Alternative Gift Mart 2023

Thank you for visiting our page! If you are making donations electronically, please fill in this Google doc form so the Youth will know how much they have raised on behalf of each charity. If you would prefer, you may write out checks to each charity and send them all together to the meetinghouse address (see bottom of page) and the Youth will take care of forwarding them to the organizations. Lastly, if you would like any handmade cards that we’ve provided in year’s past, please email AltGiftMart@chapelhillfriends.org with your request.

Our CHFM youth group recommends:

Interfaith Council for Social Service

The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service meets basic needs and helps individuals and families in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community achieve their goals. The IFC provide shelter, food, direct services, advocacy and information to people in need. They accomplish this through strong partnerships with volunteers, staff and those they serve. IFC programs include the Community Kitchen, Food Pantry, Community House (shelter for homeless men), Homestart (shelter for women and children), Support Circles and others.

Want to learn more about the Interfaith Council? Click here: https://www.ifcweb.org

Ready to donate? Click here: https://ifcweb.z2systems.com/np/clients/ifcweb/survey.jsp?surveyId=2&

Alamance-Orange Prison Ministry

Alamance-Orange Prison Ministry provides and promotes spiritual comfort and growth to the men assigned to Orange Correctional Center through services rendered by a full-time community funded Chaplain. The Ministry strives to better prepare OCC residents with skills, abilities and motivation to successfully reintegrate into their communities and families upon release and, where possible, provide encouragement and support to those receiving them. This is to be accomplished by connecting all concerned to available resources to be found at OCC and in the surrounding community.

Want to learn more about Alamance-Orange Prison Ministry? Click here: https://aoprisonministry.org

Ready to donate? Click here: https://aoprisonministry.org/give

Quaker House

Quaker House is a manifestation of the Friends’ Peace Testimony. Based in Fayetteville, NC, home of Ft. Bragg, Quaker House provides counseling and support to service members who are questioning their role in the military; educates them, their families, and the public about military issues; and advocates for a more peaceful world. Quaker House was started by Friends from the Chapel Hill and Durham Meetings.

Want to learn more about Quaker House? Click here: https://quakerhouse.org

Ready to donate? Click here: https://quakerhouse.org/donate

American Friends Service Committee

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) envisions a world in which lasting peace with justice is achieved through active nonviolence and the transforming power of love. Its many programs include war refugee relief, community peace-building, reconciliation and healing, immigrant rights, prison reform, economic justice, and ending discrimination in all of its forms.

Want to learn more about American Friends Service Committee? Click here: https://www.afsc.org/

Ready to donate? Click here: https://secure.afsc.org/onlineactions/XWqQkbUoVEiujw3q9Ok3LQ2?ms=WEB21NV

Heifer International

Heifer International is on a mission to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way by supporting and investing alongside local farmers and their communities.

Want to learn more about Heifer International? Click here: https://www.heifer.org/index.html

Ready to donate? Click here: https://www.heifer.org/give/donate-monthly.html

PORCH

PORCH programs distribute fresh and non-perishable food to families, pantries and schools. Thanks to PORCH donors and volunteers, kids and families throughout Chapel Hill Carrboro have healthy foods, nutritious snacks, and meals that would otherwise be unaffordable. This program also provides a monthly distribution of a variety of fresh food – like milk, eggs, chicken, fruits, and vegetables – to approximately 500 families with children in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro schools. PORCH partners with local businesses and individuals to provide healthy snack foods to children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, the district-wide pre-K program, and two local after-school programs.

Want to learn more about PORCH? Click here: https://chapelhill.porchcommunities.org/

Ready to donate? Click here: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E353731&id=1

Saving Grace

Since 2004, Saving Grace has been a a nonprofit organization dedicated to giving dogs in NC a new life after their old ones were lost to natural disasters or unhealthy situations. This organization also works to provide medical care for these dogs wherever they are. Saving Grace visits animal shelters look for dogs that need a “second chance”, and transports them back to facilities in Wake County. They then spay/neuter them and deal with any and all medical necessities. Later on they are able to adopted and become part of a loving family!

Want to learn more about Saving Grace? Click here: https://savinggracenc.org/

Ready to donate? Click here: https://savinggracenc.org/give/donate-now/

Save the Children

Save the Children is a global children’s right and humanitarian organization. Save the Children is working to help kids all around the world with better education, healthcare, child abuse and to protect their rights. This organization looks to help the most vulnerable children around the world.

Want to learn more about Save the Children? Click here: https://www.savethechildren.org/

Ready to donate? Click here: https://support.savethechildren.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1620&1620.donation=form1

Refugee Support Center (Carrboro)

The Refugee Support Center (RSC) is a volunteer-based organization established to facilitate the transition of local refugees to a new life in our community by providing them services, helping them access resources, and developing their skills to promote self-sufficiency. The recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Peace Prize, RSC serves approximately 900 local refugees, primarily from Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Syria.

Want to learn more about the Refugee Support Center? Click here: https://refugeesupportcenter.org

Ready to donate? Click here: https://refugeesupportcenter.org/donate

Haw River Assembly

The Haw River Assembly is a 501(c)(3) non-profit citizens’ group founded in 1982 to restore and protect the Haw River and Jordan Lake, and to build a watershed community that shares this vision. Our goals are to promote environmental education, conservation and pollution prevention; to speak as a voice for the river in the public arena; and to put into peoples’ hands the tools and the knowledge they need to be effective guardians of the river. The scenic 110 mile Haw River is at the headwaters of the Cape Fear River Basin, and includes the Jordan Lake reservoir, providing drinking water and recreation to NC. Tributaries of the Haw River and Jordan Lake flow through Guilford, Rockingham, Caswell, Alamance, Orange, Chatham, Wake and Durham counties. Almost one million people are part of this watershed–sedimentation, wastewater, and runoff impair its waters.

Want to learn more about Haw River Assembly? Click here: https://hawriver.org/about-the-river-2/about-us/

Ready to donate? Click here: https://hawriver.org/join-hra/

Equal Justice Initiative

The Equal Justice Initiative is an organization committed to ending mass incarceration and the use of excessive punishment in the United States. They do this by providing legal representation to “people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails or prisons.” Most of the work they do is in impoverished communities that are subjected to marginalization.

Want to learn more about the Equal Justice Initiative? Click here: https://eji.org

Ready to donate? Click here: https://support.eji.org/give/153413/#!/donation/checkout

Other Information

If you would prefer, you may write out checks to each charity and send them all together to:

 Attn: Alternative Gift Mart
 c/o Chapel Hill Friends Meeting
 531 Raleigh Road
 Chapel Hill, NC 27514

and the teens will take care of forwarding them to the organizations.

Happy Holidays!