Perhaps one thing on which we can all agree is that the world needs more kindness. This one attribute contains a quiet, gentle strength that has the power to heal, unite and inspire. Best of all, kindness helps everyone! It benefits both the giver and the receiver equally. And now more than ever goodwill, compassion, and generosity are in urgent demand. With an abundant supply as part of the human spirit, kindness is a gift that can be given freely. As a random act of kindness by the eGifter team, we bring you this Top Ten Gifts of Kindness list. Consider the ripple effect you can create with a single act of generosity. One never knows the impact a seemingly small (and free) act of kindness can do to inspire someone and alter the trajectory their life. Not just that — being kind makes each of us a better person, every time.
Top 10 List: Free Gifts of Kindness
Write down things you love about someone — and tell them
Cook a healthy meal for your family or friends
Conserve energy wherever possible
Serve a meal at a local shelter
Call a loved one on a video chat
Let a child in your life know that you’re proud of them
Post an inspirational, uplifting message on your social feed
Wear a mask in public and wash your hands when you return home
One More Gift that is ‘Kind of’ Free…
Our customers know that their free account at eGifter.com entitles them to extra discounts and savings. But in the spirit of helping others, the REGIFTING feature allows you be generous without any added expense. It only takes a moment to transfer a valued gift card to someone that may need it more than you.
Kindness is Free and Easy.
We can BE the change we wish to see in the world. Choose kindness. Act now.
The great thing about gift cards on Father’s Day is that they make gifting easy. No stress required — in fact, we encourage last minute shopping. First of all, we intend to spoil you with the coolest Father’s Day gift card guide presented here. Secondly, we also aim to spoil your father, grandfather and all the special dudes on your list. It does not matter whether he is soft spoken or rough edged, outdoorsy or geeky, a listener or a talker. Father’s Day is the one day to celebrate your love and appreciation for him. A gift card and warmly written love note will make his day. When everyone chips in for a group gift for Dad or Grand Dad, the joy increases manyfold. With hundreds of retail branded gift cards redeemable at shops, restaurants and adventures he loves most, we’ve got the perfect gift choice for you both.
The Coolest Gift Cards for Dad
This guide was specially curated for the wonderful fathers, father figures, and male mentors out there. A special note to the fathers-to-be: Get ready (and get some sleep!) Without further ado, we present the coolest Father’s Day Gift Card Guide, dedicated to procrastinators everywhere.
King of the Green
For the Dad who can’t get enough of the game, the best way to wish him a tee-riffic Father’s Day is with a Callaway eGift Card.
Chairman of the Lawn
Keeping the lawn in good shape can be difficult. We’ve got the gift that will get two green thumbs up.
Show Dad he’s the rarest of them all with a Landry’s eGift Card. Unlike traditional restaurant gift cards, The Landry’s Gift Card may be used at more than 600 Landry’s locations in the U.S., giving your Dad the flexibility of where to spend his gift.
Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May. Today, we honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. They gave their lives to protect the freedom and security of our nation’s citizens. No gift could be greater. Many traditions abound to acknowledge our fallen heroes. Parade marchers carry American flags past overcrowded sidewalks. Gold star families that visit cemeteries everywhere. The famed ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier, giving hope to grieving families. But perhaps more than that, there is no greater significance on Memorial Day than the playing of “Taps”. It signals the end of the fallen service person’s duty, marking our final tribute of gratitude. This musical gift of honor and respect touches us deeply no matter how many times we have heard it. This, a sincere tribute from eGifter.com.
“Taps” Is The Musical Gift of Honor and Respect
Every “Taps” Player Started by Learning a Simple Musical Scale
To think, the source of each somberly played “Taps” tune traces back to the musician’s interest in learning to play their instrument. Especially on Memorial Day, eGifter.com is proud to make available gift cards to Guitar Center, where fine trumpets, cornets and bugles are sold. Regardless of whether you have youth, or age, on your side, it is never too late to learn to play “Taps”. We hope to inspire the young and young-at-heart. Goodness knows our country needs all the inspiration and honor there is to have. “Taps” Is The Musical Gift of Honor and Respect
“Taps” is a Military Signal, Not a Song
Through the reliable source of Wikipedia, we learn that the words are not lyrics, but rather a mnemonic device. Here is a tidbit of information for the musically inclined about the melody of “Taps”. It is composed entirely from the written notes of the C major triad. This is because the bugle, for which it is written, is fundamentally limited, restricting the tune to just a few available notes. Interestingly, the musical gift of honor and respect comes down to B-flat, D, and F.
