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The Holiday Shopping Guide

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Be Good, for Goodness’ Sake:
Options for volunteering without breaking your shopping flow

1. The CambridgeSide Galleria’s holiday gift-wrap booth, which raises tens of thousands of dollars each year for homeless shelter Rosie’s Place, takes volunteers for three-hour shifts (Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from Thanksgiving to 12/12; every day from 12/12 to 12/24. 617-318-0218, rosies.org).

2. For those who can spare even more time, the Women’s Lunch Place on Newbury Street—celebrating its 25th year of providing homeless and low-income women with home-cooked meals—seeks volunteers who can commit two hours at least twice a month to assist with meal preparation or help women with résumés, housing applications, and benefits claims (67 Newbury St., Boston, 617-267-1722 x16, womenslunchplace.org). —A.L.

 

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Giving a Gift that Gives Twice: Cultural Survival’s Bazaars: A Holiday Shopping Alternative
Posted by CulturalSurvivalBazaar | Nov. 14, 2008 at 1:32 PM
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If your in the Cambridge and Boston Area I'd like to suggest that you shop at one of the three Cultural Survival Bazaars. Not only will you be purchasing beautiful handmade & Fair trade arts and crafts like jewelry, clothing, scarves, decor, and more but you'll be supporting a wide variety of projects that work with indigenous peoples to save their languages, lands, and traditions. Details can be found at www.cs.org

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