This holiday season, give a gift that makes a real difference with Greater Good Charities. Instead of traditional presents, choose to donate in honor of a loved one and help animals in need. Your contribution can provide essential food, supplies, and care to pets waiting for their forever homes, as well as, protecting and rehabilitating animals in the wild.
This gift-giving season, Choose Your Good:
- Choose Your Cause
- Choose the Amount
- Personalize your ECard and schedule delivery
Check out this list of 12 meaningful gift ideas for the animal lovers in your life that also provide quality food, supplies, resources, and hope to homeless pets and animal shelters and wildlife rescue groups nationwide!
Give the Gift of a Full Belly
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Overcrowded shelters across the U.S. need YOUR help to care for the many cats and dogs in need this holiday season. So many innocent pets wander the streets, begging for scraps and love. You can help shelters put a roof over their heads and nurture them until they can find loving families.
Your gift of just $25 can ship 500 of meals to hungry shelter pets!
Give Dogs Emergency Medical Treatment
Sweet little Cookie was attacked by a large dog, badly damaging her eye. Her previous owners ignored the injury and refused to pursue any medical care for Cookie for a week. They finally surrendered her to a local rescue. Cookie’s eyeball had to be removed, and now she needs your help.
Will you help cover the cost of her emergency surgery and ongoing care?
Give Cats Emergency Medical treatment
Ginger was discovered on the street, choking and in severe distress. A thin needle attached to a thread had somehow made its way into his throat. A veterinarian urgently removed the needle and thread, but the damage left him with difficulty eating. For several days, Ginger was fed with a syringe to help heal the cyst in his throat.
Will you rush a holiday gift today to help cover Ginger's recovery? Your gift can provide the medical care he needs and bring him one step closer to the loving home he deserves.
Give Care Packages for Cats
Did you know that pets who are healthy, happy, and well-fed stand a much better chance of being adopted? You can send food, vaccinations, bedding, and enrichment needs to cats in animal shelters this winter! A gift of just $25 sends a care package of 200 bowls of cat food, one warm bed, and the vaccination of one shelter cat.
Give a Care Package to a Dog in Need
As shelters across the country face low adoption rates and are overwhelmed with the amount of pets in their care, they often struggle to afford basic necessities. Due to the high cost of food, vaccinations, bedding, and enrichment needs, shelters often have to limit the number of dogs and puppies they can save and provide homes for, leaving many innocent dogs to fend for themselves.
You can help by sending a care package. Just $25 can help provide 200 bowls of dog food, two comfy beds, and vaccinations for two shelter dogs.
Fly Shelter Pets Home for the Holidays
You can help make this season brighter for animals in need and fly pets to their new home in time for the holidays. Animal shelters across the country are operating above capacity with more pets in their shelters than they can hold, leaving little hope for homeless pets.
Help us transport pets from under-resourced shelters to rescue organizations in parts of the country with stronger adoption rates. A holiday gift of only $40 can help transport one shelter pet this holiday season.
Help Save Manatees
Manatees are a critically endangered species. Each year, they are brought to rehabilitation facilities in Florida because they are starving, injured in boat strikes or fishing net entanglements, or plagued by toxic algae such as red tide.
This holiday season, Greater Good Charities is partnering with Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) to rebuild its facility after Hurricanes Helene and Milton flooded the aquarium. This destroyed the their essential life-support systems, which kept the water safe for the animals. We urgently need your support to rebuild so CMA can continue rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing manatees back into the wild.
Join us in protecting threatened species and vital ecosystems. Make a holiday gift today to help rebuild Clearwater Marine Aquarium and save manatees.
hive drive to save bees
Hurricanes Helene and Milton have wiped out plant forage and damaged beehives, threatening the starvation of billions of bees used to pollinate food crops across the country.
Greater Good Charities has already provided 58,000 gallons of syrup and nearly 62,000 pounds of pollen substitute to beekeepers in Florida, feeding more than 10.5 billion bees. We’ve also provided 21,000 pounds of sugar to North Carolina beekeepers to help feed their hives. But our work is far from finished. We need your help to deliver 3 more rounds of food to ensure bees can survive through the winter.
Donate today and help us reach our goal of $300,000 of aid for beehives in need. Thanks to a generous donor, your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $65,000!
Save Burned Jaguars This Holiday Season
When wildfires tore through Brazil's wetlands, endangered jaguars suffered from severe burns and smoke inhalation. Among these was Itapira. She had burns on all four paws, was severely dehydrated, and was too weak to survive on her own. After waiting a day without any sign of improvement, the decision was made to sedate her and perform a rescue.
Greater Good Charities is partnering with teams on the ground to provide lifesaving medical care to jaguars like Itapira who were injured during the fires. Make a holiday gift now to save their lives.
Help Save the Endangered Red Wolf
There are currently less than 20 individual red wolves living in the wild. Red wolves are dying along at an alarming rate due to vehicle strikes on US Highway 64 in eastern North Carolina. In the last 14 months alone, 5 endangered red wolves have been killed by vehicle strikes.
In partnership with the Center for Biological Diversity, we’re helping to build a wildlife crossing across US 64 to ensure a future for this rare and remarkable species. Will you help us make the world a safer place for the endangered red wolf? Donate now to make your holiday gift.
#Stream4Good
Greater Good Charities’ #Stream4Good empowers content creators, gamers, fitness enthusiasts, and streamers of all kinds to raise funds that make a difference for people, pets, and the planet. By joining #Stream4Good, you’re helping provide disaster relief, food, essential supplies, medical care, and so much more to those in need.
While live gaming is a popular way to stream, #Stream4Good is for anyone passionate about making an impact. Whether you love gaming, crafting, music, tabletop games, fitness, or just chatting, your stream can support our lifesaving mission. Each donation, big or small, moves us one step closer to a healthier, safer world.
Become an Amplifier
Greater Good Charities has directly helped over 6.1 MILLION pets. This impactful work only happens because of our amazing community of donors. We rely on our group of Amplifiers to sustain our mission to protect pets all year round through recurring gifts. Let your loved one know how special they are by honoring them with a gift that keeps on giving.
This gift-giving season, you don’t need to waste your hard-earned money on trinkets or random Amazon finds. You can do so much more. Give a gift that is meaningful and impactful for animals in need.
