Gifts That Give Back: 50+ Gifts That Give Back To Meaningful Causes

Café Momentum

Cook up your own creations with Café Momentum’s holiday gift boxes to support justice-involved youth on their path to realizing their full potential.

Women’s Bean Project

By mixing the art of creating delicious snacks and culinary delights with life and job skills training, the Women’s Bean Project sets women facing chronic unemployment on the path to self-sufficiency.

Bonton Farms

By sowing seeds in a garden, Bonton Farms works with disinvested Dallas neighborhoods to create sustainable solutions for their community. Experience the local flavors of this urban farm with their coveted honey butter, blueberry jam, or chai tea kits to support the power of growing healthy and delicious food to fuel community transformation.

Urban Ventures

A bag of coffee beans from Urban Ventures is a step towards preparing more under-resourced students in south Minneapolis for college or postsecondary education.

Thistle Farms

Looking for the perfect candle set or essential oil to offer healing and self-care to yourself during the holidays? Thistle Farms provides a sanctuary of hope to survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and trauma through holistic residential care, including employment crafting healing products.

Blue Monarch

With a recipe for recovery, Blue Monarch offers its residents a chance to rebuild their lives by making hand-crafted granola and other crafts with a purpose. Each bag of wholesome granola includes an enclosed photo of the incredible Blue Monarch baker and her story of addiction recovery and redemption.

Benevolence Farm

Benevolence Farm provides transitional housing and sustainable farming employment to women leaving the North Carolina prison system, offering shoppers various body care products and candles to invest in second chances.

Coalfield Development

Mountain Mindful, Coalfield Development’s social enterprise, offers soaps, mists, teas, and bath bombs made by people who face barriers to employment, including substance use disorder or former coal economy workers, imagining an environmentally conscious post-coal reality.

New Moms

Crafted by young moms forging new career paths while receiving job training and academic coaching, each Bright Endeavors candle lights the path toward stronger families and hopeful futures.

Mobile Loaves & Fishes

Browse the Community Art House and place an order for your own commissioned work. Mobile Loaves & Fishes operates a 51-acre master-planned community to restore dignity for those experiencing chronic homelessness. Its micro-enterprises empower individuals to transform their lives by putting their passions to work.

PeaceLove

Find peace of mind through PeaceLove prints and apparel. PeaceLove believes that creative expression inspires and heals as they work with people, families, and organizations throughout the country to improve mental health and quality of life through artistic expression.

Project LIFT

Work with Project LIFT’s in-house designers to create Adirondack chairs, picnic tables, bird nesting boxes, fire pits, or any other custom creation through their online form. Through vocational skills training and mentoring, Project LIFT empowers at-risk teens to replace negative behaviors with positive tools.

Bridle Up Hope 

Bridle Up Hope’s jewelry and accessories support their mission of empowering girls and women to overcome personal struggles through a horsemanship program rooted in holistic wellness.

Unshattered

Shop premium handmade bags that are just as unique and beautiful as the women who make them. At Unshattered, each handbag has a seam of gold thread to honor the women makers of the bags who are winning their battle against addiction.

Akola Project Jewelry

Akola Project unites women on two continents to create beautiful jewelry through its “full impact” supply chain. Women in Dallas and Uganda create raw materials, assemble jewelry, distribute finished goods, and sell jewelry, all at a living wage.

Project Free 2 Fly

Project Free 2 Fly bridges the gap between crisis recovery and sustainable living for women in rural Tennessee by providing mentorship and skills training, enabling participants to manufacture the beautiful handmade bags sold in Project Free 2 Fly’s online store.

POETIC

From stickers to sweaters to mugs, many of the colorful items in POETIC’s Etsy shop are designed by girls receiving comprehensive, holistic support after experiencing trauma.

UTEC

The one-of-a-kind cutting boards and tongs from UTEC’s Madd Love Market are handcrafted by young men and women in Massachusetts who are at risk of long-term poverty due to gang involvement or criminal activity.

