A Very Loud #GivingTuesday Gift Guide
Make your giving count by giving your business to organizations that move us forward.
It’s that time of year when people are giving gifts to the people they love. Here are some of our recommendations for how you can give twice: to friends and family and to the organizations, activists, and scholars making change in our nation. - Amber & Katie
Adult Apparel
Innocence Project Crewneck Sweatshirt from the Innocence Project - $42
Y’all Means All T-shirt from Human Rights Campaign - $29
Black Mamas Matter Fitted V-Neck Crew from Black Mamas Matter Alliance - $30
I’m With Her T-shirt from Assist the Resistance - $26.99
Planet Collection Sock Gift Box from Gifts for Good - $44.95
Every Mother Counts Sweatshirtfrom Every Mother Counts - $52
Gun Laws Save Lives T-shirt from Giffords PAC - $25
Every Mother Counts Trucker Hat from Every Mother Counts - $30
We Who Believe in Freedom T-shirt by Children’s Defense Fund - $20
Books
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi - $27
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo - $16.99
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - $26.00
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson from Children’s Defense Fund - $10.02
I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, Shelagh McNicholas - $17.99
A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory - $25
Fight Like A Mother by Shannon Watts - $25.99
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard - $19
For additional ideas, check out the Innocence Project’s reading list.
Kids
Coloring Without Borders coloring book for Families Belong Together - $24.95
Be Nice Kids T-shirt from Moms Demand Action - $25-30
Black Mamas Matter Onesie from Black Mamas Matter Alliance - $25
BOLD. COURAGEOUS. ADORABLE. Onesie from Giffords PAC - $20
Flora Fox & Mini Fox from Hazel Village benefiting Every Mother Counts - $74
Life on Earth 100 Piece Puzzle from ClimateStore - $13.99
Miscellanea
Love is Love Candle from Human Rights Campaign - $24
We the People Journal (5-Pack) from the ACLU - $25
Disarm Hate Tote from Everytown for Gun Safety - $20
Vote Sticker Pack from Vote Save America - $8
Birth Control Pack Lapel Pin by Gabriella Sanchez for Planned Parenthood - $11.95
Wear Orange 16 oz. Water Bottle by Wear Orange (Everytown for Gun Safety) - $12
2020 Calendar from the ACLU - $20.20
I Stand with Planned Parenthood Water Bottle by Planned Parenthood - $20
Peach Botanical Abstract Wall Art by Minted benefiting Every Mother Counts - $21-$246 (depending on size)
Be Nice Notebook from Students Demand Action - $15
Strong Women Get Things Done T-shirtby Giffords Pac - $25
#IDEFY Fist Decal from DefyNow.org - $1
Donate
Give to one of these organizations in your loved one’s name:
Black Mamas Matter Alliance - to fight for black maternal health, rights, and justice
Campaign for Youth Justice - to end the practice of prosecuting, sentence, and incarcerating children under the age of 18
Children’s Defense Fund - to ensure every child has a successful path to adulthood
Donor’s Choose - support a classroom project in honor of a loved one
Earth Day’s Canopy Project - to help them achieve their goal of planting 7.8 billion trees by 2020, to fight against climate change and deforestation
Equal Justice Institute - to advocate for equal treatment in the criminal justice system
Every Mother Counts - to lower the maternal mortality rate worldwide
Everytown for Gun Safety - to fight gun violence
Fair Fight - to fight gerrymandering and voter suppression
Giffords PAC - to fight gun violence
Immigrant Families Together - to provide legal aid and bail bonds for detained immigrants
Innocence Project - fighting wrongful convictions and getting the innocent off death row
Kids in Need of Defense - to provide legal aid for asylum seeking children
Philando Castile Relief Foundation - to assist families who have lost loved ones to gun violence
Planned Parenthood - to protect women’s health and rights
RIP Medical Debt - to wipe out people’s outstanding medical debt
Transgender Law Center - to support changes in law and policy so that all people can live safely and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression
Youth Climate Action Fund - to support action to fight climate change
More Wise Ways to 💸
Search for black-owned businesses to shop in your area and help build black wealth.
Labor411.org has a directory if you’d like to “Buy Union, Buy American” this season.
Browse charity wish lists to give an item to a favorite cause in someone’s honor.
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