Creative Gifts and Wrapping
http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/giftsandpackaging.html
Sustainable ideas for gifts, wrapping and packaging, and gift cards.

The Enterprising Kitchen
http://www.theenterprisingkitchen.org/
The Enterprising Kitchen, a social enterprise, enables women to maximize their individual potential. Under the CHOICES and The Enterprising Kitchen brands, we operate a light manufacturing company which produces specialty soap products and enables women from across Chicago to participate in an intensive, but individually oriented workforce development program which includes: paid employment, work and life skills training and a variety of other support services.

Women's Bean Project
http://www.womensbeanproject.com/
Each time you buy a gift item from the Women's Bean Project, you give in more ways than one. Your dollars support a nonprofit business dedicated to helping women break the cycle of chronic unemployment and poverty. Women learn marketable skills as they assemble our signature soups and gourmet food items. Individual coaching and supportive groups help our women gain the confidence they need to become self-sufficient.

Other sustainable gift ideas, submitted by members of Foresight's email list:

- Gift certificates to organic restaurants (e.g. members of Chicago's Organic Food Network, http://www.organicfoodnetwork.net)
- Memberships to local organic community-supported agriculture programs or buying cooperatives. See Local Organic Initiative, http://www.localorganic.org/)
- Gift certificates for: fair trade coffee (e.g. Intelligentsia), CTA/public transportation, movies.

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