Buy Sweat-free clothing

If you like the NNPCW t-shirt, consider buying other sweat-free apparel online. Support factories that pay workers living wages in fair working conditions. Buy sweat-free clothing.

Purchase fair-trade coffee, tea and chocolate

The Presbyterian Coffee Project works with congregations and individuals to provide coffee, tea and chocolate that is "Fair Trade Certified." This means that profits from coffee sales are going directly to farmers growing the crops. This eliminates the middle coffee traders who give extremely low prices to farmers for coffee and then sell it to your local coffee shop for a much higher profit. Purchase fair-trade food.

Honor your family by supporting U.S.-Mexican Border Ministries

Presbyterian Border Ministries provides a number of alternative gifts you can give to ministries on the U.S.-Mexican border that improve lives and further the work of Jesus Christ. Buy health ministry education materials, Spanish Bibles and even cement blocks to help our Mexican sisters and brothers on the border. Support Presbyterian Border Ministries.

Buy jewelry made from church bulletins for friends

Women in Laredo, Texas supported by the Presbyterian Border Ministries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), have collected church bulletins from around the United States and made them into beautiful beaded jewelry. Buy jewelry.

Give "Greater Gift" this Christmas

A Greater Gift, formerly Serrv International, sells fairly traded goods produced by artisans around the world. Buying these gifts provides craft workers with the income to create better lives for themselves and their families. Items available online range from jewelry to garlic keepers to wind chimes. Shop at A Greater Gift.

Save the rainforest, feed hungry families and help others with Alternative Gifts International

Alternative Gifts International allows you to donate goods and money in honor of friends and family for a variety of projects in the United States and around the world, including shelter, medical assistance, hunger, education, peace and justice, sustainable agriculture and development. Buy a bike for a worker in Ghana, pay for AIDS and human rights training for a woman in Kenya or contribute to solar heaters for the Lakota Sioux here in the United States. Donate goods and money.

Purchase farm animals to help with sustainable agriculture

Give your mom a flock of chicks for Christmas! Through Heifer International, you can buy or contribute to the purchase of farm animals that will provide low-income men and women with the resources to support their families and educate their children. Purchase farm animals.

Find a fair-trade store near you!

Ten Thousand Villages is a non-profit program of the Mennonite Central Committee that brings fairly-traded products from around the world to markets in North America. Though you currently cannot purchase goods online, there are over 180 stores across North America. Find a store.

Give "Dignity, Not Charity"

MarketPlace is a leading textile Fair Trade non-profit organization that provides access to global markets for low-income Indian women by using design to bridge the gap between skills and markets. On each piece of MarketPlace clothing is sewn the words "Dignity, Not Charity," and these words are given life and meaning through the daily operations that involve artisans directly in planning, producing and managing MarketPlace products. Shop for Indian apparel.

Shop directly from artisans

PEOPLink is a U.S. based non-profit organization helping artisans all over the world sell their handmade items via the Internet and electronic communications while showcasing their cultural richness. Seeking to eliminate some of the costly intermediaries in the marketing chain, PEOPLink trains partner organizations around the world to take digital images of their products and promote them through the PEOPLink Web site. Shop directly from artisans worldwide.