India's population of 18 million street children. $10 will provide a year's worth of basic but vital medical care for a street child in India.
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Midwife Training in BurmaEastern Burma is an area of intense poverty, where 1% of pregnancies result in maternal death. Your $50 gift will provide a 10-day training course and birthing supplies to a Burmese traditional birth attendant. $400 provides three months of classroom and practical training for maternal heath workers. After their training, the health workers return to Eastern Burma to work in village clinics and train traditional birth attendants who work in even more remote areas.
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Midwives for Women in ChildbirthDying in childbirth is a rare and shocking event in Western countries, but an all-too-common occurrence in many parts of the world. Access to a trained birth assistant improves the chances of a safe labor and delivery, yet many areas of rural India and Africa are without. $50 will provide ten mothers access to a midwife, helping ten babies to be born safely.
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One Week's Care for a Rescued Chimpanzee$48.00 provides a week's care--food, medicine, and any necessary rehabilitation--for a rescued chimpanzee being cared for at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Ugandan waters of eastern Africa's massive Lake Victoria. In addition to giving rescued chimpanzees a safe home and ensuring their welfare, the Sanctuary provides a low-human impact environment on Ngamba Island, a high-quality educational experience for visitors, and benefits the island's local communities.
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Pay a Health Worker's SalaryIn sub-Saharan Africa, a mere 3% of the world's health workers struggle to combat 24% of the global disease burden, while the health of the Haitian people ranks as the worst in the Western Hemisphere. $62.50 funds the monthly salary for a trained health worker to provide community-based care through Partners in Health.
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Pay a Teacher's Salary in AfghanistanIn remote regions of rural Afghanistan, if teachers' salaries are paid at all, they are commonly months or years in arrears. To support their families, teachers are forced to change to jobs that pay--leaving their classrooms empty. Your contribution of $40.00 covers a teacher's salary for one month, a gift which will have a lasting impact on the lives of children and their communities.
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