Below you will find a roundup of gift ideas from companies who give back. In addition to detailing some products offered by the companies, each summary also includes a little bit more information about the way the company gives back so you can search for causes that are important to you that you would like to support this holiday season. I hope you enjoy shopping for loved ones and giving back in some way this holiday season!
Gifts That Give Back
Gifts for Adults
Every purchase of ONEHOPE Wine benefits various nonprofits and you can easily shop the site to find a bottle of wine that corresponds to a cause that calls to you! For pet lovers: Check out the Pinot For Paws Woof! Gift Box that helps shelter pets find forever homes. For a special girlfriend: Every purchase of this Froze All Day Gift Box helps educate 100 women on the risks and symptoms of ovarian cancer. For guys: A purchase of ONEHOPE’s Grill & Chill Gift Box provides five meals to a child in need. For a festive host/hostess gift, check out their stunning glitter wine collection!
These gorgeous watches benefit a variety of different causes and you can choose the cause you would like to support when you make your purchase! Whether you wish to help provide lunch to one child for two months, provide one woman with prenatal care, give school supplies to one classroom, provide financial literacy training for 10 women or provide clean-water access for one family for two weeks, every watch purchased helps make a difference. I love the classic look of the leather strap and the beautifully simple face of the watch.
Love Your Melon is dedicated to giving a hat to every child battling cancer in America as well as supporting nonprofit organizations who lead the fight against pediatric cancer. They sell a variety of cozy beanies, backpacks, hats, mugs and headbands.
Shop the St. Jude Gift Shop online to directly help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. 100% of proceeds after all related expenses benefit St. Jude Gift. The online gift shop has so many wonderful gift items, including beautiful throw blankets for the home, mugs and tumblers, a seersucker shoulder bag and an adorable teddy bear for kids.
Choose a pair of socks that corresponds to a cause or charity that is important to you! You can buy socks that help protect our oceans, fight hunger, provide school books to children, treat HIV and more.
Purpose Jewelry is beautifully crafted by young women rescued from human trafficking. Purchasing Purpose Jewelry helps to provide freedom, dignity and hope for these talented artisans. Purpose Jewelry sells everything from delicate necklaces and bracelets to earrings, rings, ornaments, mugs, jewelry dishes and more.
Curly Tail Coffee is a small batch coffee roaster located in Lower Burrell, PA and $1 from each bag of Bruno Roast purchased will be donated to New Hope Vizsla Rescue, a group dedicated to helping to helping vizslas in need. Each bag of Curly Tail Coffee is roasted on a made-to-order basis so that ultimate freshness is guaranteed. The Bruno Roast is a blend of coffee beans grown in Kenya, Nicaragua and Sumatra.
This company makes soft, comfortable baby-wearing products (I’ve heard great things about their soothe shirt!) and leggings and customers may choose how they want to help the company give back, whether they wish for their purchase to help support adoption, empower women entrepreneurs in Africa, fund conception assistance or invest in startups doing good.
Better Life Bags is a custom handbag company located in the heart of Detroit, MI and every bag is hand cut and hand sewn by a woman from this under-resourced community. The company’s mission is to hire women who have various barriers to employment to make their custom leather and fabric bags and give them a chance to succeed in life, family and friendship. Better Life Bags sells everything from gorgeous diaper bags and backpacks to crossbody bags and more.
Gifts for Children
The purchase of one beautiful Cuddle + Kind hand-knit doll helps provide 10 meals to children. The company has a goal to provide one million goals ever year and partners with the World Food Program USA (WFP), the Children’s Hunger Fund, Breakfast Club of Canada and WE Charity.
Bella Tunno works with Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, to connect people with food and end hunger. Every purchase of a Bella Tunno product gives one meal to a child in need. The company make everything from bibs and teethers to toys and totes.
This adorable plush toy is cuddly, cute and oh so colorful! For every Mini Candy Dragon toy purchased this holiday season, Squishable donates a similar Mini Squishable to a child in need through Delivering Good, a nonprofit dedicated to helping children, families and adults facing poverty and disaster.
Question of the Day
What is one of your favorite ways to give back during the holiday season?
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This is great! Thanks for sharing, we usually do Angel Tree and are looking for more ways to give back we can involve the babies in.
Angel trees are so wonderful! I’m so glad you participate in ones in your area!
Oh I love these! I definitely need to look into the wine one, what a great gift for friends. And I have and LOVE my Love Your Melon Beanie, I want one of the new ones with the pom now too.
