Put more love in your holiday greetings with cards that benefit charity

If you're like me, the holiday season might be the only time of the year when many of you actually pick up a pen and write out longhand well-wishes to your friends, family, business associates, and acquaintances. 

If you are one of those who enjoys sending and receiving holiday greeting cards, I hope that instead of picking up something treacly and generic at the Hallmark store this year, you'll buy cards that financially support one of your favorite charities. It's a great way to show your far-flung loved ones that you're not just thinking of them, but also about the greater good!

After the jump you'll find a wide variety of holiday cards that benefit an equally wide array of causes. I think everyone can find at least one organization they can get behind to do some charity work while also sharing the holiday spirit!

  

Big Easy Money

I spent Halloween weekend in New Orleans on a freelance production project, and as you might expect in a town full of drunken revelry, there seemed to be change scattered everywhere I went. Over the course of four days, I snagged 83 more cents to donate. Included in that total are an inordinate number of very new, very shiny 2010 pennies. That brings the found money fund to $26.52 year to date.

I half wonder if that's not a calculated decision by the mint, introducing newbies to circulation in a spot where they will quickly disperse throughout the country in tens of thousands of hung over pockets. If so, it's my pleasure to help put their plan into action!