Gifts Honor Mom’s Nurturing Spirit and Give Back

Heartland Alliance Catalog Offers Mother’s Day Gifts That Uplift and Inspire

Chicago, IL (February 23, 2009)- This Mother’s Day, Americans can honor the women who have made a difference in their lives with a unique, charitable gift from Heartland Alliance that offers hope and meaning to disadvantaged women, children, and others struggling the most.

For $15, gift givers can provide a blanket and pillow to bring comfort and security to a refugee child. . For $50, gift options include a stocked backpack for a disadvantaged child so she will have the chance to succeed in school by being supplied with the essential tools needed for a solid start.

Special Mother’s Day packages are also available such as the “New Mom in Need” Bundle. This gift package includes a wellness checkup for a homeless newborn, and an infant care kit that provides a poor or homeless new mom with many essential baby items like diapers, bottles, and blankets. With the bundled package, mothers receive a special set of beautiful handcrafted heart-shaped notecards made by disadvantaged women working hard to develop important workplace skills to support their own families.

You can find these and other life-changing gifts in the Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog (www.heartlandalliance.org/mothersday) from Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights. It’s a great way for anyone to honor their mom or the special women in their lives with a gift that nurtures and uplifts others and makes a statement that provides both hope and inspiration.

For more than 120 years, Heartland Alliance has brought hope and healing to those in the most dire circumstances, providing programs and services that make a genuine difference to people in poverty and danger in Chicago and beyond. From trauma recovery and legal assistance to job training and affordable housing, Heartland Alliance’s efforts bring comfort to the suffering, security to the displaced, and opportunity to the disenfranchised.

By purchasing one or more of the tax-deductible, charitable gifts in the Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog, gift givers will be partnering with Heartland Alliance to further its work with people in poverty, refugees and survivors of violence, and the lost and forgotten.

How it works: Visit the Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog online at www.heartlandalliance.org/mothersday. Select gifts you want to purchase and make them in honor of your mother, wife, grandmother, daughter, or other special woman who has positively touched the lives of others every day.

For each gift, Heartland Alliance will send a beautiful card to your honoree with a personalized message from you. Last minute shoppers can purchase gifts online and an e-card will be sent through email.

Gifts through the Heartland Alliance Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog will not only show your recipient that you care and love them, but are choosing to give a gift that will help others as well.

About Heartland Alliance:
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights helps people who are threatened by poverty or danger improve their lives and realize their human rights. For more than 120 years we have been providing solutions – through services and policy – creating paths from crisis to stability and on to success. Our work in housing, health care, legal protections, and economic security supports more than 200,000 people annually, helping them build a better future.

Note to Media:
Bindu Batchu, director of marketing and communications at Heartland Alliance, is available for interviews. Hi-res images of packages are available by request. To schedule an interview or to receive images, please contact Megy Karydes at 312-560-2715 or via email at Megy@KarydesConsulting.com.