I’ve been wanting a watch so I can leave my phone in one spot, and those are lovely! Love this list 🙂
I think a great gift (and something you’d have to do with the other person): http://www.charitycharge.com. It’s a MasterCard where 1% of your purchases go to the charity(ies) of your choice! It’s an easy way to give back. Really cool.
That’s awesome!!! Thank you for letting me know!
Thank you for sharing these gifts!! I love this post so much!! I give back during the holidays by taking tags off of the giving tree. I love those hand knit dolls!! I totally want to get some for my nephews, lol! Hope you are having a great week! Xoxo
This is always my favorite post of the year!! Such wonderful companies.
Wow I love all of these! Also, if I can feel good about purchasing wine to benefit myself and others I’m okay with that 😀
Thanks so much for sharing these Julie!! I’ve been wanting to change up the way I buy gifts instead of going straight to Amazon/Target/etc. (though it’s so tempting!) Hope you have a great day!
I look forward to this post every year! I’ve been looking for a gift idea for my Godfather and the socks are perfect! He loves to give back and knowing that these socks give back from purchase will make this gift extra special.
Hooray! Hope he likes them, Janay!
Thank you so much for linking to the St. Jude Gift Shop! I am a long time reader and St. Jude employee and really appreciate the love for our amazing organization!
Thank you for the work you do! St. Jude is such an incredible organization and I am just sad I didn’t realize they had an online gift shop until this year!
I love this post!!!! Such great ideas and lots of new products to me. I love the Love your melon beanies– really want one!
LOVE this post! Thank you for so many great ideas!
I usually take part in my school’s angel tree 🙂
Thanks for sharing these! all are such good ideas.
I love that you do this gift guide. Christmas is about so much more than just getting gifts, and I like that I can give back a little bit to those who need it.
LOVE Cuddle + Kind dolls!!! I can’t WAIT to buy one for a future baby 🙂 They’re so cute, and such a great cause. Great gift guide, Julie!
They really are adorable!!
You should take this sentence out since you are using affiliate links…..”No affiliate links are included in this post and I hope you enjoy shopping for loved ones and giving back in some way this holiday season!” The link to Etsy is an affilaite link. I understand the need to use affiliate links, but no reason to lie about it.
Oh my gosh! I truly didn’t mean to be misleading here at all and just made the Etsy link an affiliate out of habit since it’s a site that allows for affiliate linking and I’ve used it a bunch in the past. I didn’t look into affiliate programs or use them for anything else in this gift guide and I promise this was completely an oversight. I updated that line in the post though!! Absolutely did not mean to be dishonest!
It would have been more sincere if you had taken out the affiliate link, but gotta make that money!
your request specifically said to remove the part about using affiliate links (and you expressed understanding in why i use them) and that’s what i did. i was just updating the post from my phone on the go, so it was easier than changing out the link and honestly if someone bought a bag of coffee, i’d make like $0.70 and it wouldn’t impact the purchase price at all. i promise it wasn’t greed driving this one at all and i hope you can trust this.
What a great resource! I’m so interested in the causes behind everything, with a special place in my heart for ending human trafficking. Thanks for putting this together, I know it was a lot of work!
I have never heard of cuddle and kind hand knit dolls until this past weekend when I received one as a gift at my baby shower for our baby boy who is on the way. Such a cute gift and a great cause!! I love it! Thanks for sharing Julie!
Congrats on your baby boy!! <3 Best wishes for a healthy pregnancy and delivery!
These are some great companies!! I have a Better Life Bag and I love it!! Also, the beanies have been on my wish list for years! The ONEHope Wine and Mon Amie watches are defiantly something I’ll be looking into to!! Thanks for a great gift post!!
The watches are calling to me, too! They’re gorgeous!
This is the post I look forward to reading each year! I wanted to add that under the St. Jude’s page under collections and then donation gifts, you can buy things like oxygen for a day, a chest x-ray, books for the waiting room, or a last day of chemo party. St. Jude’s is great!
Thank you for adding this!!
YAY! Thank you for including ONEHOPE. Their wine really is delicious and I love the charities they give back to on a personal level! I’ll email you, and we can send you some fun wine for your holiday celebrations. 🙂 have fun with your girlfriends! I’ve heard such amazing things about Charleston.
I’ve been an intermittent reader for years, and I was thrilled to see this post! My brother was diagnosed with refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma three years ago, and through his experience, he decided to start a sock company that gives back to patients. The socks are all made in the US (North Carolina, in fact), designed with patients, and half the profits go to patients or charities of their choosing. I’d love for you to check it out: https://www.resilience.gives/
Thanks for sharing all these great gifts that go to good causes!
Great list! I love the Love Your Melon beanies, so cute for a cause!
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