If you would like to get your children thinking about giving to others, try a Markmakers gift card.  Markmakers allows children to "spend" their finds on needs/causes such as vaccines, medicine, & eyecare,  or saving animals, rain forests & coral reefs.  Kids take their gift card, log on to the website and then "shop" for their charity of interest.  Children may spend their gift cards on organizations including:

• Doctors Without Borders
• Earth Force
• First Book
• Grameen Foundation
• Heifer Project International
• Human Rights Watch
• International Campaign To Ban Landmines
• Jumpstart
• Marine Mammal Rescue Center
• Miracle Flights for Kids
• Mr. Hollands Opus Foundation
• Nomadic Kenyan Children's Educational Fund
• Operation Smile
• One Laptop Per Child
• Performing Animals Welfare Society
• Playpumps International
• Save the Children
• Seeds of Peace
• Solar Cookers International
• Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation
• The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp
• The Hunger Project
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Wilderness Society
• Trees For Life
• United States Fund for UNICEF
• Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (North America)
• World Wildlife Federation