8 Great Charities to Give To

The Year of Giving Brilliantly

By Penny Wrenn
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the December 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Fed up with holiday consumerism? How about anti-consumer holiday purism? Whichever side of the to-buy-or-not-to-buy debate you favor, this year we encourage you to donate half of your holiday gift budget to charity.

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