GIFTS THAT KEEP ON GIVING BEAUTY
These gifts make an impact on the giver and the receiver, with ripple effects that can make a positive differences for individuals, communities and even the planet.
This year, the BN Impact Gift List includes gifts of Ancient Tree that can help save the world, help both farmers and people who eat their food, gifts that help people in their careers, and gifts that help people gain financial independence.
You can gift humanity by donating to Farmer’s Footprint, a not-for-profit organization that supports farmers across the country by transforming chemically farmed acreage to regenerative agriculture.
Your gift will support the health of our nation’s soil, food, people and planet.
A century of monocrop farming and reliance on pesticides has damaged our nation’s once-fertile soils and our health. The rapid increase in pesticide use over the past few decades has coincided with this explosion of chronic disease.
Regenerative agriculture focuses on rebuilding organic matter and living biodiversity in soil, which produces increasingly nutrient-dense food year after year — while rapidly sequestering excess atmospheric carbon underground to reverse climate change.
Farmer’s Footprint is aiming to regenerate 5 million acres of farmland by 2025.
This film tells the story of Stoney Creek Farm, in Redcreek Falls, Minnesota, got healthy again.
Give an Archangel Ancient Tree. It will give your loved one a legacy and help save our planet.
There are trees that have survived for thousands of years, however, despite our planet’s perils. They are Champion Trees. The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has found a way to clone these trees, with the hopes that their clones possess the same survival abilities.
Archangel Tree archive (AATA) is planting Champion tree forests now at select locations around the world. One of AATA’s goals is to plant these ancient trees further north from their original habitats, to compensate for climate change.
Give an Archangel Ancient Champion Tree Sapling. AATA will plant one Champion tree cloned sapling on a protected parcel of land to grow on for generations to come. AATA will send your tree-loving loved one a Certificate of Planting via email.
If you’re feeling a bit more flush, Give an Archangel Ancient Tree Grove. AATA will plant a grove of 500 Archangel Champion trees to help clean your community. This includes the original cloning and seed-propagation to lab cultivation to packaging and shipping and planting, to land use agreements.
And if you can step up even further, Give an Archangel Ancient Tree Forest. AATA will plant a whole forest of 15,000 Archangel Champion trees. This includes everything from the original cloning and seed-propagation to lab cultivation to packaging and shipping and planting, to land use agreements, and planted sapling maintenance through the two-year viability period.
The Man Who Planted Trees, book by Jim Robbins, tells the truly fascinating and powerful story of David Milarch and his founding of the Archangel Tree Archive. This makes a wonderful gift addition for your tree-loving, planet-loving loved one.
And, of course, you can simply Donate to AATA. They are a gift to the world.
Learn more in this beautiful short film, directed by Michael Ramsey and in Beautiful New Forests Planted with Ancient Trees.
Give yourself the gift of a side hustle or new career with Park Place Payments, a new startup that promotes financial wellness.
Founded by best-selling author and advocate for women, Samantha Ettus, Park Place Payments trains women to sell credit card processing to local businesses (from their dentist to their hair salon).
The Park Place Academy free training course will set you up to join the Park Place Payments team of Account Executives. No payments experience necessary.
Career success is a gift. No one gets there alone.
Is someone you care about stuck in a career rut, dealing with an endless job search, or in need of a little inspiration to move forward? This year, ditch the boring gift cards, and give a gift that will change a life: The Muse Gift of Coaching.
The Muse, founded by Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, is an online career platform that helps more than 75 million people each year to win at work, from professional advancement and skills-building to finding a job.
Choose from the following services from The Muse: Resume Review, Job Search Strategy, Resume+LinkedIn Review, and The Muse 30-minute Career Q&A.
All of The Muse coaches are hand-picked and vetted to ensure that your friend or loved one will get the help he or she needs to find career happiness.
Squared Away, founded by Michelle Penczak, offers the gifts of time and peace of mind, two of the most beautiful gifts ever. A Squared Away gift certificate will give your loved one help with just about any task, personal or business related.
Founded two years ago, on Veterans Day 2017, the business connects highly skilled military spouses with people who need extra hands on deck. Squared Away has also partnered with Hiring Our Heroes, a non-profit organization that supports Military Members, Veterans and Military Spouses in finding meaningful employment.
A monthly plan can give access to to superstar virtual assistants who can wrangle just about anything you need, including travel planning, calendar management, inbox management, bookkeeping and expense reports, social media management, company marketing items/equipment orders, blog writing, personal meal planning, online ordering, finding handymen/service people to help with any project, project management, weekly check in calls, meeting minutes, event planning, and much more.
Read more about Beautiful Gifts in BN Wellness, Impact, Nature/Science, Food, Arts/Design, and Travel Daily Fix posts.
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