Coalfield Development

Buying an artisan cutting board or piece of decor from Coalfield Development helps to rebuild the Appalachian economy. Coalfield Development’s social enterprise produces breathtaking wood products, large or small, ready-made or custom-built, all in the name of developing West Virginia’s workforce.

Thistle Farms

In addition to self-care products, Thistle Farms supports global social enterprises in their cafe in Nashville, TN and their online shop by providing a marketplace for artisan home goods handcrafted by people facing barriers around the world.

Treetops Collective 

Treetops Collective offers a wide variety of home goods, including pillows, wall art, and ceramic plates, which all further the vision of transforming communities into places of belonging for New Americans.

Mile High Workshop 

Every customizable pillow from Mile High Workshop is sewn, stuffed, packaged, and shipped by people receiving job training and finding community while transitioning from prison, addiction, and homelessness.

The Other Side Academy 

The Other Side Academy offers one-of-a-kind succulent arrangements made by Neighbors overcoming barriers and transforming their lives while residing in The Other Side Village.

Cara Collective 

While providing cutting boards and coasters to shoppers, Cara Collective is also providing job seekers a structured path toward long-term career success to eradicate relational and financial poverty.

Surf Skate Science 

Surf Skate Science provides students with hands-on learning opportunities, successfully pairing fun and education by providing purchasable kits so kids can learn the art of crafting their own skateboard and the science of kickflips.

The Phoenix

Get your sweat on this holiday season in customized sportswear by The Phoenix. The Phoenix is an addiction recovery program that leverages a sober-active lifestyle to build supportive communities and reduce the stigma of addiction to help people heal and overcome.

Adaptive Training Foundation

Adaptive Training Foundation bridges the gap between functional rehabilitation and adapted sports for athletes with disabilities, emphasizing holistic recovery to build up physical prowess while providing space for emotional healing.

Downtown Boxing Gym 

By creating an after-school academic and athletic program for under-resourced youth to learn and grow, Downtown Boxing Gym has supported the doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs of the future.

Row New York 

Represent Row New York during your next workout to support their mission of cultivating confident young people through competitive rowing and academic guidance.

Fugees Family 

Fugees Family provides specialized education to refugees and immigrants by centering the universal language of soccer.

ConBody 

ConBody’s mission to offer affordable and accessible fitness classes comes second only to their goal of de-stigmatizing the formerly incarcerated community and easing their reintegration to society.

Brilliant Detroit

Brilliant Detroit builds community around under-resourced parents and their young children to ensure future students, regardless of their background, are prepared to thrive in school and beyond.

Bridge House

Indulge yourself with truffle brownies or send a box to a friend! Danconias Truffle Brownies is owned and operated by Community Table Kitchen, a social enterprise of Bridge House that helps adults experiencing homelessness unlock their potential through employment, housing, and counseling support.

Hot Bread Kitchen

The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook weaves together bread recipes as unique and diverse as the women who make them. Hot Bread Kitchen is a bakery that employs and empowers immigrant women, providing them with skills to succeed in the culinary industry.

Women’s Bean Project

Women’s Bean Project also has a line of delicious sweets! By mixing the art of creating go-to snacks and culinary delights with life and job skills training, the Women’s Bean Project sets women facing chronic unemployment on the path to self-sufficiency.

DV8 Kitchen 

Fill your pantry with DV8 Kitchen’s baked goods and jams while supporting their efforts to provide second-chance employment for people in the early stages of substance abuse recovery.

The Folsom Prison Daybook of Despair, Grief, Hope & Art

Sit by the fire with a daily reading of poems by incarcerated individuals of the Inside Circle at Folsom Prison. Inside Circle believes in the healing provided by inspiration and creates opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals to reduce recidivism and violence in their communities.

Yoga: A Path for Healing and Recovery

Put your mind and body at ease with a yoga mindfulness audiobook. Prison Yoga Project brings trauma-informed yoga practices to thousands of incarcerated people around the country, emphasizing improved mental health and personal rehabilitation for every participant.

