Simplify the Holidays with Kokua Hawaii Foundation
Posted On: Dec 01, 10
During the holiday season the most rewarding gift of all is giving back to your community. Did you know the average person will spend $530 on gifts and $90 on greeting cards this Holiday Season? That’s a combined $560 million spent on gifts and greeting cards in Hawaii over the Holidays. If each of us took one out of every 10 gifts we buy, and made a donation on behalf of a friend instead, together we’d give $56 million to local charities. That’s enough to fund the average Hawaii nonprofit for 50 years. It’s also more than the combined budgets of all environmental nonprofits in the state.
Consider giving the gift of a Kokua Hawaii Foundation membership or making a donation to Kokua Hawaii Foundation in the name of your friends and loved ones.
Another way to support Kokua Hawaii Foundation this holiday season is to purchase advanced-sale Helemano Farms Christmas Tree Vouchers online for $40 from us!
$10 of that sale will be donated to Kokua Hawai’i Founation to support environmental education in Hawai’i schools and communities.
Support from people like you makes our work possible.
Make at least one Simplify the Holidays commitment, post an online journal about how you are simplifying your holidays and be entered to win This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 1 autographed by Jack Johnson! Five winners will be selected each week until Dec 31, 2010 (a total of 30 winners). A single grand prize winner will get a special “eat local” package including 3-month subscriptions to local vegetable delivery from O’ahu Fresh, local egg subscription from Maili Moa Farm, Gift Certificates to Town Restaurant and Tamashiro Market, and a “DASH of Aloha” cookbook!
Congratulations to this weeks winning Simplify the Holidays journals: