2023 Holiday Gift Guide - Orange County Community Foundation

Gift Guide y a d i l o H

WINTER 2023

Table of Contents Akola

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Homeboy Industries

09

Angel Aid

11

Jungalow

12

Bracken’s Kitchen

14

Kherut / Savor

14

Canine Companions

06

La Lumbre Co

08

Corazon de Vida

05

Museum of Make Believe

04

Creative Identity

13

OneHope

10

Farmhouse Rescue Mission

07

Paw Prints in the Sand

06

Find Your Anchor

09

The County Project

09

Findlay

11

Tlacopan Cocina Mexicana

14

Free Wheelchair Mission

13

Urban V's Coffee

08

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Searching for the perfect gift? Check out these charitable gift ideas for everyone on your list! Shop items ranging from stylish apparel and jewelry to wine and gourmet catering options, all for a good cause.

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Museum of Make Believe Museum of Make Believe is dedicated to preserving the timeless art of storytelling within a uniquely creative environment unlike anything guests have seen before. Through entertaining and thought-provoking exhibits that offer a truly magical twist on the idea of seeing contemporary art, our dedicated staff and artists seek to inspire young and old alike with a warm feeling of something familiar and a reminder of childlike mystery; awakening feelings our guests may have forgotten and are longing to remember.

VISIT MUSEUM OF MAKE BELIEVE

MAKE BELIEVE IN A BOX

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Akola Akola is a globally-inspired jewelry brand, creating beautiful designs to lift up and champion women around the world. The name means “she works” in a local Ugandan dialect. Akola provides life-changing job opportunities through vertically-integrated manufacturing, employing women in Uganda to make each Akola piece.

VISIT AKOLA

UNLOCK-IT COLLECTION BRACELET

HEART TO HEART NECKLACE

Corazon de Vida Corazón de Vida (CDV) Foundation was established in 1994, and provides support and services for more than 10 orphanages throughout Baja California, Mexico. CDV’s mission is to end child abandonment by breaking the cycle of poverty. The foundation coordinates volunteer bus visits from Southern California and brings more than 800 visitors a year.

VISIT CORAZON DE VIDA

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Canine Companions Canine Companions provide service dogs to adults, children and veterans with disabilities and facility dogs to professionals working in healthcare, criminal justice and educational settings. Since their founding in 1975, the dogs and all follow-up services are provided at no cost to clients.

VISIT CANINE COMPANIONS 2024 PUPPY CALENDAR

Paw Prints in the Sand Paw Prints in the Sand Animal Rescue is an all-animal, foster-based animal welfare organization with a mission to give at-risk animals a second chance at life by providing medical care, behavior training, and loving forever homes. Since 2013, they have rescued over 500 homeless and unwanted animals.

VISIT PAW PRINTS IN THE SAND

PEACE LOVE DOGS T-SHIRT

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Farmhouse Rescue Farmhouse Rescue is a non-profit community that has created a sanctuary for both animals and humans alike. Together we are rescuing animals from abuse and inhumane living conditions to provide them with a safe, secure, and loving forever home. All of our farm animals engage in Animal Assisted Activities (AAA) to heal humans in need. Our Guest of the Farm program invites individuals suffering from terminal illness, loss, depression, addiction and more to spend time loving and interacting with our farm animals, making memories and friendships. The animals inspire our volunteers and guests to grow, develop, and give back to the community.

VISIT FARMHOUSE RESCUE

HAY GURL SOAPS

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COLD BREW

EL MÚSICO CANDLE

La Lumbre Co

Urban V's Coffee As a part of the CIELO community of entrepreneurs and a Blackowned business, Urban V's Coffee began as a passionate side-project and ultimately became a core business. An avid coffee enthusiast, Veronique Rae loved a good cup of coffee that reminded her of times making coffee with her grandfather and worked hard to learn more about brewing a cup that people would truly enjoy. Urban V's Coffee aims to take you, the home brewer or enthusiast on a journey through our world of coffee, community, and conversation.

VISIT URBAN V'S COFFEE

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La Lumbre Co is a small business member of the CIELO community of entrepreneurs. Their candles are made with the highest quality of all-natural coco creme beeswax blend with aromas inspired by Mexico. All purchases include a ready-touse noir matchbook.

Their detailed, smallbatch process provides personality and charm with every hand-poured candle.

VISIT LA LUMBRE CO

The County Project

Homeboy Industries

Find Your Anchor

The County Project focuses on telling the story of OC through art, fashion, culture and community.

As a CIELO community entrepreneur and a Black-owned business, the aim is to provide a platform for local creatives and trailblazers of different avenues to connect and network with likeminded individuals in OC.