Let’s take a beat to remember the fallen heroes whose sacrifice means so much. To that end, eGifter Stories is proud to honor our service men and women with this tribute:
Day is done, gone the sun, Fromthelake, from-the-hills, from the sky; All is well, safely rest, G-d is nigh. … As we go … This we know . G-d is nigh
Romantic relationships are one of the greatest gifts that life has to offer. And those in-the-know, know that one of the best ways to express love is with romantic gifts. Turns out that gift cards, both plastic and digital, are a great gifting choice. This is especially true during the COVID-19 quarantine. If you have a special someone that’s captured your heart, enjoy our curated list of Top 10 Online Gift Card Ideas for Online Romance Week. While everyone knows that flowers, candy and candlelit dinners have been the gold standard, our customized selection of playful and endearing gift items will surely tug at cyber heartstrings everywhere. By purchasing and sending one of the gift cards in the uniquely romantic guide we assembled, you’ll show that your heart is in the right place. We bet that you’ll score the warm regard you seek as your online and offline romance matures and grows.
Top 10 Gift Card Ideas for Online Romance Week
Because your favorite love song is sure to generate some swoon, send an App Store and iTunes gift card with a personal love note including the song title and artist
Send a Hulu gift card and ask for a formal date to watch the movie Love Actually, which some say one of the greatest romance movies of all time
They’ll love a fully outfitted “sweet dreams” ensemble, delivered through a Macy’s gift card, because it inherently promises night after night of comfort and care
Perfume and cologne are always delightful and spicy gifts, and a Fragrance.net gift card lets them choose their favorite scent
Culinary classes are one of the best date night activities around. Groupon gift cards let them buy now, schedule later
Nothing shows your love like extra attention to the dog and cat. Gift cards for 1-800 Pet Supplies and Bark Box earns a special place in the heart of your flame, not to mention the kitty and the pooch
Guarantee a heart leap by turning memories into art with custom photo books made possible with Shutterfly gift cards
Giving gift cards to mothers and grandmothers on Mother’s Day is a natural choice, especially on May 10th, 2020 — the year of social distancing. While it’s best for us all to stay apart a while longer, we can still create closeness today. Sending a special, hand picked gift card wrapped inside a digital greeting card is a great way to deliver happiness and delight to Mom. At eGifter.com, the selection of well known and specialty retail brands makes for a true shopping experience — from the safety and comfort of your home. As thousands of gift-card givers already know, warm sentiment combined with cool gift cards can do a lot of hearts a-lot-of-good. On the one day each year reserved to honor to those that love US the most, we salute *all* the Moms with a curated Guide to Mother’s Day Gift Cards — courtesy of eGifter.com.
There’s Nothing like a Mother’s Love
When it comes to moms, one thing is for sure: A mother’s love is like nothing else in the world. The mix of unconditional love, fierce protection, self sacrifice and bursting pride help build the steady ground upon which our entire lives take shape. Moms quietly and powerfully instill valuable life lessons and values from our birthday candle moments – to reassuring conversations after disappointments – to boundary setting when needed. In the rear view mirror of life, we realize their every intention was borne from love and commitment — whether or not we knew it at the time. Just notice the popsicle stick photo frames and handmade crayon cards *still* on display. Through it all, Moms love us in ways we may not always understand…until we have children of our own. 🙂
Because Your Love Means the World to Her.
The eGifter Mother’s Day Gift Card Guide
This year, we bring you the 2020 eGifter Mother’s Day Gift Cards Guide with some very specific gift card ideas we know she’ll love. Honor ALL the mothers and grandmothers in your life, biological or not. Your words of acknowledgement, thanks and love — bundled inside a well timed gift card delivery — will mean the world to her.
Send some self-care to the ones taking care of everyone else. Give her a Bath & Body Works® eGift Card. Buy a $30 Bath and Body Works eGift Card and get a $5 Card Free! Promo Code: WORKSAP20.
Celebrate Mom with books she’ll love. Encourage Mom to explore new adventures without leaving the house, with a Barnes & Noble eGift Card
Activewear for her at-home workout. Give her an Under Armour® eGift Card so that she can keep hitting her goals in the latest and greatest gear.
A gift that’ll get two green thumbs up. Whether your mother loves to spend time in her garden, take on fun DIY projects or perfect her cooking skills, we’ve got your Mother’s Day gifts covered — give her The Home Depot® eGift Card.
Help her stay connected with those she loves most. Set-up a Group Gift, invite friends and family to chip in. Set the delivery time and let her choose the perfect gift with the eGifter Choice Card.
A Quiet Word for Days Gone By.
We may wish we could hear her laughter one more time. Or, sing that song together — the one she loved so much. Still, we can take a quiet, prayerful moment to tell her what she may have never heard us say: She was the best mother that anyone could ever have.
When the going gets tough, Americans rise to the occasion. Finding simple sources of comfort and ways to help have become standard orders of the day during COVID-19. These include things like finding the helpers (and being the helpers). Also, giving of ourselves (and gift cards when we can). We have a long way to go until all of the pressures of COVID-19 subside. In the meantime, everyone has a chance to help communities with gift cards. These include gift cards for groceries, medical essentials and tools for household repairs.
Help Communities with Gift Cards
COVID-19 is a Hardship. Everyday People Can Help.
The sage advice from Mr. Rogers, famed children’s television personality, would have us look for the helpers. It’s easy to find them. Just look for the drive-by parades through parking lots of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The outpouring of love, thanks and recognition to our homebound elders are amazing gifts, indeed.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
– Fred Rogers
Gift Cards Can Help You Make a Difference Today
If you’re searching for a way to give an affordable, meaningful gift to someone that can really use it, here are a few ideas to help communities with gift cards.
Find a local blood drive and donate much needed blood or platelets (search Red Cross locations)
Drop off food at your local food pantry. If you can’t get there personally or want to contribute to a food donation center at a distant location, you can easily deliver groceries by sending them a Target gift card or Walmart gift card
Encourage your local Chamber of Commerce to claim their FREE listing at OperationMainStreet.com. Doing so can have a dramatically positive impact on helping your local business community and their employees survive the economic downturn of COVID-19
Send a gift card to purchase a vegetable garden — deliver the gift card by text or email . With both online and in-store redemption, Home Depot gift cards and Lowe’s gift cards let them purchase seeds and starter plants for vegetables and fruit that can actually feed a family
Help them to help others! Donate fabric for masks by sending Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores gift card to the crafty people you know. The shortfall of masks for local businesses and healthcare locations can be built up with this grassroots effort.
Call the seniors and singles in your life just to say hello. It may be the only friendly, personal voice they hear today.
Please share your own story of optimism, healing and the human spirit.
We are so proud of our partners at Fanatics, the global leader in fan gear and licensed sports merchandise, known by avid sports fans and sports memorabilia collectors everywhere. Like other great retail branded gift cards available at eGifter.com, Fanatics.com checks every proverbial box when it comes to quality, selection, creativity and service. Their loyal base of dedicated players and spectators (plus those that love them!) is deeply engaged with the Fanatics brand as only fanatical sports fans can be! We always love serving Fanatics customers and we’re delighted to offer a limited time special promotion with deep savings while Fanatics gift card supplies last. Through 4/24/20, get a $50 Fanatics Gift Card for just $42.50 (promo Code: FANS420. But our ability to offer great deals and savings to Fanatics gift card customers is not what makes us proud at this particular moment. In our opinion, it takes more than great products, services, gift card distribution, customer service and engineering innovation for a business to transform from great to truly legendary, like Fanatics. To that end, Michael Rubin and the entire Fanatics team get kudos for demonstrating the manufacturing prowess and heart for which America has always been known. American pride, indeed. Without further ado, we bring you our Partner Spotlight: Fanatics Gift Cards.
Manufacturing Ingenuity: A Heroic Response
A Clear Gap Becomes Apparent
As the nation and the world watched the vertical climb of statistical rates of infection, hospitalizations and mortality, one of the most reported shortfalls in our ability to respond became clear. Healthcare workers were becoming dramatically limited in their ability to perform front line jobs due to a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). As we watched news footage and read news articles, the PPE deficit occurred as insurmountable.
If we can save even one life, that’s better than making baseball uniforms and jerseys.”
Enter Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin, who began to lose sleep along with the rest of us, wondering how to make a difference in the fight against the COVID-19 virus pandemic that continues to rock the world. On March 17, he heard about the shortages of tests, respirators and everyday supplies that created severe challenges for health-care workers. In the uniquely powerful position of running a massive fabric-based production operation in the U.S., Rubin would soon realize an opportunity in the making.
Pause on Jersey Production. Pivot to Masks & Gowns.
Like other countless numbers of manufacturing facilities forced to the sidelines due to restrictions imposed by social distancing, health concerns, governmental restrictions, supply chain limitations, depressed demand and more, Fanatics’ manufacturing operations were halted. Bottom line, no baseball season meant no production. From there, it did not take long for Rubin to realize that a million yards of fabric intended to manufacture baseball uniforms were lying dormant at the company’s manufacturing facility in Easton, PA.
One Million Masks and Gowns, Coming Right Up.
Said Rubin in a telephone interview, ““When the country is in need the way it is, it’s our privilege and opportunity to try to chip in in a small way. If we can save even one life, that’s better than making baseball uniforms and jerseys.” And so began the collaboration between Major League Baseball and its official jersey manufacturer, Fanatics, to address the shortage of protective masks and gowns for hospital workers. There are now about 100 employees working “extra distanced and in a very clean and safe environment” to make one million masks and gowns to donate to hospitals in Pennsylvania, with the hopes of eventually extending this to New Jersey and New York.” Fanatics and MLB are taking on the cost of production.
