Planet-Friendly Fundraising

Peanut brittle and candy bars aren’t the only way your kids can make money for their school, sports team or club. Here are three nationwide programs that turn fundrasing into an eco-conscious endeavor.
• Offering both online-only fundrasers and traditional catalog drives, Green-raising sends its participants up to 40% of sales from the green goods they sell, soy candles and fair-trade coffee among them.
• Twenty precent of every purchase from Global Goods Partners goes toward involved schools or groups. Sales also support the impoverished artisans who created the fair-trade toys, accessories and jewelry that appear in the catalog.
• The School Garden Company handcrafts its all natural body-care products, gives 50%of fundraising proceeds back to its affiliated organizations and donates all annual after-tax profits to school garden projects.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: The definition of Carbon Footprint: The impact you have on the environment from all of the energy, measured in carbon dioxide units, that you consume. This includes driving a car, flying in a plane, using electrcity and all of the energy needed to create the products and services that you use.
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