Hope Is Always Real

Dorris Walker-Taylor, Senior Ambassador at Thistle Farms, is no stranger to adversity. Combining her remarkable journey with powerful insights and inspiration, Dorris offers a glimpse at the way God uses hope to heal wounds, mend broken relationships, and transform lives.

Practically Divine

Thistle Farms Founder Becca Stevens’ book, Practically Divine, is an invitation to experience love in a new way and a testament to the concept that social change starts with creativity.

A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism

A motivational memoir by Antong Lucky, a formerly incarcerated man who transformed from founder and leader of the Dallas Bloods, to a practitioner of peace and nonviolence in the neighborhood he once helped destroy.

Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children

Luma Mufleh—a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a group of pre-teens from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan playing soccer in Clarkston, Georgia. Learning America traces the story of how Mufleh grew a group of kids into a soccer team and then into Fugees Family.

Going Right: A Logical Justification for Pursuing Your Dreams

Authored by Logan Gelbrich, the co-founder of DEUCE Community, Going Right offers readers a new model of decision-making in the pursuit of happiness, providing logical arguments for why taking the leap and prioritizing your dreams is always the best choice.

Freedom of Motion: Working Families and the Transportation Revolution

This book tells the story of a massive but little understood problem and the transportation business launched to solve it: On the Road Lending.

Life Changing Choices 

Co-authored by lived experience experts in foster care, Life Changing Choices offers insights into the failings of the foster care system while providing solutions of empowerment.

Say Yes to No Debt: 12 Steps to Financial Freedom 

Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. shares his keys to debt-free living by focusing on the spiritual, emotional, and psychological side of the problem.

Healing What’s Hidden: Practical Steps to Overcoming Trauma 

Healing What’s Hidden, co-authored by the founders of REBOOT Recovery, offers a fresh perspective on trauma healing with relatable true stories and practical next steps.

Is It Safe? 

Is It Safe? is a collection of essays written by students of Mount Tamalpais College, a college preparatory program providing intellectually rigorous courses to students at San Quentin State Prison.

Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All 

Authored by the founder of DC Central Kitchen, Robert Eggers tells the story of his career trajectory from nightclub manager to nonprofit executive, offering his personal experience as lessons learned and actionable advice for readers.

When We Walk By

When We Walk By, co-authored by the founder and CEO of Miracle Messages, explains the current crisis of homelessness through the lens of relational poverty while raising the voices of our unhoused neighbors and providing community-driven, evidence-based solutions.

Mobile Loaves & Fishes

Donate a housewarming gift and welcome new residents at Mobile Loaves & Fishes’ Community First! Village, where individuals experiencing chronic homelessness in Austin, TX are welcomed into a nurturing community and offered permanent, affordable microhomes.

Brigid’s Path

Donate supplies to help babies in the Brigid’s Path community who are withdrawing from prenatal drug use.

National Angels Love Box

The Love Box program provides fostering families (caregivers, children in foster care, and biological/adopted children) with community and holistic support. This wrap-around support enables caregivers to continue to do the important and meaningful work of being foster parents.

Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute

Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute (RMMFI) empowers creative-minded, motivated individuals with business ideas to realize their unique potential through entrepreneurship. Shop with the small businesses that have graduated from RMMFI’s boot camp.

Ventures

Shop virtually from an eclectic gift shop in the heart of Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. These products are handcrafted by more than 82 talented local artists and craftspeople- all Ventures entrepreneurs – who are working to improve their lives through small business ownership.

Rising Tide Capital

Shop with Impact. Browse through Rising Tide Capital’s Impact Shopping guide, a curated collection of entrepreneurs’ products ranging from fashion, food, décor, beauty, arts, books, and wellness.

Miry’s List 

These four different spices offer one way to support new arrival refugee families in 24 states across the U.S. as all proceeds go to supporting Miry’s List!

Diversability

Shop Diversability’s online shop to find a wide variety of merchandise – from totes to tees to mugs – that amplify the voices of people with disabilities and elevate disability pride.

Good Soil

Shop Good Soil’s Gift Guide to support Black– and minority-owned business owners crafting a wide variety of products, including Christmas ornaments, clothing, and mugs.