Applying for college is a road fraught with challenges.  There’s the campus tours, the standardized tests,  and the actual applications with the dreaded essay.  For some hard working students they arrive at that part of the journey only to find the road impassable due to obstacles in their lives which only make the process more [...]

Sometimes the story told in a movie is so compelling we feel we must take action in our own lives in response.  This is one of the incredible powers that movies have to inspire and motivate us. The movie Good Deeds by Tyler Perry highlights the power that actions we do for others have in [...]

We here at Gift Card Giver know how even a penny leftover on a gift card can make a big impact. Micro-financing is also a testament to how a little can do so much. HOPE International is an organization that helps people struggling with both spiritual and physical poverty through small loans that give them [...]

Recently on the Gift Card Giver you may have noticed that we have been featuring, stories of people and organizations that have donated gift cards to us.  We also recently featured a post that demonstrated how much more we could be doing with all the unused gift card money floating around in people’s wallets and purses. The [...]

It’s something so horrific that we often can’t bring ourselves to think about it, but it nonetheless is a fact that children as young as 12 years old are ensnared in the pornography and prostitution industry right here in the United States.  HOPE House in Asheville, NC is a shelter for victims of this awful [...]

Sometimes cards arrive in our box anonymously with no return address, sometimes envelopes arrive stuffed full of cards collected at an event or party, other times they arrive with a note of encouragement or a story about a cause that the donor wants us to give back to. Recently, an envelope arrived with a note [...]