We Salute the Leaders and Innovators Among Us
There is no shortage of lessons to be learned from sharp and committed business leaders like Michael Rubin, CEO of our retail gift card partner, Fanatics. With an unprecedented need for solutions dictated by our very survival, we’re convinced that goodness and innovation will emerge, mirroring the bold initiatives taken by Rubin and those on his team.
It will take a set of complex business, manufacturing and human mandates, simply stated below, to lead the way forward.
Adapt
Pivot
Transform
Persevere
Care.
There you have it — our Partner Spotlight: Fanatics Gift Cards
With each passing day, the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks more and more havoc on our society, putting lives at stake and our country at economic risk. But in the face of it all, we’re also seeing good, old fashioned American Spirit rise to battle the blaze. Every day at the stroke of 7pm, people are stepping away from their living rooms and into the streets. Their cheers and thanks are directed at the healthcare workers who put their own lives in harm’s way caring for the sick and suffering, In our own response to the nation’s call for help, the eGifter team quickly conceptualized, developed and launched a solution that is having a dramatic, healing effect: OperationMainStreet.com. As a national initiative with local roots, Operation Main Street is an emergent technology solution offering real help to real people. Through the combined power of both search engine and gift card technologies, the Operation Main Street platform adds an economic spending boost to local communities and neighborhoods across the United States. Operation Main Street is a uniquely designed local business directory where search requests automagically return a list of stores in selected zip codes that serve *you* and *your* community. Read on to learn how it works and to see how good neighbors like you can literally save livelihoods in your own backyard. And, in turn, through spending boons through gift card sales, local businesses and organizations can stay in business to serve the community that loves them.
OperationMainStreet.com: A Free Searchable Local Business Directory Making Gift Cards Accessible
As a tech company literally located on Main Street (Huntington, NY), we feel the pain experienced by small businesses everywhere. Making sure neighborhood businesses can be easily found by local residents who want to save their favorite shops and restaurants is the promise delivered by the powerhouse business directory at OperationMainStreet.com. Together, we’ll endeavor toward the better days that lie ahead.
Neighbors: Save Your Favorite Local Restaurants and Shops
At this precarious time in our nation’s history, we’ve all reached the same conclusion: We must do our collective part to help small business owners in our towns and villages stay solvent, pay their rent and taxes, and employ salaried workers. Helping small businesses stay afloat and feed their own families is the task at hand, which will in turn empower them to pay the local taxes on which our towns depend. Keeping businesses going is a moral and financial imperative. It’s the only way that we, the people, will maintain access to food, essentials and services upon which we depend to keep our homes and families safe, well and active. Search local stores in the directory.
Never before has the phrase ‘Think Global, Buy Local” meant so much. With today’s stay at home mandate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, communities across the nation are struggling to keep their local shops and restaurants afloat until normal life resumes and beyond. Consumer spending is down and business mortality is up — a trend that can only be neutralized from a grassroots, local relief effort. That’s where eGifter innovation comes in. Gift cards are our lifeblood and we’ve found a way to provide real solutions in the ways that only we can. Thanks to a new initiative under the Operation Main Street umbrella, we warmly welcome LongIsland.com to the eGifter family. Now, Long Islanders can search local.egifter.com to find nearby restaurants, shops, studios, academies, barbers, beauty stores, coffee shops, music stores (and more!) The idea is to empower consumers to easily locate and shop at stores in local Long Island neighborhoods from the comfort of their home by searching a local directory of companies to find what they need nearby. We’ve engineered a way for Long Islanders to save the small businesses they love while keeping their homes stocked and their families fed. Introducing the Operation Main Street Local Business Directory.
Operation Main Street Local Business Directory
For businesses not yet on the searchable directory, signing up is simple, quick and free.
While each of us does our part to stop the spread of COVID-19 by social distancing, life marches on! Birthdays and anniversaries simply cannot be cancelled or postponed. The earth still spins, the sun still rises and special gift giving occasions take place every day. The human spirit is being tested and people are coming through with flying colors. The vivid and countless examples of incredible creativity, heartwarming surprises and ways people are showing their love are inspiring. Here at eGifter.com, we are seeing an uptick in digital gift card deliveries by email and by text. We’re witnessing the sandwich generation turn their elderly parents onto enjoying streaming tv gift cards. Colleagues are chipping in to buy grocery gift cards and take-out gift cards to sick families. Parents are going the extra mile to make birthdays special even when the party had to be cancelled. We are bolstered by the boundless human spirit exemplified by our customers.
COVID-19 Can’t Stop the Human Spirit
We are inspired to continue inventing new ways to help people celebrate life and take care of each other.
In fact, at this very moment it is 7pm in my own suburban neighborhood here on Long Island. For the first time during this crisis, our local firehouse alarms are sounding. My neighbors are clapping and cheering. It’s a moving moment that underscores the entire point. COVID-19 can’t stop the human spirit.
