Giving Stories

LiNK | Liberty in North Korea

7.18.10
LiNK is a non-profit, non-partisan organization aiming to educate, protect, advocate, provide, and empower the North Korean people so that one day they will be able to live in true freedom. LiNK shares the stories of North Korean citizens and refugees through creative media and awareness tours, educating individuals around the world about the humanitarian crisis currently taking place in North Korea.  They advocate on behalf of the North Korean people, work with other NGOs and governments, and provide assistance to North Korean refugees as they attempt to build new lives in foreign countries.
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LiNK’s work focuses on awareness through mobilizing the grassroots and telling their stories of hope and survival.  To elevate the expenses of their awareness tour and financially aid their resettled refugees, we were able to send Wal-Mart and fast food gift cards to the wonderful men and women at LiNK.  If you are interested in ways you could join the LiNK movement, here is a list of ways you can get involved.

Give for Good Book Release!

7.13.10

Are you in need of a new book to jazz up your coffee table?  How about a memorable gift for a friend?  Gift Card Giver is here to help.  We are excited to announce that the Give For Good: The Story of GiftCardGiver.com book is now here!

This forty page hardcover book tells the story of Gift Card Giver, our mission, our goals, and some of our most touching giving stories.  With gripping full color images and a great message, this is the perfect way to support a wonderful idea and keep your coffee table looking up-to-date.

The Give For Good book is now available for sale in our online store. For those looking to donate to our cause directly, we will give a free book and our new Give for Good t-shirt to anyone who makes a cash donation of $100 or more.  Only you can help us write the Gift Card Giver story – one book at a time.

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Make a $100 and get a book and a Give for Good T-shirt!

*Just note which size t-shirt you would like to receive as you’re making your donation, and we’d love to get it to you!

GodParents Youth Organization

7.10.10
The mission of the Godparents Youth Organization is to provide a unique learning experience for urban youth through various travel opportunities, using an integrated approach of both personal experience and community support.
Through “Men-Touring,” the students get the opportunity to tour historical landmarks, college campuses, museums, and memorials that they may not have had the opportunity to visit otherwise.  Each travel experience opens the child’s eyes to a world of possibilities which is further encouraged on their return with the help of parents, teachers, local businesses, civic officials, members of the clergy, and religious organizations. In addition to the education and exposure received while traveling, the youth distribute backpacks filled with school supplies, clothing, and essential items to less fortunate kids across the country. By doing so they learn the value of giving and understand that they can make a difference if they personally choose to.
Godparents Youth Organization encourages cultural awareness and character development, with the youth learning how to model social responsibility and celebrate diversity as they are empowered to begin the path of becoming tomorrow’s leaders.  As the youth travel across the country, lunch break is an anticipated necessity – which is why we are excited to be able to give Godparents Youth Organization restaurant gift cards for their many stops along the way.  Happy traveling!

Gilda’s Club

7.6.10
Gilda’s Club provides social and emotional support to anyone living with cancer – men, women, teens, children – and their families and friends.  Through a warm and comfortable home-like environment, they foster a supportive community where information is freely exchanged and members learn from one another how best to live with cancer.
Serving those in western Pennsylvania, Gilda’s Club is cited as an essential complement to medical care, providing networking and support groups, workshops, education, and social activities.  This free program is based on the belief that social and emotional support is as essential as medical care when cancer is in the family.  Volunteers and staff implement programs that recognize the wisdom and value of the person who is experiencing cancer, as well as that of family members and friends.
In order to support their work with those living with cancer, we were able to send Gilda’s Club gift cards to craft stores to purchase supplies for their many arts and crafts classes.

Gilda’s Club provides social and emotional support to anyone living with cancer – men, women, teens, children – and their families and friends.  Through a warm and comfortable home-like environment, they foster a supportive community where information is freely exchanged and members learn from one another how best to live with cancer.
Serving those in western Pennsylvania, Gilda’s Club is cited as an essential complement to medical care, providing networking and support groups, workshops, education, and social activities.  This free program is based on the belief that social and emotional support is as essential as medical care when cancer is in the family.  Volunteers and staff implement programs that recognize the wisdom and value of the person who is experiencing cancer, as well as that of family members and friends.
In order to support their work with those living with cancer, we were able to send Gilda’s Club gift cards to craft stores to purchase supplies for their many arts and crafts classes.

