Microgiving.

On AustinMama listserv the other day, a Mama asked what other people did when they wished they could give leftovers to hungry people rather than letting them waste. She's asking about microgiving.

I mean, we'd all love to be Brangelina and build neighborhoods full of houses in New Orleans, adopt a housefull of orphans, give millions to various causes (don't bother googling, the first pages of hits are all the haters jealous that they can't have it all). Most of us barely have an extra $10 after meeting the demands of the exponentially increasing American standard of living.

My husband sent me a link to HopeMongers. A clearing-house of sorts for some of the kinds of projects in which we wish we could participate. Visit HopeMongers today. Or Kiva. Make a MicroGift to a project. Here's an idea-- make a MicroGift to each of the different projects, cut and paste the button each project has and create a gift card, and knock every person off your holiday gift list.