Mike Hord wrote:

>The kids on my list are getting stuffed toys from Ikea- Ikea
>donates $1 to UNICEF or Save the Children for each stuffed
>toy sold.  EVERYONE (kids too) gets a $25 gift card to
>kiva.org, which is (to my mind) the best charity I've yet seen.
>They facilitate microloans to entrepreneurs in less developed
>nations to allow them to lift themselves out of poverty by
>starting a business.
>
>You pick the business, and they repay the loan to you (or,
>to the people you gave the money to) at which point they can
>re-loan or cash out.
>

I like Mike's idea.

On my Dad's side of the family (grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, 
etc.) we used to have a small gift exchange.  More recently we've just 
been collecting the money we were blowing on the junk nobody 
needed/wanted and giving it to a family with a genuine need.  This year 
it goes to a woman who recently lost her husband in an motorcycle 
accident.  He left her with some small children with another one on the 
way.  He bought the cycle in an attempt to save $ on gas.

Oh, and we could also remember James and help suport the piclist.  :)

Aaron
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