Description: FIND UNIQUE GIFT SOLUTIONS at the ALTERNATIVE GIFT MARKET

Every gift buyer dreads the thought that the gifts they give could soon be collecting dust in a closet. Worse yet-be returned for cash, or on the shelves of a pawn shop, or rack at the local thrift shop. Gifts that are given are meant to be appreciated! The solution to those fears has been found: it's called an alternative gift. By shopping at Arvada United Methodist church's annual Alternative Gift Market, your gift-buying will soon be enjoyable and informative.

An Alternative Gift Market offers a wide variety of gifts that are tax-deductible and support global and local humanitarian and environmental causes. Alternative Gift Markets are a concept of Alternative Gifts International, a nonprofit organization that offers donors the option to donate charitable gifts in the name of their relatives, friends and associates. The concept began in the early 1980's and has grown throughout the USA by hundreds of churches, inter-faith groups and schools hosting Alternative Gifts Markets.

An Alternative Gift Market in the Arvada area will be held at Arvada United Methodist Church, 6750 Carr Street, Arvada, CO 80004 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on December 6, 2009. For more information contact: Kathy Crisler at (303) 421-7113 or kcrisler@privatei.com.

AGI's main office in Wichita, Kansas, employs just 8 people, but raises at least one million dollars each year in this grass-roots approach to fund-raising. They operate on a 10% share of the gifts purchased and re-distribute and monitor the funds through more than 60 carefully selected humanitarian and environmental non-profit organizations.

Anyone who is unable to attend the Alternative Gift Market can receive a free catalog by calling 800.842.2243 or visit their web site at www.alternativegifts.org to order on-line.