Today Gowanus Lounge is running a gift guide. But he’s got an interesting theme. Give the gift of good karma, support an organization that you believe in that’s doing good things in Brooklyn or the world.

Our focus in today’s first installment will be memberships in or donations to Brooklyn organizations or Brooklyn-based groups that would make cool holiday gifts. The guide is very selective and we’ve probably left out obvious choices or favorites, but here goes…

Added Value. You can’t become a member of Added Value–the
good people that run programs for young people in Red Hook and operate
a community farm and farmers markets–but you can certainly make a
contribution to the cause in someone’s name. They do good work. Helping
them would make a cool gift. Check out their donation page here.

Slope Street Cats. No membership here, but you can donate to Slope Street Cats,
a Park Slope group that works to control the population of feral cats
and links a lot of people to adoptions of cats. They run educational
programs and do a lot of good work and you can make a donation here in someone’s name as a gift and get a big deposit of Good Kitty Karma to boot.

Check in on Gowanus Lounge all week to see what other gift ideas he has.