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Each time you order with UncommonGoods, you can select a
non-profit organization from the ones on this page to receive a
$1 donation from us. At the end of the checkout process - after
your order is confirmed - a browser window will prompt you to
choose an organization to receive our contribution on your
behalf.
We’ve included in our
Better to Give Program a handful of non-profit
organizations in which we believe strongly and whose missions
dovetail with our company values.
Americares
As part of our commitment to the world around us, UncommonGoods
donates to AmeriCares. Due to devastation caused by the recent
7.0 earthquake in Haiti, UncommonGoods has increased our Better
to Give donation to $5 per order when you choose
Americares at checkout.
Americares has committed $5 million in relief aid and is
urgently requesting funds to support additional emergency relief
efforts.
Americares has provided more than $145 million worth of
medical and humanitarian aid to since 1984.
All contributions will go to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.To
learn more:
AmeriCares.
American Forests
American Forests is a world leader in planting trees for
environmental restoration, a pioneer in the science and practice
of urban forestry, and a primary communicator of the benefits of
trees and forests.
American Forests is the nation's oldest nonprofit citizens'
conservation organization and is proud of its historic roots in
the development of America's conservation movement. The
organization focuses on assisting communities in planning and
implementing tree and forest actions to restore and maintain
healthy ecosystems and communities. They also work with
community-based forestry partners in both urban and rural areas
to help them participate in national forest policy discussions.
American Forests seeks to broaden awareness of the
interdependence of communities and forests through our policy and
communication activities with local partners. For each dollar
donated from UncommonGoods to
American Forests, a tree will be planted.To learn more:
AmeriCan
Forests.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF)
Artisans and their works are a key part of UncommonGoods’
mission to celebrate individuality and creativity. Through Better
to Give, we are supporting
CERF, a non-profit organization that helps
craftspeople throughout the United States sustain craftsmaking as
a livelihood by providing immediate support to professional
craftspeople suffering career-threatening emergencies such as
natural disasters, diseases and other crises.
CERF was founded in 1985, when Carol Sedestrom
Ross, then president of American Craft Enterprises, ceramicist
Marilyn Dintenfass, and glassblower Josh Simpson decided they
wanted to tap into the inherent generosity that they had observed
within the craft community. It is common practice at craft fairs
for exhibitors to “pass the hat” for fellow
craftspeople who were dealing with emergency situations.
CERF was founded in an effort to formalize and
build upon this simple grassroots gesture. Since its founding,
CERF has helped hundreds of craftspeople from
across the country. To learn more:
Craft
Emergency Relief Fund.
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all
native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.
UncommonGoods endeavors to feature merchandise made without harm
to people or animals (for example, we do not sell leather
products). Defenders focuses its programs on what scientists
consider two of the most serious environmental threats to the
planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the
associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration
and destruction. Long known for leadership on endangered species
issues, Defenders of Wildlife also advocates new approaches to
wildlife conservation that will help keep species from becoming
endangered. Their programs encourage protection of entire
ecosystems and interconnected habitats while protecting predators
that serve as indicator species for ecosystem health. To learn
more:
Defenders
of Wildlife.
Comprehensive Development, Inc.
(CDI)
As a New York-based company, we also donate to a smaller, local
non-profit organization – Comprehensive Development, Inc.,
which supports underserved New York City public high school
students.
CDI works in partnership with Manhattan
Comprehensive Night and Day High School (MCNDHS) in New York
City.
CDI’s mission is to help the MCNDHS
student population graduate through a variety of programs
including tutoring, mentoring, legal and medical advice, job
placement, and homelessness prevention.
Most MCNDS students have already dropped out of high school at
least once. By choice, they are returning to school as older
students, still struggling to create a life. As such,
CDI’s approach is passionately personal.
Students are guided from the start with lots of individual
attention, and often develop deep bonds with
CDI counselors and volunteer tutors. These
students are motivated, but have real adult needs.
CDI responds in kind by easing life burdens. And
because students feel supported, they can then focus on the
business of learning.
Among other services,
CDI runs the largest school-based tutoring site
in New York with 150 volunteers tutor over 240 students in core
academic subjects, ESL and SAT prep. UncommonGoods CEO David
Bolotsky has served as a volunteer with CDI since 1990 and
UncommonGoods employs students from MCNDS. To learn more:
CDI.
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