Bar/Bat Mitzvah

With all these great ideas, the Steins will have to be keeping up with you!

~Thinking Outside the Gift Box~

• Many Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrants donate a portion of their gift money to a cause they are passionate about. Help them out and make a donation in honor of their simcha!
• Prefer finding your own cause? Try the Charity Navigator.
• Here are some other original ways to donate:
• Find community-based eco-projects such as climate change education, green technology, and reforestation through Global Giving Green!
• Support environmental research projects or protect endangered species and habitats through the Nature Conservancy and have an e-card sent while doing it!
• Buy carbon offsets in the bnei mitzvah’s name!
• Invest in the adolescent and invest in renewable energy. Get the 411 on socially and environmentally responsible investing! Then look into buying sustainable stocks or donating to environmental research companies, including Israeli efforts in alternative energy usage such as the Arava Power Company, the Israel Renewable Energy Cooperative, and other renewable energy businesses in Israel!
• Buy tickets to that rockin’ concert, musical or sports game that your tween would boast about at school for days.

~Material Gifts Rethought~

When the occasion calls for a gift you can hold, our material suggestions are sustainably bold!

• Fair Trade items make for ethical and beautifully artistic gifts that give a recipient a new perspective on the potential of “stuff.”
• Fair Trade Kippot
• Here are other sites we suggest:
  • www.fairtradejudaica.org
• http://store.gxonlinestore.org/
• http://www.taraluna.com/index.htm
• http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/home.php
• Also see: http://www.greenbarmitzvahs.com
• To accompany your present, view our environmentally responsible gift wrap tips