About Us
ChristmasFuture empowers you to give a new kind of holiday gift—one that helps eradicate extreme poverty and changes the way we all think about giving.
ChristmasFuture launched on Nov. 5, 2007. Our website makes it easy for people to refocus their holiday spending towards the eradication of extreme poverty. Gift givers send an online gift card to friends and family. The gift recipient chooses from a database of poverty-eradication projects and then allocates their gift towards a project that interests them. This new way to give puts the power of change into everyone’s hands.
ChristmasFuture is about change—fundamental, meaningful, planet-shifting change. We’re helping bring together everyone to eradicate poverty by leveraging the goodwill of a powerful, passionate group: You. Change the world. For good.
Our Mission
ChristmasFuture exists to inspire and empower North Americans to refocus a portion of their Christmas spending towards strategic and sustainable projects in the developing world to help them eradicate poverty.
Our Vision
We want to create a legacy of change that will, in turn, renew North Americans’ experience of giving (and receiving) during the holiday celebrations. We want to bring the poorest of the poor in on our celebrations.
In communities of the developing world, projects related to health, education, economy, agriculture, infrastructure, gender, water and sanitation, and community development will be funded - giving people opportunity to achieve economically sustainable lives and a real vision for their future. The gifts we give today play a fundamental role in that future.
ChristmasFuture offers people an achievable opportunity to redefine our history with hope. By doing so, we will see the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime.
Our Mandate
We are driven to help improve the lives of the poorest of the poor. And in transforming the lives of the poor we transform the lives of North Americans also. One day at a time and permanently.
To create a giving opportunity and method for North Americans to help change the world. One gift at a time.
Values
Trust: We conduct ourselves in a manner that earns and deserves the trust of our stakeholders.
Dignity: We recognize and respect the dignity of all. Towards this end ChristmasFuture embraces the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Integrity: Our actions match with the words that precede them. We consistently adhere to the highest moral and professional standards.
Humility: We have an accurate view of ourselves- neither higher nor lower, and always showing respect to others. To us, humility is equity.
Accountability: We are fully responsible to our words and actions.
Diversity: We recognize and embrace the diversity of all of our stakeholders, regardless of race, religion, gender, age, culture, heritage, sexuality, and geography.