Homeboy Industries is the world’s largest and most successful gangintervention, reentry, and rehab program. Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community.

Find Your Anchor is a grassroots movement aimed at suicide prevention, awareness and education. The premise is that each person needs an anchor. "Establish an anchor — a dependable, stable, secure base that you can hold on to, one that keeps you firmly planted, no matter what winds or storms may come."

VISIT THE COUNTY PROJECT

VISIT HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES

VISIT FIND YOUR ANCHOR

CORDUROY CAP

HOMEGIRL HOODIE

GOOD VIBES T-SHIRT

CA BRUT SPARKLING WINE

ONEHOPE ONEHOPE was founded by eight friends with a vision: to create exceptional products that inspire people to indulge while doing good. Today, ONEHOPE is one of the largest direct-to-consumer wineries in the world and has proudly donated over $8 million to local and global causes. The company supports global health care, provides meals for children, offers life-saving vaccines and provided forever homes to shelter animals.

Gifts include wine, coffee, sauces, and other accessories.

VISIT ONEHOPE

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CARD WALLET

Findlay Findlay designs timeless leather bags crafted mindfully with quality sustainable materials. Each bag is designed in their Los Angeles studio and handcrafted in small batches by our ethical factory partners in Italy. A portion of the profits are donated to liberate, educate and support victims of human trafficking.

VISIT FINDLAY

SLEEP MASK

ANGEL AID Based in California and operating globally, ANGEL AID currently supports over 15,000 rare disease families across 33 countries, with plans to connect and educate 3.5 million Raregivers™ by 2026.

ANGEL AID provides mental health and wellness services through sustainable psychosocial training, transformative retreats, and a caregiver network.

VISIT ANGEL AID

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HAMSA QUILTED COAT

Jungalow Jungalow started as a design blog in Justina Blakeney’s tiny, plant-filled living room back in 2009 and has since grown into a lifestyle brand. Jungalow aims to design, manufacture and source products made with love, care and with materials and practices that keep our communities and the environment in mind. From ceramics made in Vietnam, to textiles woven in India, to our wallpapers printed here in the U.S.A., they partner closely with vendors and artisans to produce quality products and make consistent efforts to look out for the people, communities and the environment along the way.

Every purchase also supports the Trees for the Future mission, with at least two trees are planted with every single order.

VISIT JUNGALOW

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Free Wheelchair Mission Free Wheelchair Mission is a humanitarian, faithbased nonprofit that designs and manufactures cost-efficient, durable wheelchairs for developing countries around the world. Free Wheelchair Mission has distributed nearly 1.4 million wheelchairs to people living with disabilities in 94 developing countries.

VISIT FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION

CHRISTMAS CARD + WHEELCHAIR DONATION

Creative Identity Established in 1996 by music therapist and professional jazz guitarist George Gilliam, Creative Identity is a non-profit therapeutic and expressive arts program in Anaheim and Laguna Beach that serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, helping them to achieve a higher degree of independence through therapeutic interventions, individualized instruction, education, and mentoring in music and the expressive arts, and prevocational skills training, onsite and in the community.

VISIT CREATIVE IDENTITY ONE-OF-A-KIND ARTWORK

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CATERING FOR A CAUSE

Bracken's Kitchen

K[her]ut's Savor

Tlacopan Cocina Mexicana

Bracken's Kitchen is the inspiration of Bill Bracken, a nationally renowned chef with over 35 years of experience in the hospitality business. Their mission is simple: through food rescue, culinary training and a community feeding program they are committed to rescuing, re-purposing and restoring both food and lives.

KHERUT / SAVOR leverages over 30 years of experience in the restaurant business to further Kherut’s mission in two important ways, serving our community with delicious & healthy food, and providing meaningful employment to women from atrisk communities.

Thanks to the help of the CIELO Community, Maria Torres built her own catering business where she serves traditional Mexican cuisine. Tlacopan Cocina Mexicana presents a diverse menu featuring popular dishes such as panbazos, chiles verdes, enchiladas, and much more.

VISIT BRACKEN'S KITCHEN

VISIT K[HER]UT'S SAVOR

VISIT TLACOPAN COCINA MEXICANA

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Gift of Giving Have a Donor Advised Fund at OCCF? Spread the gift of philanthropy this holiday season and present an OCCF Gift of Giving Certificate. The Gift of Giving Certificate can be awarded in any dollar amount so that the recipient can give to a nonprofit of their choosing. Spread love & philanthropy!

Request your certificate by contacting Thomas Moore at tmoore@oc-cf.org or 949-553-4202 ext 234 .

CONTACT OCCF TO REQUEST

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