Celtic Cross

7.2.10
Celtic Cross is a Presbyterian Campus Ministry at Kennesaw State University that partners with students as they begin to navigate their new lifestyle away from family and friends.  Leaders often meet with students over coffee or a meal to discuss everything from dating to spiritual matters, and typically giving students gifts to encourage them throughout the semester.  To help offset their ministry’s costs, we were able to provide Celtic Cross with gift cards to coffee shops and bookstores so they can continue encouraging and caring for the students of Kennesaw State.

Treasures Ministries

6.28.10

We stumbled upon this beautiful story of redemption and growth and had to share it with you! Treasures Ministry is a unique, faith-based outreach and support group for women in the sex industry. As the only organization of its kind based in the greater Los Angeles area, their mission is to encourage women through the discovery of their value and purpose by providing spiritual inspiration, resources and referrals to professional services.

Treasures Ministries received gift cards to body care and makeup stores to help them purchase cosmetics and toiletries for gift bags that they give to the women they are building relationships with.  Such a wonderful message of hope and love.

Cornerstone Community Ministries

6.24.10

We are so pleased to have been able to recently partner with Cornerstone Community Ministries (CCM), located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. CCM aims to provide a safe and fun environment where youth can form trusting relationships while having their spiritual, physical, and emotional needs met in partnership with local churches and the community. Currently CCM operates as a youth center, with after school programs, Friday night events, cooking classes, and a skatepark.

CCM hosted a Card Me event with the proceeds going towards one of their invaluable volunteers who needed a helping hand. We were able to provide grocery and house repair gift cards to assist . Keep up the great work CCM!

Discover the Journey

6.3.10

Discover The Journey is a team of journalists and story-tellers who expose injustices facing children in-crisis and advocate for intervention partners until change is realized. DTJ filmmakers, writers, photographers, artists, and designers create and use story, media and art to expose injustices facing children and to use that media to advocate for change. DTJ partners with viable and effective NGOs and organizations found within communities to channel human and financial resources to impact people facing injustice.

Discover The Journey’s media, story and artistic professionals have worked in over 60 nations to bring light and hope to some of the darkest situations and issues children in-crisis encounter and inspire others to take action for the sake of love for these children.

Discover The Journey exists to SPEAK UP for children in-crisis by exposing injustices affecting children around the world through story, media and art, and to ENSURE JUSTICE for children in-crisis by advocating for intervention across cultures in Love.

They had a tour where they shared about who they are and what they’re doing. Gift Card Giver was able to give gift cards to help with tour expenses using gas cards, and restaurant gift cards.

Nuru International

5.28.10

Nuru International equips the poor in remote, rural areas to end extreme poverty in their communities within 5 years.  They study both the social and private sectors to identify the most effective methods of fighting extreme poverty in our five areas of development: Agriculture, Clean Water, Healthcare, Education, and Community Economic Development. They are finding solutions to huge problems affecting the vulnerable around the world.

They have a large group of volunteers that help keep them going.  They host dinner parties, fundraising and grassroots events, they donate media expertise, they do research, and some give goods and resources.  They use all the money they raise to directly help with what they’re doing, so they have had no way to thank the people doing the hard work of answering the questions surrounding poverty.  We were able to give them gift cards that they can use to thank the people who help them.  It is fun for us to be able to indirectly say thank you to people working hard to make our world a better place!

Love Wins

5.15.10

Chad Miller contacted us a couple weeks ago letting us know that he works with homeless in his area of Raleigh North Carolina.  His organization is called Love Wins.  He needed gift cards to purchase shoes, toiletries, medicine and other personal hygiene items.  It just so happened we had a lot of CVS and Payless Shoe Source gift cards.  We were able to ship them off to him to help him in the good work he is doing there in Raleigh.  We hope the gift cards help him continue to meet the needs of his neighbors!

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