Gifts That Give Hope Alternative Gift Fair

On Saturday, December 3rd from 10 til 2, Gifts That Give Hope (www.giftsthatgivehope.org/ Sarasota) will sponsor Sarasota’s first Alternative Gift Fair, hosted by Whole Foods Market.

Whatever our particular faith, December marks for most of us a traditional time of giving. We seek out gifts for friends, loved ones, and co-workers hoping our gift is exactly what they wanted.  What if instead of a candle, bright scarf, or piece of shiny jewelry you could instead honor those on your gift list by: feeding a child for a month of weekends, shelter homeless kittens & puppies or save injured seabirds, provide meals for an elderly neighbor, diapers for a baby, work boots for a homeless veteran, life skills training for an at risk teen?  Wouldn’t you do that if you could? A Gifts That Give Hope Alternative Gift Fair makes that possible.

At a Gifts That Give Hope fair shoppers are provided a shopping list from which to choose meaningful  "virtual" gifts for people on their gift list. In return, they receive an attractive card with a description of their gift that can be presented to their friend or family member on that special day of giving.

GTGH’s 15 non-profits participating in our 2011 Fair are : Habitat for Humanity Sarasota ~ Art Center Sarasota ~
Community Mobile Meals on Wheels ~ Bethesda House ~   Transition Sarasota ~  Harvest House Transitional Centers ~ Healthy Start Coalition ~ Animal Rescue Coalition ~ Warren Backpack Program ~ Resurrection House,Inc.~ Second Chance, Last Opportunity ~ Sailor Circus ~ Save Our Seabirds ~ Sarasota Music Academy ~ Daxton's Fish, Fishing for a Cure for Neuroblastoma
  
Online shopping begins Nov.28 thru December 20 ~ go to ; giftsthatgivehope.org/sarasota

For more information contact Diana Hamilton 941.879.2199

or Jeannie Kruidenier<Sarasotafl@giftsthatgivehope.org>